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  1. Seeking recommendations for extra-long straight standoffs or extra deep edge-grip standoffs

    Good Morning Folks. We have a client who wants to sandwich a piece of sentimentally important glass between two additional pieces of 6mm clear acrylic, then mount it to a wall. I'm not 100% sold on this design, but be that as it may, am still tasked to come up with supplies for this idea. I'm...
  2. After market wiper blades - Aye or Nay?

    Good Morning Folks, I'm in a position where the company which normally services our Mimaki doesn't list old wiper blades on their site any more and I don't have an immediate local source. I am emailing them in the mean time to see if they still have a stash somewhere, but I do see third party...
  3. Dialing in cutting?

    Good Morning Folks, I am wondering if anyone has tips as far as how best to dial in the cutter settings to allow vinyl cutting to be more accurate at sizes 1cm or smaller? I am repeatedly coming away with mushy and/or incomplete corners. The font 50pt Arial, but is somewhat non-negotiable with...
  4. Garden plaque stakes

    Hi Folks, I have a client who's looking for a weather-resistant outdoor garden stake on which I can mount, angled to 45 degrees, a 3x3.5" plaque. We're okay with running the plaques here but don't have a good line on where to get the stakes (we only need 6). Anyone here know who I should check...
  5. Why do some PDFs print cyan in transparent areas?

    So this'll be the second time I've run in to this issue - a client sends us a PDF and areas which appear white in RasterLink's preview (as well as Adobe Acrobat, AI), but when printed these transparent areas end up printing as cyan. Is there a setting I can change to either a) turn this off or...
  6. Preferred Premask?

    Good Afternoon All. We've been putting together some truck trailer graphics here with calendared cut vinyl (MacMark 9800) and we're 0-2 on premask. Our usual premask (3M SCPM-3) has mostly failed to pull the vinyl off the liner. Thinking the age of the roll may have been a factor, we recently...
  7. Alternatives to Neenah Endura 225?

    Hi Folks. We don't run a heckuva lot of 10mil poster, but we've had some negative experiences with the Neenah Endura 225, mostly in that it is very sticky on the last 1/3-1/4 of the roll, to the point where our Mimaki could not pull stock off the roll while printing and the surface finish just...
  8. Is the EasyEdge corner cutter a rebrand of the KW Trio corner cutter?

    Background: We have a KW Trio corner cutter here which has served us well, but for some reason a part went missing (the blue pad) and I can't seem to find who we ordered ours through (and KWTrio doesn't seem to sell our model any more). Another recent post concerning corner cutting led me to...
  9. Finecut 9 / Illustrator 2022 incompatability?

    We just updated to Illustrator 2022 here yesterday and it looks like my plugins got wiped. Finecut doesn't seem to want to install when I point it to the most recent version of Illustrator... anyone else run in to this yet?
  10. Seeking pantone-matched acrylic

    Hi Folks, Can anyone here recommend a place for pantone-matched acrylic sheets in Canada? I'm near Toronto, if that helps. 1/8-3/8" thickness ideally, 4x8'? Customer is asking for this specifically and I'm at a loss as far as where to go. No immediate results are coming up when I check with my...
  11. Sign torn off - thoughts?

    Good Day folks, I need some guidance. One of our clients got in touch with us recently regarding a 2x3' 3mm alupanel sign (not made by us) which was (somehow) torn off a lamp post. I am weighing whether they need to make their material thicker and/or whether the fault is in where the holes were...
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