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Agreed. The problem designing in RGB would be where your printer can’t obtain the RGB colours that you sent on your proof. Even if designing in CMYK limits the available gamut to an extent, you’ll get what you see on the screen every time and no angry customers!

This thread worries me. No company will ever charge the same because everyone has different overheads, different amounts of work, different costs of materials, inks.. the works! Everyone will need to charge differently to make sure the job can (at the very least) sustain their business and give...

Did canon let you use your own materials? They may have let you loose but if they’re determining all the factors they’re going to make sure you’re using absolutely the best media/profiles they can. Whereas a regular John Doe might not be using the same materials.

Have you tried flattening the PDF? Sometimes we get problems on our digital machines that’s sorted with flattening the PDF, usually something to do with drop shadows/transparency. That or we tick the “composite overlay” button. Not sure if you have one of those! Would depend on softwarez

Reiterating what henryz said but if you switch from full colour to maybe 3/4 maximum, you could potentially just buy a cutter/software and then cut/weed your own vinyl. That’s about the only thing that’s probably within your budget other than a cheap dye-sub printer but they’re pretty limited...

Honestly my biggest worry is the guys that don’t have simple pricing nailed. I.e how much to charge for just simply making a sign or banner. Too many of them that simply google how much a big online company would sell them for, then wondering why they’re not making any profit. Why would you...

Reminds me of the customers that walk in and go “how much is a banner”. No mention if it needs designed, how big they want it.. just know they want a banner and you and your crystal ball have to do the rest.

Not sure this will be too much help but I saw a post about cloning your hdd and essentially putting the time back three months, extending the ink life. There’s also chips you can buy that extend the time you’re allowed to use the ink. Pretty sure the thread was “Oce Arizona tips #2”. Hopefully...

Good idea! Though i guess it’s just down to whoever is posting. I’m still relatively new here and tend to lurk mostly but I’ve seen “professional” sign companies ask how to print/cut a logo and/or work their own machines, a whole load of companies/sign makers that don’t know how to price their...

This one is a nightmare. It’s a cross between P22 constructivist line, Moxie S and futura black! Let me know if you find the actual font! Hope some of those help lol

Are they all one layer? Our cutter tends to just do it’s own thing if it’s all in one layer but if there’s multiple layers it’ll do them in order.

It looks like an impressive machine. I just still believe they have the price point all wrong, when they started marketing it they priced it in the gap between the 64” printers and the costly 128” superwides. At least 120k. Then mimaki brought out the UJV55-320 and filled that gap right up. Now...

Worth remembering these are the same customers that want their wrap to live forever and would come back in an instant if it came off too easy. Basically just tell them that the vinyls are meant to be permanent and thus are hard to remove. Emphasis on permanent. Would always either test the...

I’m in the UK and before any haggling they’re around 55k.

This. Not many in the market that are these specs for that cheap.

This is the easiest option. Any acrylic that works as dry erase might just be down to the supplier. Safer just to use the laminate.

Fully agree with Rick, though I’d suggest going for someone with print experience. There’s a fairly large gulf between designing and actually producing signs. You’ll have a hard time teaching someone fresh to the business how things work if you don’t know yourself.

If you’re ever flattening a placed object, make sure to deselect “convert all strokes to outlines” or any strokes will essentially be turned into a two sided object and will be cut twice (on either side of the line). This however seems more like the above, when you trace an object, even the...

Where are you putting these vinyls? Ours only ever curl up if the laminator is too tight

Don’t get me wrong it’s an impressive bit of kit, they just have their price point all wrong. 60k is superwide territory. I hear they’re bringing out a 3.2m version early next year. Twice the size but twice the price!