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  1. Tell me the story of your printers

    Hey everyone! I'm looking at all the pony's in my stable and trying to figure out which ones are on their last legs and which ones will gallop on with me. I did some googling to try and see if anyone had aggregated any information about how many feet their printer did before giving up the ghost...
  2. Sealing ACM panel signs?

    Where is cast not much more then calendared? In Canda 180 is over 1,000 and 35/40 is 500 a roll.
  3. Wayfinding signs with lots of small acrylic letters best production method to adhere?

    Sorry could you elaborate on this? For this project we have the acrylic letters which are backed with vinyl. Would you attach the 467 to the vinyl on the acrylic and leave it for a few days and then cut the letters out and then attach it the ACM?
  4. Wayfinding signs with lots of small acrylic letters best production method to adhere?

    What do you mean you "hogged off" the area around the letters? This is a pushed through acrylic? I'll look into tissue tape... haven't heard of that before. what do you usually use tissue tape for on substrates cut by the router?
  5. Wayfinding signs with lots of small acrylic letters best production method to adhere?

    Can't laser cut the aluminum composite as its PVC on the inside and that gets your chlorine gas. Could paint the back of the acrylic and laser cut at an outside vendor but then the adhesive is on the paint and I have no idea how well the paint would bond to the acrylic and the adhesive... Maybe...
  6. Wayfinding signs with lots of small acrylic letters best production method to adhere?

    yes its clear acrylic. the vinyl makes it their brands colour.
  7. Wayfinding signs with lots of small acrylic letters best production method to adhere?

    That's a good idea... I think the letters would be too small for the application. The sharp corners would end up rounded which would be a significant departure from the earlier set. I do pushed through acrylic for backlit boxes but they're always so far away from people the rounded corners don't...
  8. Wayfinding signs with lots of small acrylic letters best production method to adhere?

    Bit of a novel here but: I'm doing some wayfinding signage and the design client settled on Acrylic letters with back mounted vinyl (blue) mounted onto some brushed silver acm... we did a batch of 100 for one building and we used our router table to cut the acrylic letters to shape. There's 7-8...
  9. wall wrap material

    We use ij40 all the time... But after a year it takes the paper off the drywall. Used to do 180 but its too expensive for most customers.
  10. Dibond Box signs

    We've made several of these with 3mm aluminum composite. Do you have the means to make a v groove on these? I'd recommend using one that has a 0.3mm aluminum face so that it doesn't crack when its bent. Usually we v groove cut it on the folds and fold it around some 4x4 posts in the ground. We...
  11. Equipment Redundancy - Bad idea to rely on one printer?

    :( that bites... when our HP 570 was on the fritz we were funnelling everything thorugh the s80, stressed the hell out of the production team but at least we had something
  12. Looking for a poly material replacement

    No... not local anyways. Would have to navigate importing it but I'm desperate at this point so i'll try anything. only issue is it isn't for aqueous inks...
  13. Considering replacing our HP800’s with Epson S60600’s - Feedback please

    Had similar issues with the HP570, sent that thing to the dump. Bought an Epson 5070 and pretty pleased with it. It's louder I think than the 570 and the print tech complains that the area to cut it is poorly placed so its hard for him to bend down and cut it down there but other than that it...
  14. Equipment Redundancy - Bad idea to rely on one printer?

    I feel like this must be just dependent on where you are... Where I am, my Canon/Oce techs are MONEY. Always there quick and keep ol bessy running (arizona 450gt). My grimco service? Well they send someone and change everything out, don't fix it and I never hear from them again.
  15. Looking for a poly material replacement

    Yeah we've talked to ND but they don't seem to do much with aqueous medias. Tried some "natura" which is something similar to nekoosa but it was no bueno.
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