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Designers go out of their way to make things harder or as near impossible as they can!!!!!! As soon as I get a job from a designer or archtitect you can bet you should instantly triple your price because of all the B.S. I mean they use the most obscure and unobtainable letter style and make sure...

As for scrap vinyl. Up until last year I would give all my scraps to local schools as they always were welcome of it. Last year I was called by one of the schools we gave to and asked whether we had any offcuts or scraps they could have. I told them yes come and get them. A week later I got a...

I contacted Inkmill last week and this week and I am getting no reply. I understand the ink is more for the heavy industry heads but I am getting it for nearly nothing. SC

Fuses are not only a protection for items they are a marker to say their is a fault somewhere. I learnt this the first day of being an apprentice electrician. Mind you the amount of faults I have repaired since with just replacing a fuse even after the person whose item it is had already changed...

I have a chance to buy a lot of ink for my JV3-160s which will keep me going for a long time. The question is will it work in my printer? I have a bulk ink system ready for this so should not be a problem. The ink is made/sold by Inkmill and is called Bio solvent Ink. This was originally made...

I had a similair problem last week and thought I had fried the firewire card in the printer. Turned out to be the firewire cable. I think the cables can be as fusy as the cards so I would try a new one. SC

I think you will find mine is a JV3-160S (3 head) not a 4 head SP. By the looks of things the SP bracket is longer, which is what I have got. SC

Here is some better pictures. You can see the holes on the top pictures circled which are not in the correct place. SC

Here are some pictures. (not he best quality) It is as if the metal bracket is incorrect. Do the 4 head machines have a larger one? Thanks SC

Thank You all for the information and pictures/drawings. I bought the item from Digiprint:- http://www.digiprint-supplies.com/jv3-head-adjust-lever-assy-m006034.html It fits into the indents as VanderJ states but the screw holes are not in the correct place. The item does state "Mimaki...

I am on with fitting a head height adjuster on My jv3 160s which was missing when purchased. Does anyone have a picture of how this is mounted? I have searched for hours and not found a single Image. The mechanical drawings for this machine are no help either. Thanks SC

Good news I changed the firewire cable and it is up and working again. SC

I thought running a print server over the ethernet made the parallel connection faster. I found it was always much faster on the print server than if it was just connected directly from the PC to the parallel cable when running the Graphtec. As for repairing the firewire card I have been...

I have a problem with my JV3-160s. After plugging my laptop which did not have a Texas Instrument firewire card it keeps throwing a Error 20 code. I believe I have fried the firewire card as I have been told they are really fussy. Question is can I run it of the parallel port using an Ethernet...

OMG OMG this happens all the time. It is as if the customer thinks placing the raster file into PS or AI does something magical to it. All it does is make the image even crappier!!! I even had a customer last week who had an app on his phone (didn't know one existed!) to convert a raster into...

This has always been an issue but with the dawn of computers and the world wide web everyone thinks they have access to amazing artwork that is usable. In my 30 years in the sign making trade this issue has got worse and is a daily occurrence. I watched in amazement as my business partner has...

Dave Thank you so much for the information. I will spend a bit of time one night this week to do the necessary adjustments. My biggest issue is the heads are sticking and not moving freely when releasing the allen screws. I think I will remove all the heads and clean the base plates also apply...

I have managed to acquire a little Apple PowerBook G4 laptop, YES I know it is old, but it has only been used for about 8 hours in total since it was bought new. This will sit on a little shelf attached to the right of my Mimaki JV3-160s (this is perfect as it has firewire built in and run a...

All of the print heads have been changed so their is no base point to start from or assumption that one of them is correct. Further on yesterday with a little bit more time on it. I have found that the slant adjustment on all 3 heads was tightened so much it physically was doing nothing as far...

Well I spent another couple of hours trying to set this machine up and with no luck. Please help as everything is out of alignment now and probably no better than I started. I tried to do a unit adjust but it just prints one black line and no light magenta (at least I can't see it!) as it is...