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  1. How Important are the specs of the PC?

    I got my CCIE back in 2001.... :P Back on topic. I'm with Wild West on this front. Pro workstations like the ones he mentioned and the upper end Dell Precisions (what I have for all of our desktops) are a different class of hardware. ECC saves you for that occasional crash as do the ECC...
  2. Anyone use Pro-Edge frames? Going out of business!

    Might be a good time to place an order and stock up on the supplies. I have not heard anything about them going out of business. We have one of the standup setups of theirs although we rarely use it. I might have to give them a jingle and see if we need to get several tubes of the most common...
  3. Box Truck Removal

    Get a propane jet tube heater (Reddy Heater) and put it inside the box for a while.... ;) Leave the roll up door cracked a little so you can keep an eye on it. We do this on trailers, box trucks, etc quite a bit when its cooler out (and consequently a bit cooler in the bay). Heats the whole...
  4. Changing dampers

    I'm one of those internet people. Sometime years back at a trade show some Mimaki tech showed me the Mimaki way (inverting the new damper, press the side valve while the cart valve is open) and also insisted that the dampers should be near 100% full. I did that for a long time but one day tried...
  5. Question Removal of old graphics

    IF we printed it and the material is in its serviceable life, in other words not cracking or anything, then we give a flat rate as I know the install, I know that its either Avery or 3M and will remove leaving little to no adhesive. Signed waiver is always good on a removal AND on full wrap...
  6. Problems importing PDF into Flexi

    Another thing to try is open in Illustrator and save as a native Illustrator file. Flexi generally takes those just fine too. I've not really had any problems with Flexi 12 on PDF here.
  7. Need Help JV33 Print Head error

    The head has a green connector and has a head ID sticker with the new head rank right? What firmware version? If above v4.40 you can try booting it into service mode and change Custom parameter item 76 - change this from 0 to 47 then exit out and reboot the machine. This is a very little known...
  8. Issues with 3m 180mc

    I'm right there with you. We do also use a good bit of Avery as well (bit more budget friendly) and it also seems to work great for us but a lot of our clients want and even spec 3M.
  9. Issues with 3m 180mc

    The removal is also what turned us off on the 175. Using a film that will be a bear to remove later is doing a big disservice to your customer. We do a lot of wraps and fully 90% or more eventually are brought back to us to either remove or remove and replace. I'm up front with our customers...
  10. For Sale Two Mimaki JV33 Machines with extras

    I'll take and post some pictures sometime next week. This is a PRE-sale. We have two new machines but the one JV33 is still in daily production until I can fine some time to get the new machine uncrated and setup. One is a JV33-160 and the other is a JV33-130. The 130 is down, it is in good...
  11. thoughts on non-oem ecosol ink?

    Still deciding on what I'm going to switch ours too. Actually have two brand new machines that I have not even setup yet. Have been running Triangle on our old JV33 machines and when we were running the JVV inks it was great. They discontinued them though and since switching to the Triangle MSS...
  12. Best place to hire experienced sign people?

    Wow, the numbers being tossed around vary wildly and many state that those on the lower end are insulting but not considering regional differences in costs of living and local economies. Also in my experience, someone young with a brand new shiny graphics design degree is bottom of the barrel...
  13. Meet Mr Roomba - Our Union Employee

    Reminds me.... for over a year now I've been needing to get a new battery for one we have. lol Oh and ours has never triggered the motion sensors on the security system.
  14. New Guy New to the business of wraps and more and need advice

    Users first post back in early January. Apparently did not like being told what they did not want to hear. Not seen since, go figure.
  15. Logo Resolution Problems

    Over the years I've used brandsoftheworld and a couple of other sources in a pinch but almost never do anymore. I did a comparison about 4 years ago and over 75% of the logos on there were only "close" to correct. I compared about 25 logos to 100% official versions and the inaccuracies were all...
  16. Vehicle installation pricing

    If your state does not consider humans to be a taxable product then you would certainly benefit by not charging tax on labor (install, design time). Fortunately here in SC straight labor is not taxable so we only charge sales tax on the actual physical product. A few years back we did get...
  17. JV33 Bulk ink????

    I very much agree with Vander on this. Even the middle ground setup like was pictured with the floats tend to be problematic. The (C)JV33 (as well as the newer (C)JV150/300) machines are extremely sensitive to pressures in the ink train. These machines have solenoid valves at the back of each...
  18. Total Garbage!

    Printsol..... because none of that Adobe software is going to do anything for actually running a wide format printer or cutter. While I defend Flexi, we do very very little actual design work in it. The text tools are pretty nice but other than some basic text layout most anyone knows that any...
  19. Shop Pics

    Agreed! My guess on that monitor is the RIP computer.. I have ours mounted to a wall and we use a wireless keyboard/mouse to send cut jobs and certain print jobs from it.
  20. Total Garbage!

    I'm thinking there is some configuration or some other issue. Us like thousands of others use Flexi every day and really have no issues. I'm not sure what you mean by dropping a file on the cutter pane? When we run print/cut jobs the cut job is sitting in Production Manager in a hold state. When...
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