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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...

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 already have a small CNC router but we are looking to buy a 3x2m machine to get maximum efficiency when cutting sheets (foamex and acrylic around here are 3.05x2.05m). One thing that we do a lot and would like to do on the CNC is contour cutting of printed and applied images on a substrate...

Hey everyone, We're finally looking to buy a laser, probably in the next few days. I don't know a lot about lasers (hence why I'm opening this thread) so I'm not sure which one to pick. From research I've done before I know that 80w would probably be ideal for our use. I've been looking...

We have a roll to roll laminator which we exclusively use to apply laminate to our vinyl, mostly for car wraps. I am curious if you guys use roll to roll laminators for applying vinyl to boards (foamex for example) instead of doing it manually ? We've considered doing it for a job once where...

Hey, In the last few days I saw a few videos from signs101 members and it seems that the substrate of choice on here is coroplast. In my shop I don't think we've ever used it, we always use foamex. Why do you use Coroplast and is there any advantage to using it compared to foamex ?

Hiya everyone, We currently have a bit of time on our hands and want to put it to good use. We are making samples of different types of signs, mainly to show potential clients. Currently we're working on 3cm foamex letters painted to high gloss, one version has indirect lighting while the...

We have a small CNC mill and we're in the works of getting a laser. One question I have though, that I can't find an answer to anywhere, other than "you don't" is how do you cut really small parts ? Here's some background to clarify the question. When we want to cut really small acrylic...

I've gotten some good info out of this community and since I have a bit of time I thought I'd contribute a bit. One of the biggest problems in our company was organization. As far as organization was concerned we basically worked on whatever we could remember on top of our head. Of course this...

What do you think, how did they guys make the letters in the attachement ? We have a very similar product but it doesn't shine nearly as well, and we're using the best and strongest LEDs we could get our hands on, and it also isn't as even as in the example below ? Any theories on how it's made ?

I am interested in the durability of eco-solvent for outdoor use, without lamination. Does anyone have experience with this and if so how long does it usually last outside ? I've talked with the ink manufacturer and they're telling me 6-12 months before the ink starts to fade. I also have a...

A few days ago we changed the ink on our VS-640 and the first thing I wanted to get out of the way was making the profiles. I have made profiles both for the 640 and other machines and I never had real problems with it...until now. For the Roland I basically follow this tutorial -...

Hello everyone, I'm a long time reader, first time poster here. A few months ago I got myself the VS-640 and I have been very happy so far. BUT, there's always a but isn't there. The two problems I have and to which I have not been able to find any solution are the following...

Hi everyone, Long time reader, first time poster here at sings101. Got myself a VS-640 a few months ago and I have two problems that nobody so far was able to solve. Just about to open a thread in the Roland forum in hope that someone will have a solution. Wish me luck!