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No, it's like a regular channel letter, the face is lit but we don't like the trimcap. So instead of the acrylic going into a channel in the side (like on the channel letter coil) we routed a channel into the acrylic face that is wide as the aluminium side is thick and then bent and glued the...

Thanks for the replies The edge that goes over the face is...unattractive. Any ideas on how I could salvage the current batch ?

Hello everyone, Recently we've made an effort to improve our channel letters from what we had before. What we had before was a channel letter with an acrylic side so all of it was lit but we also had demand from an important client for non-lit sides. When we provided the version we usually...

Hello everyone. So I need to do a special project that requires me to laser cut a small sign out of 9mm acrylic. The problem is locally I can't get 8, 9 or 10mm acrylic in the color I need. My first thought was glueing 3x3mm sheets and cutting them in a single pass on our laser (100w). I...

That sounds complicated and expensive. We have white ink in our VS-640 and I would never do that even if registration permitted. Not sure what VUTEK charges for the white ink but knowing the price of their printers...probably a small fortune. The sublimation route seems to be the way to go...

Thanks for all the amazing feedback guys. So far we've printed them on eco-solvent and I've heard somewhere that they need to be done on sublimation. I've also done some research and found out that REXFrame sells the profiles and the fabric for these - http://imgur.com/a/btl8B unfortunutely...

Interesting. First time that I hear of this. The way they do it is definitely some kind of fabric but even with the fabric question out of the way there remains the issue of edge to edge lighting and no shadows and even lighting as well.

We've tried perfecting the backlights we do for quite a while now and it has never quite worked out perfectly. At first we tried doing them with backlight film which was pretty disappointing. After putting up with that for a while we decided to try out banner. To our surprise it was actually a...

We were in a similar situation a while back and I would have appreciated some help back then so I'm here to pass the wisdom along. Last year or so we had quite a few CNC jobs to do and outsourcing it cost not only quite a bit of money but it took very long. Something that we could do in half...

Same question here. I have more 50-60" (1.52m, 1.60m)+ rolls than any of the smaller ones.

To be honest I am quite...abhorred is the word I'm looking for I think with the reaction you gave this guy. Especially cause everyone has always been so good and kind to me whenever I asked anything, not matter how dumb it might have been. I just re-read the thread to make sure I didn't miss...

Looking forward to it.

Our space is around 5000 square feet. One part of that is production and the other half are our offices and so on. In the office we have laminate and in the production part we have tiles.

Yea like some others have said...I have no business telling you how to run your life or business but rush jobs are a bane, especially if it's a long term thing. When I have to deal with an outside provider, which tends to be offset printers mainly these days, and something needs to be...

Please don't get this the wrong way but I'm pretty sure that if you were printing it yourself you wouldn't give out deadlines that tight. We do that sort of thing for one or two of our big clients but pretty much anyone else just gets the it takes x days reply and that's it. AS far as your...

I've previously used Nutec inks both in my Roland and my production printer, solvent in the latter. In the market that I'm in it's impossible to operate with Eco Sol Max, it's simply too expensive. After having a problem with our printer and realizing that out dealer is retarded and that we're...

He said that he would sell it IF he found a way to develop it, which is a long shot

When in doubt...go with Summa! We have a VS-640 (that's a Roland) which has a build in cutter and it works alright but if I knew then what I know now, I would have gone with just a printer and a Summa.

Thanks for the reply. Since I've opened this thread I've decided on a 80w and I'm gonna get it from a dealer that I have a great relationship with. They're gonna service it as well and all.

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