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If it's old stock it'll do that on just about any printer. If it's not, it's probably heat related. I've had that happen even with solvent printers, mostly with some low tack, cling material, or media that uses a plastic or PET liner (like window perf). On latex printers it can be more...

I like the concepts, but agree with the majority, no outline. When you start getting into small stuff a logo is used on (business cards, invoices, address labels) it ends up making the text very small to fit it all. I also do newspaper ads on the side, you also have to look at grayscale/ BW...

It's because the head drops ink while it's moving, having it too far away from the material causes overspray. The only time you should be running the head in the high position is when printing to thick material that would cause head strikes in the low position. If you are printing on media too...

Inskape is incredible, I've used it off and on since I first played with it back around 2008-2010-ish, it's come a long way. After I retired, that's what I used doing freelance work. Then my freelancing entered the realm of doing ads and layouts for newspapers, shopping guides, and other...

WildWestDesigns If you do flash, animation, etc, yeah, Adobe is kind of a must. If you're a photographer, it's still the boss. It comes down to what you need. I work for a sign company and freelance in the ad world, I design for print, I print, I cut... I send files to printers of newspapers &...

I can tell you why I use it. Saves a lot of money and headaches. Unlike Adobe, their products all Affinity products have the same core programming, so you can work seamlessly between their vector/ photo/ publisher programs. They're streamlined, don't have bloat or require massive system...

Been doing blues/ alternative blues for the last 10-ish years, before that metal, rock, a little of everything since I started playin' in the 60's, except country for some reason. My last show was a blues festival in March 2020, right when everything went crazy. We had an LP ready to release...

I hear ya'... I'm in the music game too, over 50 years. Incredible how such a small percentage of what a musician does ever sees the light of day, it sits in boxes filled with tattered notebooks, tapes and drives filled with tracks, just collecting dust :(

Used to run all Rolands... Start with the linear encoder strip, that tells the head where it's at. It's a plastic strip up in the rail with millions of little invisible magnetic strips in it that a sensor reads to locate the horizontal position. When it gets dirty/ damaged, the head can't tell...

I think we all have at least one of those "never seems to get finished" projects... Have a few myself.

Affinity Rocks! Been using it for a couple years now for all the graphics we do here at the shop. Then there's the vectors I do just for fun, like this. Worth every penny, and then some :cool:

Can you adjust the head height lower? You will get hazy and grainy prints when the head is too high.

Haven't touched Corel in years, I'm down to only one single license for Illustrator for some file and device plugin support, but even dropped the rest of the Adobe suite... I went outside the box, been using Affinity for the past couple years for most everything design-wise. I've been trying to...

Mimaki has some real work horses. we have a CG130FX that's been in service here since it was bought new over 17 years ago. We added an SR-III this year for some large jobs (seems like a toy compared to the CG), and that CG is still my go-to, never lets me down. I'm going to refresh it soon with...

The stiffer the frame, the better. I used to do stuff like that for a company, and used both cross and corner bracing on larger ones. You don't want to use too heavy/ stiff banner material. Like the post above from GACO5, an economy 13oz scrim works good, flexible enough to stretch, not so heavy...

Was it in the direct path of a bathroom exhaust fan by a Taco Bell?

You only "need" a piece of equipment if/ when when you have enough work to sustain it, or you feel the market for it is good enough to risk buying it. Equipment grants are one of those things that would give an unfair financial advantage to one business, so they would then need to be available...

I laughed way too hard at that...

Looking for a lighted exterior cross. A church wants something in the 5 foot-ish tall range, internally illuminated, they prefer LED. Can be fab'd or formed acryilic, poly, whatever, want it lit/ visible on all sides. I can find tons of options, except for this. There’s already a pole on top of...

Roland is the only one I know of that has one that bridges that gap for vinyl use. Most companies make desktop paper machines, or large format (36" and up) for vinyl, with nothing in between. Desktops are made for documents, photos, they will print to some thin vinyls like label & crafting...