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Hi Folks, I've just been given a Newing Hall 400AU, but no software. The owner was a patternmaker who has retired. They used it to engrave names or serial numbers in items he was making patterns for - but when he changed business partners 10 years ago, the old one took the ancient PC, and...

Has anyone successfully cloned their latex 260 hard drive to a fresh hard drive that did not come from HP ? I'm trying to get more life from ours as I still have 27 ink carts, 12 heads, and 3 head cleaning carts to use up, and the economy, with Covid, does not allow for a new machine purchase...

Hi All, 8 years ago a customer wanted some 20mm thick clear acrylic, with a half-depth 1" rebate all round, and a design lasered on the bottom. We have 20mm white, black, and opal, but not clear. The job did not warrant buying a big sheet. So had a go at gluing two 10mm sheets together. And...

(P.S. That should be CG-SRii, not STii, but it won't let me edit the title) Firstly, it's a lovely plotter, and Finecut, operating from Win 7 was great too. (problems getting Win-10 to load Finecut, but that's no great issue- we just use an older PC instead.) But we bought the plotter with...

Quick question please: I read recently that X3 will NOT work under win 10. I'm wondeirng why? Before I sound cheap, old habits die hard and I'm happy using X3 on a few legacy XP or Win 7 machines that drive the plotter, router and lasers. I also have x5 and 2019, and in order prefer the two...

Our 26500 had been running fine for quite a while. Today the RIP stopped. (Onyx PH 12) Reloaded the RIP, and reinstalled the printer inst file. The RIP queue is happy, but on configuration, it cannot connect with the printer when you click 'test'. However if I open up a web browser (Firefox) I...

Today I needed to make 4 black rectangles, 48" wide x 5-1/2" deep. They had a bit of yellow text on them. I printed them OK, on self-adhesive oracal vinyl, allowing 1/4" bleed all round, thank goodness! When I went to trim them, despite the 48" being left to right on 54" vinyl, the edges had...

I wonder if I can ask for some help... HP latex 260. I keep getting this "Maintenance #3 contact support" message and it won't print what the RIP sends. It is waiting to be fixed. I can to a head test print ok. Looks good. The funnel is now clean. The waste bucket is new . The air filter and...

Hi Folks, This should be an easy fix, but I've been a Roland plotter used for 20 years, and understand them. We bought a lovely Mimaki CG-130 FX II a few months ago, and it came with Finecut (v8, I think), which I installed and got it going. It does a terrific job of plotting most things, BUT...

Hi Folks, I've had two cyan/ltcyan heads spit the dummy in a couple of months - nothing appeared wrong, but the L25500 was convinced they were no good, so I changed them both. The printer was happy, but the 2 new C/LC heads were constantly printing bandings getting lighter. Head cleans and...

For 3 months it's given us the 1.2:10 error message, which it says is a faulty Ink Supply System circuit board. However, if you ignored the message, it still always printed OK. Yesterday, it decided partway into a job that the substrate was loaded incorrectly, although there was 5 metres left...

After umpteen head cleanings, I'm happy with the shades of red/orange/yellow that the L25500 is printing. Ditto with the blues. Here is the odd thing: I make a box in Corel - X3 or X5 - no difference, in CMKY. Fill it with Corel process blue straight off the color menu - which equals cyan...

Despite a head cleaning, and head realignment, if I create a box of CMYK 0,0,100,0 (ie 100% yellow) and save it as a PDF from Corel Draw, then open it into Onyx Production House RIP, the yellow box prints with a dirty darker hue - not 100% yellow alone, but it seems to have murky black spots...

Hi Folks, I have an L25500 problem: nearly half the time I got to switch it on, it won't turn on. (via the button on the console at the front right. Am I the only one with this issue? Sometimes unplugging the 15 amp plugs at the back and replugging them helps - other times it does not. Any...

Hi Folks, after buying an HP L25500, (60"), the seller used Onyx as a rip and was keeping that for their next printer. Flexi was promoted as an affordable RIP for the HP L25500, but I cannot find any drivers in it, only one driver in Flexi for an L65500, which is extra narrow at about 1 metre...

Hi Folks, after buying an HP L25500, (60"), the seller used Onyx as a rip and was keeping that for their next printer. Flexi was promoted as an affordable RIP for the HP L25500, but I cannot find any drivers in it, only one driver in Flexi for an L65500, which is extra narrow at about 1 metre...

I'm a bit of a 'fix it yourself' person wherever possible. Burning out servos and drives diagnosing the problems and getting them going again with our cnc router has been an interesting adventure- and no problems in the last 18 months, touch wood! That was all a servo control system. However...

Hi Folks, I'm looking at buying a SP540V. It's set up with bulk ink system CISS since new, and with the Aussie Mimaki inks since new, not the Roland inks, but it's always been like that. The problem I have it is's 9 hours drive away, and the seller has not got a clue how to get it to print...

To all Letterheads & friends, I've just received a message from Liddy Drane. She says: Hi - there is no gentle way of telling you this but Dave came off his Harley last night and unfortunately didn't survive. Our family and friends here in Oz have been wonderful but like me are trying to get...

HI all, our router used to have a knife & pen holder. That's long since been lost by a former owner. I'm keen to get a plotter blade holder going again for it, for plotting big signs through the coversheet of dibond etc. (the router has a 2.0 x 3.6 metre bed) The old one used to have some...