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  1. Desktop printer for Vinyl media

    Can any desktop sized pigment based ink printer printers like Epson SC-P407 print on printable Vinyls like IJ-180c etc? Or do we need a special ink to print on such vinyl? Which printer do you use for designing your prints?
  2. Can any pigment based ink printer print on Vinyl?

    Can any desktop sized pigment based ink printer printers like Epson SC-P407 print on printable Vinyls like IJ-180c etc? Or do we need a special ink to print on such vinyl? Which printer do you use for designing your prints?
  3. Desktop Printer that can Print on Vinyl

    Any desktop printers from Epson or Canon that can print on Vinyl? Need it just for designing and sampling our design artworks.
  4. Suggestions Desktop Printer for Proofing

    We are looking to add a desktop printer for sampling and proofing our decals/stickers print designs on vinyl and presenting to customers. What desktop printers can print even on Printable Vinyl media? Any models from Canon or Epson that can print good even on Vinyl?
  5. Question Printing White colors

    We have a few designs with lot of pure white colors to make the graphics (vehicle wraps) standout. As white doesn't get printed and the base vinyl's white is what gets highlighted but the vinyl (IJ180 series) is not as white as we would like for these designs. So how do we print white colors...
  6. Suggestions Smoothest and whitest printing vinyl in cast?

    Looking to print lot of graphics containing lot of white colors for vehicle wraps. Vinyls with bluish white tones are not looking great. What's the smoothest and whitest cast film out there from brands like 3M, Avery, Oracal and even LG?
  7. Mixing 3M Vinyls with Avery overlaminates

    Can Avery overlaminates 1080z or 1060z be used on 3M 180 series films for car wraps? Anyone have any experience of mixing the 2 brands? Also how is performance of Avery 1080z and 1060z overlaminates in terms of UV and overall protection of the prints? (with any vinyl, not specifically with 3M...
  8. Suggestions Top Printable Vinyls from Avery, Oracal

    Looking for suggestions on some good printable Cast Vinyls from Avery, Oracal or even LG for High resolution printing with a good adhesive system that applies well on complex curves are smooth in finish. Will be printed on Eco Solvent/Latex. Looked at the 3M IJ180C like the pure white color of...
  9. Suggestions Any alternatives to 3M 8915 Ultra Matte overlaminate

    Have a lot of wraps which require an ultra matte finish. 3M 8915 Ultra Matte overlaminate is not available easily. Any suggestions on other Ultra matte laminate options from brands like Avery, LG or Oracal that would give the same smooth Ultra matte finish?
  10. Need Help Can you identify these 3M Vinyls?

    I have got two samples of some decals purchased online. They are 3M but unable to identify them. They are printed and laminated. Vinyl 1 : 0.25 to 0.27mm thickness including Matte Laminate. Adhesive side is Black. Liner 3M Controltac Graphic Marking System. Vinyl 2 : 0.24 to 0.25mm thickness...
  11. Suggest 3M Vinyl and Laminate for Ultra smooth decals

    We are looking to make some ultra smooth Matte finish stickers/decals in solid colors (pastel/neon etc) using 3M materials. Which 3M Vinyl and laminate would be the best suitable for this job if smooth matte finish and solid color output are very important requirements.
  12. How to convert a groups into layers with the name

    We have lot of artworks, almost more than two thousand, individually grouped and named for identification, which we want to convert into layers without losing their identification names. There is already a layer option to convert all groups into layers but the groups names are not getting...
  13. Maintain grouping in Flexi when opening illustrator files ?

    We are trying to open/import an illustrator file with around 50 individual artworks into Flexi but Flexi would place all of them only as a single group (check the attached image After importing.jpg) and then when we ungroup, it ungroups everything (check attached image After_ungrouping.jpg). We...
  14. Any Adobe Scripting Programmer here?

    We cut stickers/decals for phones etc and have a lots of different sticker outlines (based on lots of mobile phone models) that we need to cut in a single job. Currently we select and move each artwork as required from various master files into a single cut file into a boundary that represents...
  15. FC8600 will only cross cut on loading media

    My FC8600 started behaving strangely suddenly in between a cut job. No matter whatever what we do, it will only cross cut the material and doesn't cut anything at all. Even tried resetting the machine. Has anyone faced a similar issue with their graphtecs and any idea on how to resolve it?
  16. Identification tags / text labels for Artworks in illustrator

    We have thousands of artworks for our sticker cutting business and would like to tag them with their unique names and also put in a big text label for each of them like Artwork 1, Artwork 2 etc so that we can identify them even when we have hundreds of them together in a single cut file by just...
  17. Best Software or plugin for artwork nesting

    What will be a suitable cutting plotter software for artwork nesting? We have hundreds of outline artworks for stickers/decals that we need to cut everyday and Obviously to save as much material as possible, we try to utilize every inch of the materials by arranging manually it in the best...
  18. Graphtec FC8000 not cutting at set origin point

    Hi Folks We have got an FC8000-60 machine and no matter where we set the origin point on the material, the cutting begins only from the extreme right on the material. We have tried even the hard firmware reset of the machine but still the problem persists. Any help on what could be wrong and...
  19. Suggestions What printer and media to print these stickers?

    Hi Folks We have got a job which requires kind of stickers/decals to be printed and applied on phones etc like the attached image. The details of the print are not visible in this image clearly but the actual output has to be very clear and realistic. Just wondering what would be the best media...
  20. CB09U or CB15U Holder for Paint Protection Film?

    Hi, Just wondering what blade holder and blade (angle) should we be using for cutting 8 mil (0.2mm) Paint Protection film with some intricate cutting involved? CB09U (Blue Tip) or CB15U (Red Tip) and which blade (45 degrees or 60 Degrees)? Thnx
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