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As long as you can a clear varnish there’s no reason it shouldn’t work, don’t remember what configuration’s you can set that printer up with but if you’re only white plus colors you might be out of luck

I've never swapped to pigmented inks but flushing sublimation ink isn't too hard to do but you do want to have a good amount of patience and at least some technical abilities to trouble shoot issue. The process you mentioned is pretty much it. Flush with sublimation flushing/cleaning liquid...

Hi, I have the same cutter and it’s a great cutter but mimaki’s documentation is horrible. There are 2-3 decent YouTube videos on settings it up. I think they are doing it on a cjv150 but it’s pretty much the same. It’s impossible to find and actual instructions anywhere though We never...

It seems like they sell a ton of them so I’d think they’d have a pretty decent machine. We have zero support options in our area so we went with a mimaki. $$$$ but crazily low maintenance and dependable

Like others said the shrinking of your edges is due to lower quality vinyl or lam. We use general formulations 203 line and it’s great. We pair it with either the GF matching lam or we prefer oracal 210g over the GF if it’s available as the oracal gloss is glossier. For something a little...

a Hiker manual is night and day better than the one you have now. We started with the same press you have and still have it as a a back up but the hiker is 10x smoother. You’ll see a lot of recommendations on automatic or pneumatic machines. They are great but really consider how your work...

fwiw we’re only using cold peel film. It’s just more consistent and usually peels after just a few seconds on most fabrics. We buy direct from one of the manufacturers and even they diplomatically steer us away from the hot peel unless we really want it. We’re in hawaii so it’s cheaper to ship...

I don't think you can weld most of the sublimated poly materials you're likely looking at. You can use a heat activated adhesive, maybe a HF welding system (common in clothing manufacturing) but people usually just sew them. I'm assuming that you're looking at soft signage, fabric banners, SEG...

We usually heat transfer them, screen transfer, vinyl or DTF and a few other screen printers bring their jackets to us to print. Basically you just have to make sure nothing melts when they are in the dryer or on the heat press. And then we don't screen print in house but sometimes you might...

We have a TxF300 and it would be amazing if we could convert our JV160 over. I'm not sure how it would handle the white ink though as our TxF is circulating ink so often it's a little frustrating but it also manages to have practically zero white ink issues and hums along happily all day long...

Are you doing fabric or typical 18oz vinyl pole banner. -Soardist is going to be sublimated fabric right? If so, yes it's light but there is no good way to keep it from fading after a while -If you go to pretty much any other online printer, Firesprint, 4over, etc I'd guess they can help you...

i've never seen instructions but you basically disassemble the plastic housing that holds the cable and the ink lines piece by piece and run a new cable through it. The plastic house links snap off using a small flat head screwdriver if I remember correctly. It's not difficult but it does take...

We used to use Quickbooks but are slowly transitioning to Printavo as our apparel side is growing and that's what Printavo is based around. Shop organization and billing for apparel printing. Printavo does a great job keeping track of payments and lets people put in a 50% deposit and keeps...

i personally have zero issues with using water based and eco solvent in a little past the expiration date but I’ve had several uv ink cartridges swell and harden in our lef20 Does sts no longer sell the ink for it? You definitely don’t want to use it if you’re under warranty though but...

I’ve used both and they are very different Inksoft is 100% geared towards apparel and really shines if you do a lot of team stores. They have a sign/sticker module but it’s really really basic. We demo’d the sticker/banner interface again a few months ago to see if it had improved but it’s...