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I have a mimaki cutter cg-75fx that I am having problems with repeatability of cut. Will not cut in the same spot or even within .1 - .3 mils of the same spot twice in a row. Hardware looks flawless, low mileage cutter. I have the maintenance manual and am about to blank all the calibration...

130 cutter Are you using serial or usb interface? The usb connector is easily damaged if someone trips on the cord, so if you can't get it to talk using the USB I would strongly suggest trying the serial port. You may need to buy a serial cable from your local computer store. Note there are...

Hi I have a couple of JV3 printers. One has V5.1 firmware installed and the other is V7.2. I have tried going through the mimaki website and searching only but I can't find a listing of the various firmware revisions that were issued by Mimaki and what issues they fix/address. Most...

I would like to use the parallel port on my JV3's instead of firewire. I went to the mimaki website and downloaded their Drivers 3.0 archive as these are guaranteed to work with win 7 32/64 bit, but there are only USB 1.1, USB 2.0 and Firewire Drivers. Where do I find a driver that will allow...

cutting off In the cutter manual there is a process to do a sheet calibration that calibrates x and y distances to make sure cutting is on perfection. I would try that before going any further. Unfortunately the 'english' in this section is not great and it does make reading this section a bit...

64 Bit system works fine with cutter Hi I have a mimaki CG-75FX using Win 7 64 bit. Works fine no problem at all with mimaki drivers and finecut 8 for both corel and adobe. I am using a serial connection on mine and not USB if that helps. BTW serial is much better for distance. USB should be...

Just to be clear in the world of stepper and servo motors the drive is the electronics that runs (drives the motor) the motor of course is the motor and the pulley part of the mechanism. I work with stepper and servo systems all the time. Please note that you could be having a problem in the...

What I mean is this above, no real prices just talk of great prices, no numbers, can't buy anything based on this info. If you have a price and stock and it can be purchased pls post it here and lets get on with it. People here obviously need heads and are ready to buy product so give them the...

When you go down to this FW level other than cartridge expiry date checking, what other features, capabilities or major operational fixes do you miss out on? Is the printer really that usable at such an old FW level or are you asking for lots of sublte problems? Pls advise.

oh oh,, not this again.... thought we already had 10 pages of this on the last thread a short while ago. Numbers please....real prices, real shipping, real availability, real heads.. Anything else is only noise and we have been there already....

cut problem If it won't do the square test (there is also a nicer, larger test from the menu that cuts the word CUT with a square around it for weeding ) is definitely (99% sure) a tool setup and/or bad blade. Been there.. Don't try anything until you adjust the blade depth to a shallower...

firstly are you 100 percent sure that the knife holder is a real mimaki one. I have a mimaki cutter and even with cheap chinese blades it cuts just great. There are two cutting selftests built into the cutter, have you run those and set your offset 10 110 0.3 works for me with avery vinyl. Use a...

Any idea for cheap and safe ventilation device for a low volume setup?

Do you have a suggestion for a good explosion proof model that is not a ton of money? Just curious but when I overhauled my jvw they are just using conventional blower wheel fans with open motor that are not explosion proof and they are probably sitting in the area that has the highest solvent...

I want to put in a ventilation system for my JV3-130 printer that is running SS2 full solvent inks. Printer is intermittently used. I looked in the manual but can't seem to find any rough numbers about how many CFM of airflow will provide adequate ventilation for this printer. I intend to hook...