Recent content by jharler

My first year of higher education taught me a valuable lesson. In the computer lab, near the end of the hour-long class we spent working on a document, someone kicked a power strip and killed power to all the computers. Most of us lost all of our work. Lesson learned. Save early and save...

My version of Onyx doesn't have the option to print color -> white -> color on my s80600. I have Spot -> Color, Color -> Spot and Color and Spot. I'm in the US.

In my case, the linear rail that the print head travels along was slightly warped, causing the print head to go out of alignment in the middle of its travel. It was very slight and if I wasn't cutting stickers with small borders between the graphics and cut lines, it probably would have gone...

I had similar issues and it turns out it was my printer not printing perfectly. Eliminate that possibility first. I would suggest trying to get your test file printed with a different printer and see if that makes a difference. I was pulling what little hair I have left out trying to diagnose...

I order my laminate 1" shorter than my vinyl. That gives me some leeway on drift. Makes laminating much less stressful.

No, they replaced my printer.

I had a similar problem, where cuts in the middle of larger sheets were off. Turns out my printer was the culprit.

I prefer Substance vinyl for my stickers. As far as curling, as mentioned above, make sure you're letting the ink out-gas and also check the tension on your laminator. If the laminate is being tensioned more than the vinyl, you may have curling when the pressure is released once the sticker is...

The only time I've ever encountered my Graphtec FC9000 not complete a cut like this is when the outer rollers were too close to the cut. I always make sure to leave 2" of padding to either side of the print and keep the outer rollers around 1/2" from the edge of the vinyl.

I'm happy with my Epson sc80600 with white ink. They claim lamination can take place after 6 hours, but the training tech told me for most jobs an hour is fine. The colors are fantastic and the white works really well. I've heard that the non CMYK inks can fade over time. I've only had mine...

I went with the Epson SureColor s80600 (ecosolvent) with white and have been happy with the white printing I've done with it. It's very low maintenance, just needing the white cartridge shaken on a daily basis. It does go through the white ink faster than the other colors for the cleaning...

Paper can cut more than just our fingers:

There are two power cables, one for the printer itself and one for the heater. Both of them need plugged in.

There's no setting to adjust this as far as I know. Is there a reason why you don't use a roll? It seems it would be more efficient and less wasteful.

JBurton does what I do. I have some small squares of matte laminate cut out and waiting to put over registration marks when my FC9000 has trouble reading the marks. I've also used the matte scotch tape with good results as well.