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  1. tanning stickers/masks material

    anyone know of a material that is certified for use on human skin? customer wants to make spray tan masks for designs on the tanning customers. i would think since it's in contact with the skin there is probably some sort of certified material you are supposed to use.
  2. Vinyl Slitter

    if you are doing it that often you don't have a supplier who can slit it for you? we use tyrrell tech for that. they have a slitter in their maryland office and we have them slit vinyl and lam for us all the time. if it's something they have in stock usually goes out with in a day or two.
  3. New XF-640 Banding Issue

    sorry to hear your problems. we have an xr and it's been great (so far) we also have 3 other roland machines and i have to say our dealers and roland have always been great when we have had issues.we deal with tyrrell tech and nazdar both are quick to get us up and running when we have had...
  4. color matching a gradient

    if there is a color issue she can't go by what she sees on the monitor (is her monitor calibrated correctly?) you need to give her a printed sample. when i have jobs with critical color matching i print a small sample of the job for the customer to approve. as far as matching the gradient if she...
  5. installer needed in dallas fort worth area

    i have a customer here in jersey who needs an installer or installers for a job in the dallas / fort worth area. 3600 signs, polystyrene 12" x 12" and they need to be hung from the ceilings in warehouses or like home depots (not sure exactly) if anyone is interested send me a pm and i can get...
  6. Outgassing, please help!

    wish the customers gave me 7 days for a job to outgas..... yeah sounds like a lot to me also. we print with roland eco-sol printers and when i do back lit panels i print with a double pass and just let it dry over night and it's fine. when in a pinch i have let it out gas for 3-4 hours and it...
  7. I don't always like working on the weekends but...

    anytime after 6:00pm during the week and the weekends are great times to work, if you need to get stuff done. during the day it's crazy how many interruptions you get. all business oriented of course but it just makes jobs that i have to do take longer. i guess that's why we get paid the big...
  8. Post & panel w/Custom shape top

    SSP103 3" Square | 10' Black Square 10' Steel Post with Finial this was the closest thing i could find, harbor sales has them (also have a 12' version)
  9. temorary wrap on powder coated metal?

    quoting a job to wrap some powder coated tables/displays but they are rental units so they want a material that could be removed. looking at 3M wrap materials and i know you can remove them pretty clean but i am concerned if it will stick ok on the powder coat. any ideas?
  10. strange printing question

    +2 we have had this happen also and since you are just taking the customer's artwork and printing it you don't even notice. i usually take the art they send and save it as a jpg so they can approve it to make sure nothing defaulted or dropped out and then when it gets in versa works...BANG big...
  11. Is there a source for 3mm trim caps

    harbor sales and N. Glantz
  12. Shout out to Merritt

    same here and we only get 1-3 large orders a year that we can't handle in house but regardless the service is always the same(great) pricing is good, quality is good and the turnaround is good. we had a real big foam core job one year. printed, cut and grommets. mike actually had his guys...
  13. our latest project

    they are cut on a clam shell die press with a heated platen and a steel rule die.
  14. vinyl zapper- orange-ish marks

    had to do more of the same trucks. cleaned the area first. put a new wheel on and made sure not to spend too much time in one spot or apply too much pressure. no marks at all this time thanks for the tips
  15. Vinyl for second surface lettering.

    +1 to that. if you weren't layering it you could get a way with the 651. it won't fail but it does shrink so if you layer the vinyl it will pull away and could mess up the graphic.
  16. our latest project

    thanks this is our first run at this. never could do it complete before but with the roland UV(white & gloss) and XR (metallic) we can do some crazy stuff now.
  17. our latest project

    make up box prototypes. printed on the roland XR with metallic print. mounted to paper and lexan. then die cut and assembled. all in house, including making the steel rule die
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