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We need a couple parts for our 410 that we bought used a couple years ago. I really don't want to spend five grand with CCI just for them to tell me that the parts will be another five grand. I would have thought there would be some other previously-departed units out there I could scavenge...

I'm looking at buying some equipment to bring back into the States. I know there are forms and declarations and Customs and such. But has anyone actually done this themselves and can offer some advice/hints/suggestions? Is it a doable thing for the average, semi-intelligent (I like to think...

I have a job that needs about 20' of orange 1" jewelite and about 10' of yellow. I really hate to order an entire 150' reel of both, knowing I probably won't use any more of it in the next ten years. If you have some and would be willing to ship it to me, I'd be glad to buy it. Thanks in advance.

We're a full-service shop, and we currently build our channel letters by hand. I'd like to move up to an auto bender, but $45-50k for a new machine is a pretty serious whack. I've done some research into brands, specs and such, and it seems that AccuBend is one of the top lines out there...

I've got a customer wanting to use blue day/night vinyl on the faces of white acrylic channel letters. The letters aren't very large, and would only take about 3-4 yards of the vinyl to cover them, but the smallest roll I can find available is a 48"x 10 yd roll. In all the years we've been...

I use an iMac for design, and we have a PC running Flexi and Production Manager and then a VJ-1624. I'm trying to find a way to be more consistent with colors across machines. We seem to get a lot of color shift between my monitor and the production system monitor and the printer, so I'm...

We did some small panels to slide into a reader board for a local fast-food franchise. They're both on 3/16 clear acrylic with printed/lam'd clear graphics backed with white translucent for their social media logos and then plain black cut vinyl for the outside. The breakfast one is...

We've never had full, true legal 'contracts' for our lighted work, beyond the initial quote and invoice covering "50% deposit, balance due upon completion". I'd like to get more thorough, but was hoping somebody might have a contract they already use that I could go off of instead of starting...

I use Illustrator CC on a Mac for design. Our production computer is a Windows machine running Flexi 11 that we got when we bought our 1624. I have a PMS swatch chart that I printed on IJ35 hanging on the wall for my own reference using the ICC profiles loaded from Mutoh when the machine was...

There's a "Shopbot Bench-Top CNC Router, Model A6497-9412KTG, table with vacuum system" listed on a bank auction about an hour away from me. Though it's 4'x8' table, so I dunno why the listing says bench-top. I've been doing some research and looking around online to find it's capabilities...

We've recently become UL-certified for building channel letters and cabinets. We've been doing it for years, but our city just started requiring UL certification. SO, we did the online 'training' and then the area rep came in for our orientation. He rattled off the tests we have to do to our...

I don't know what I might've done or what I changed, but the little flags that pop up when you mouse over a color switch or pathfinder tool or whatever, have disappeared. When I mouse over a swatch in the palette, the mouse is just there. No little flag that says 'PMS 251' or 'Dark Red' or...

A large factory-type company I've done sign work for before has just been bought out and new company wants, along with the normal W9 and C of I, our written Drug & Alcohol Policy (which I have) and our written Safety Policy, which I do not. We're a 5-man shop. We use general safety policies...

So we've undertaken a project for the local Dairy Queen where they want to print the logo LARGE for the side of a crew cab F250. The truck is metallic dark gray, and they want the colors to be pretty muted, and show the metallic gray through the color...kind of a faded effect. We have tried...

I'm printing with a 1624 and the profiles set up and loaded by the Mutoh tech when he set up the printer. We generally print on IJ-35C and get good results. We're having problems printing onto General Formulations clear vinyl for use on polycarb for lit faces. There is no profile specifically...

Any sites out there where it can be bought, or anybody done one? I can't find anything anywhere.

I was using a company out of Alabama for the last 8 years, but they've suddenly just disappeared. I usually sub out quantities of 25 or more, and screen printing seems to be where the big price breaks occur at the 50-100-200 numbers. Flatbed printing is competitive on full-color jobs, but on...

We build channel-letters in-house using .040 and .063 all the time, and have built halo-letters. But an existing customer is opening a new franchise business, and the corporate office specifies in their signage sheet that the halo letters for his sign be built with .080 faces and .063 returns...

We build channel-letters in house using .040 and .063 all the time, and have built halo-letters. But an existing customer is opening a new franchise business, and the corporate office specifies in their signage sheet that the halo letters for his sign be built with .080 faces and .063 returns...

I've got the wrap vinyl, IJ180, but it's not really 'rated' for plastic. We don't do any graphics for ATVs or motorcycles, so I don't have any of the hi-tac super-agressive yet conformable material, and I'd really rather not order a full roll of it just for this one job (it's an existing...