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Yeah I haven't had a cartridge go on me yet, but I had a head let go about 150mL in and I got that next day with no problems. Still, better safe than sorry, especially if something goes on a weekend or something is screwy with suppliers/shipping.

Just pay close attention to the carriage rail lubrication procedure, and make sure you're 100% clear on what to lube and where. That's pretty much the only real maintenance you do on it, other than keeping it clean.

+1 for this.

I make a point of NEVER printing from a pdf unless I can absolutely can't get around it. If I receive a pdf file from a customer, I generally will export it as an eps from Acrobat and then print that. I've had so many weird issues, glitches and general headaches from trying to make a PDF run...

I've succesfully printed on glass with an OCE 250GT, with no adhesion promoter. Quite good adhesion I would say. Just cleaned very well with iso alcohol.

I've run into this issue before as well. We resolved it by actually giving the aluminum pieces a quick acid bath before application of the vinyl. About 2 hours in a diluted hydrochloric solution should be about right. Obviously rinse it off really well with water before applying or touching with...

Tape it to the leading edge of a different roll of media so it "thinks" it's attached to a roll still. Should be the same width, or slightly narrower than your scrap piece.

One other thing to look into, take off the covers on the control panel side (not the heater control, the printer one) and look at the where the steel belt goes around the roller. Clean (very very carefully) the roller in case there is any debris or built up dust on there. Just below that, you...

If it's on 3 different machines, and it's all the same colour, then I would say a bad batch of ink is very likely. Likely it's clogging a damper, or possibly the head itself. Do not flush with water, you will probably need to follow your instructions provided for doing an ink system...

That's all I've ever done in the past when I used to use Versaworks... It will depend on your profile to some degree, but I didn't mess around with the spot colour settings for blacks. I did however use a slightly richer formula, 65/40/40/100 I think. But every printer you talk to swears by his...

I've been using SamInk in my HP9000s for years now, with no problems what so ever. Very consistent colour, quality, etc. Don't know what it would be like on the roland though... When I ran a VP-540 a while ago, it seemed a lot more sensitive to third-party ink, and we ended up going back to the...

hey zmachine, sorry to hear about your issues... that really sucks, especially when you can't really pinpoint what the issue is exactly other than "things keep getting messed up". For my part, I've ran the L26500 at the shop I work for about 5 months now and for me, it's been a dream machine. I...

Off the top of my head, I would say that this would be problematic to build in vector, so what I would do, is simply build a high-res version in photoshop. You might be able to use a combination of layer effects to do what you want. If you're lucky...

I also lam directly after printing, no problems at yet. No worse discolouration than with solvent, and like it was mentioned, if it's discolouring you are stretching it too far. The adhesive seems to act slightly more aggressive, I'm guessing because the heat of the curing process is working a...

Mainly the platen. I try to keep it free of the "dust" (I believe it is dried airborne ink) that collects on it. I will also give the cutting channel a quick clean with a toothbrush to get rid of any debris in there. The little vacuum holes also get cleaned out with a toothpick if they are...

I do it roughly every 2-3 weeks. I give the whole inside of the machine a quick clean at the same time... Never had a warning since we got the machine about 5 months ago.

At a previous shop I ran an OCE 250GT and we ran tests on basically every material we could get our hands on, including a variety of fabrics. This flatbed has a vacuum table to hold down the substrate, as well as a roll to roll option. However, what we found on MOST fabrics is that the ink would...

I would look at cleaning your encoder strip. Since you've already done that, I would look at mechanical things that may be causing media skew or creep. Possibly dirt on a pinch roller (the metal part in your platen) or possibly the system that is holding the roll of media? Other than that, I...

If it's giving you an encoder error, you need to clean off your encoder strip... I've never run a Falcon, but my old Roland 540 did something similar to that (as well as a bunch of other voodoo-type errors) and it was the encoder strip. It tells the carriage where it is on the printer basically...

Cabernet Sauvignon looks bang on to me. http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/bagraphics/cabernet-sauvignon/regular/