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I agree that separate cutter is almost always a better choice if you have the room.

As far as printer/cutter combos go, Mimaki is the main brand competing with Roland. So I'd check them out. The CJV150 is a solid, proven machine.

Yeah that looks like alignment issues. Did you change heads recently?

Check your RIP's manual. A lot of RIPs have ink usage counters per job that will give you a good idea. In general the number people have used for Solvent is about 35 cents per square foot. Not sure how comparable latex is though.

That's weird. We're a Mutoh dealer and we haven't been having issues. Our biggest problem was when they switched to the MS31 and the order ValueJets were clogging up. What model are you running?

One chip failing once in a while is normal and Mutoh will send you out new chips. All of the chips failing all the time is an indication that your maintenance station isn't working 100%.

My first thought is a rendering intent mismatch. Drop shadows are raster effects. Your RIP usually defaults to render raster and vector objects using different methods. But when a raster effect with transparency is used on top of a vector object, the RIP renders the raster effect and vector...

I'm about half way to being one myself!

You're good. I totally get it! I'm not saying I 100% agree with the way things work at all but in my experience, the second you mention 3rd party inks and end user part install, they will blame that from that point on no matter what. I've been aiding people fix their own machines for a long time...

No, just giving you free info about how Mimaki handles defective parts and what their policies are. I'm not the one who sold you a defective part!

I've been working on machines for about 15 years and I've never seen a brand new damper leak like that other than if it had obvious physical damage. It's possible it was damaged in shipping or something I'm guessing. Also, just a note, if you had to input the head rank number, the head was most...

The LUS-150 in particular is a more rare ink these days. All of the original JFX200s were inked with the LUS-150 ink but shortly after release, they came out with the LUS-170s and now most JFX200s use the 170s or the LH-100 for hard applications. So I assume the 3rd parties just don't see a...

If budget isn't an issue, the Epson is a more high quality machine. Most people get the HPs because they are cheaper, have non-toxic ink and the printheads are cheap. But if you can afford the Epson, it's the better choice in my opinion.

I had a customer accidentally order the MAX2 inks so he put some regular MAX ink chips on them and used them like that. He had no issues but it was only 2 cartridges and he switched back after.

Agreed. A lot of people like the HP because it's non-toxic inks but forget that heating vinyl up to 100 degrees releases all kinds of bad stuff into the air that are particularly dangerous to kid's development.

That error is not really meant for users and is for the software developers. One of their functions is failing when it tries to run. Either your software is corrupt, the file you're RIPing has some sort of object the RIP can't process or some other technical issue is happening. You could ask...

It could be a couple things. If your color setup is CMYK x 2 and you don't have the light cyan, light magenta, or light black, grays will always look a little more grainy than if you did. Make sure you run the drop position alignments and get them as perfect as you can. Do the same with the...

The Epson you mention is an aqueous printer so it won't make outdoor durable stickers. With laminate you could make something work but it would still fade quickly compared to a solvent or UV printer. For your budget I would take a look at the Mimaki CJV150 series. You could get a new 30"...

It's generally not a good idea to print directly to magnet with a roll to roll printer. A head strike could cost you a head which is $$$$. Most people will print on some vinyl and laminate it on the magnet, use a UV printer, or sub it out.

Yeah banner is very forgiving usually so it should work out fine. Medium or high is probably better to avoid head strikes.