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Running some stickers on GF 219 6mil and I've checked 3 places and they are all out of stock with no ETA. One place said they've been waiting on their order since October 2024. Not sure where GF vinyl is made but the tariffs could also further compound their problems.

I mainly do die cut stickers and labels. Some larger stickers but I've never done anything this large for a trailer before. It's a bit out of my comfort zone, but I'd really like to get experience doing more car graphic work. What things should I watch out for when doing trailers like this? I...

So I had printed some sheets with Graphtec cut marks off my UV machine. Loaded them into the graphtech and sent the cuts from CM5. Scanned marks no problem but when it makes the first cut it's always 0.625" off. If I cancel the job and start it over it cuts in the correct place. I cannot seem to...

Been having this intermittent issue every couple of months. I'll start a print and within an inch of so into the print the black from head 1 drops out completely. I've tried a normal cleaning, hard cleaning and 2 x nozzle wash and it still won't print anything. Any suggestions?

So I acquired a new customer that wants to work with me. However all of their designs are made in Canva. Right away opening a PDF in illustrator the biggest issue I see is font's don't get embedded. However if you save the the file from Canva as a SVG it will outline the fonts so I can at least...

I'm getting some light banding in this background I'm printing. I saw it on another print that had an orange solid area. Seems to be with certain colors cause I didn't see it in some lighter blue prints I did a coupe weeks ago. I've checked my feed comp and adjusted it and my drop position...

Another ink price increase for Mimaki inks now. 6% up. They also are changing some of their shipping from their warehouses, if you get something drop shipped from them it'll be $150 if the order in under $2600. Apparently they are getting tooo many drop ships from their warehouses and it's...

Epson S Series Service - 0000200 This came up on my system this weekend and I looked it up and it's some kind of tube that needs to be changed out. However I am out of warranty and Epson said it would be $2800 for the service. I'm wondering if there are any independent tech in new england...

Noticed this on a couple of prints the other day. Where parts of the print with clear got puffed up in certain areas. Other areas stayed flat. Not the difference in ink height, but I can literally push the puffed up area down but it will come back. Not sure what would cause this. Any ideas? This...

Been looking for some thicker holographic or metallic gold vinyl 4mils or thicker. No sign vinyl as I need it for stickers. I want to run them on my UV printer and not laminate them so ideally something 6mils would be perfect, but I can really only find a regular holographic in 6mils.

Have a larger customer looking to get a shipping weight of a job I quoted them. How do I go about calculating the price on 3000 decals on material I don't have for quoting?

So I've started getting other jobs to quote and have a job of 3000 - 6" x 6" window clings signs for banks to put up for some temporary signage. (Think it's for a holiday) I've never printed on static cling and just did my first job with clear and white on my UCJV330 which worked fine. No issues...

I recently had a job I did with spot gloss and the sheets crackled a bit here and I mailed them off to the customer and when he got them they were really stuck together so much that some of the backing paper from the sheet on top stuck to the gloss on the sheet below. It may be a combination of...

Been trying to experiment with layered printing and I wanted to try a print with white and clear. However it cannot print white and clear in the same pass so it has to retract the print (after printing white & 4 color) and then do the clear. What's happening is the original print is fine then...

Now I've got my UCJV running and have started to use it. I forgot how incredibly slow print and cut machines are with cutting. (I printed small labels with a perforation line, print area was approx 48" x 23") Took 15mins to print and 25mins to cut. Not very ideal for production in the cutting...

Hey everyone, I'm in a pinch and need someone to help me with some UV printed stickers with spot gloss. Size is about 2.32" x 2.5" and they are a custom cut shape. Would just need them cut to shape or the backer can be square. (I was going to print them here on my UV machine, but I'm having...

Hey everyone, I was wondering who uses a UPS/surge protection on their printers, cutters, etc.. And if so what are you using for protection on these expensive items? We had a bad storm roll through last week and I was typing on my keyboard and got a shock through it from the lightning...

I'm still thinking about getting some kind of color management when I get my Mimaki UV printer in. I've only minimally dealt with i1 Pro but that was in a sheet-fed offset environment and that was years ago and I've forgotten all the things I had to do with profiling so I'm pretty much starting...

I'm wondering if anyone here is using the Onyx subscription model. Also open to possibly another software like Flexi, which also offers a subscription model. I'll be running a Epson solvent printer, a Mimaki UV roll-2-roll printer and one Graphtech cutter, possibly a Summa cutter but the Summa...

Looking for wholesaler that can help me with some small contour cut labels that have a raised spot UV finish.