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Stick with spots as much as possible.

Your not going to compete as far as vehicle graphics, but small/large run stickers you bet you can.

I keep my DC3 mostly for its ability to print white.

Avery. White | EASY APPLY Avery 12YR 900 SuperCast Opaque Vinyl Film. White | Gloss Avery SW900 Supreme Wrapping Film EZRS ( this prints incredibly well! ) In fact all of Avery color change wrap films print really nice! I haven't run any of Avery's cheaper stuff yet. reflective - I still use Nikkali...

I stopped using IJ35c a few years ago, it shrinks way to much.

In fact I am done with 3m in general. Have been for 2 years, never been happier.

I still run mine and it prints like a champ... Avery's color change vinyl prints incredibly well. Summa just didn't market it right, that and the lack of info/issues and how to correct them just wasn't there. No one had answers. I did my best trying to cure some of that here with DG. Nice to hear fr...

Summa has even scrubbed all reference to these machines on their website. ( on the US site anyway...odd )

US link

https://www.summa.eu/en-us/summa-story

EU link

https://www.summa.eu/en/summa-story

Compare the two..

Muts

make sure you have cmy or cmyk ribbons loaded. open up color control ( i will assume you have this ) drop your file in and print. It will ask you if you want to use cmy or cmyk. Spot colors are something else, you'll need Coreldraw or Adobe Illustrator with summa spot color pallet installed. Muts Yo...

I am gonna say no. Not sure you would make it any easier either.

It's close to 700 lbs.

Welcome, I have no experience with 5100, but as far as reflective goes I have good results with Nikkalite 48000 Flexible Engineer Grade Reflective. Mind you it's old school reflective with a very aggressive adhesive. What I have been printing on as of late is Avery Color Change films mostly SW900 Wh...

New test. Hello!

Summa I think is done with their printers. My DC3 is now a 700 lb paper weight.

I have even had issues getting GOOD support for their cutters now.

Sad..

As far as clear is concerned I have never had any luck with the cheaper stuff.

I have used 3m 8518, 8508 with stellar results and avery 1460, 1360, 1060 with good results.

I have changed the head 3 times. - easy.
I have replaced the hard drive also. ( I now keep a copy of it, summa wants a ridiculous amount of money for it. )

Never had any other issues.

rename the dump file with .txt and open it up to see what it says.

What are you doing your design work in?

I am pretty sure you can print multiple layers using corel and the overprint option.