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  1. Best way to cut Maxmetal, E-panel, DiBond ACM?

    for square cuts we use a circular saw with a fine tooth blade or our panel saw and custom cuts use our esko router.
  2. Small printer for hang tags

    qty and size would be good to know? with the grommet already installed will creat a problem for most printers. agree with silk screening, build a jig to hold multiple tags and away you go or you could get a small UV printer for thicker rigid materials and build a jig to hold them
  3. non-curling banner material

    have a customer we make banners for approx 48" x 72" they have from a frame they already have. it's a T frame. i am printing on a ultra flex 15oz smooth, block out banner material apparently when it hangs the end curls. i figured just make a pole pocket and they can put a dowel in to keep it...
  4. Looking for a "good" X-Acto knife?

    never go wrong with a good toe knife
  5. Slow cutting of Tapered Stickers

    is the file line solid or does it have multiple anchor points?. i have tried to cut things like that with a customer supplied file and for what ever reason it had multiple (and when i say multiple i mean like 15-20) anchor points in which case the plotter takes longer to cut that. it some reason...
  6. Everyday Vinyl

    we use oracal 3651 as our standard or general purpose vinyl. but prices are going up on everything right now so rather than find a cheaper product that might not work as well just raise you prices to cover it. funny thing i noticed right now is everyone is in a hurry for their jobs but no one...
  7. Declining jobs based on moral/ethical grounds

    we pretty much will make what you pay for. i guess maybe we draw the line with printing recruitment forms for isis or the Taliban or the nazis ? but we print dem or rep signs, we have printed banners for the porn convention. actually did these magnets for a college kid for one of her classes...
  8. Illustrator FINALLY increased canvas size by 10x

    one thing that always baffled me was that photoshop also made by adobe would go larger on the art board and most of use these programs hand in hand but then illustrator didn't have that capability.
  9. Flatbed Printers

    if you could find a roland LEJ, used in good condition in your price range that might be the way to go. it's not fast but quality is good and easy to use. it's hybrid printer so you can print on rigid material up to 1/2" thick and also roll/flexible media. another important point already...
  10. Metal Overlam For Acrylic Letters

    try this company https://www.wrisco.com/
  11. UV Printer & Prints Making us Sick

    unfortunately being in the business for over 30yrs i don't smell the inks or chemicals any more, just normal every day..haha we silk screen uv inks all day long, run an fugi/acuity uv printer and roland LEG printer with no issues as far as smell. the silk screen department has the dryers vented...
  12. Cutting problem

    we usually die cut our adhesive because that's what our applications require but we have done this on our plotter (roland) for small qty's. based on what you are showing could be a few things. first not cutting deep enough, blade cutting too fast and getting the adhesive bunched up and the blade...
  13. 10m coroplast hole punch recommendation

    i have to drill all kinds of material here (aluminum, composites, acrylic, sintra, styrene....and so on) and Gino is right just put a piece of wood top and bottom and you are good to go.
  14. Roland TrueVis VG2-640 Issues

    we had all kinds of issues. took roland and our vendor almost a year of rebuilding our VG-540 before it was working properly. printing issues, cutting issues, tracking issues, head/cap top issues, pinch roller issues, then i believe there were also a couple of recalls. i told them to come get...
  15. Vinyl removal from hell

    i did an awning a few years ago and the customer went out and got some special paint and painted the awning himself because it's wasn't something i felt i could do successfully. but he actually did a good job, did multiple coats and the new vinyl stuck great. still holding up after two years. i...
  16. Advice

    based on the wrinkle you show in the pic i would say that's not acceptable for what it is but why couldn't you just patch the 20 or so small areas or at least the ones that look as the o ne you showed us. on the rare occasion i have had something like that happen i have been able to just replace...
  17. Back-ordered materials- what are you having trouble finding?

    for us it's been random as well but probably the most common are cast vinyls. we did have some issues with acrylics and poly carbonates but that seems to have gotten back to normal
  18. signs 101 website issues?

    no the coconut Carmel cookies (like the somoas, girl scout cookies)
  19. signs 101 website issues?

    anyone else getting error messages when posting or searching the site? "oops we ran in to some problems"
  20. high temp vinyl?

    customer wants to wrap his food cart. wondering if anyone has any experience with these? trying to find the best material that will handle the high temps? was going to use oracal 3951HT currently using that on paving dump truck bodies (recommended for high temps from orafol) but having trouble...
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