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I just made my second most frustrating purchase ever from Gerber. (That is if you don't count the $70.00 I pay every time I call to ask for tips on how to use their equipment.) The $100 bomb-sight for my envision 375 will always be the most furstrating, but here is number 2. Our old computer...

I'll start by saying we don't do much laminating, and what we do has been capably handled with The Biq Squeegee up to this point. But we are getting a few more jobs in where we have to mount vinyl to coro, and laminate to digital prints and I want to start figuring out what is out there. I...

I had a similar issue, but mine was only the CYAN. The problem was I had crimped the ink line when putting a cover back on after some maintenance. The line ended up getting cut at that point and was leaking ink. It would work for a while, then drop out when it lost it's "prime". You may have...

We have some business for coroplast signs and we print on vinyl, then lay on coro like many companies. But I'm curious if any of you have ever tried to run coroplast on a JV3. I can think of a few problems, but none SEEM insurmountable with some minor modifications. I have no intention of...

Back in business I found a guy locally who happened to have some extra tubing for the Mimaki, which he gave me. I replaced the tubing for that CYAN damper and I am printing something now that looks great. I appreciate all of the help!! I dodged a bullet and only lost a day of work and...

BREAKTHROUGH! I was looking in the back of the machine and noticed a blue drop on top of the waste tank. I explored further and found a kinked and broken ink line, just after it came out of the ink cartridge bay. Blue ink residue is all over the place inside the machine, but doesn't seem to...

After the nozzle wash, I got back 6 lines in that block of cyan, then after a strong cleaning, it went to 13. I'm doing another strong cleaning and see if I pick up any more. After this, I'll inspect the manifold nipple, but if it is broken, then what??

At the end of my rope... I think I am over my head and need a professional to come look at this machine. I got a syringe and disconnected both CYAN dampers, pressed the syringe to the damper and pulled. On both of them, ink immediately was pulled into the syringe. This leads me to rule out a...

GENERICNAME - I swapped the CYAN dampers. Then I pulled the ribbons out of the circuit board, and swapped them. When I tried to test print, it went through the motions, but nothing printed. So I swapped the ribbons back and got the same print pattern with the left half of the cyan missing. I...

Ok, I understand and I will swap the ribbons. Before I saw the reply, I did a strong clean and on the next test print about 5% of the lines showed. No idea what that means, but I started a head soak, thinking the head may have gotten clogged (again, before I saw the reply). Since I've...

Clarification I should clarify that I left the ink lines attached to the dampers and simply swapped positions. Unless I'm way off base, the fact that the problem stayed in the same place eliminates the lines, damper, pump and ink cartridge. You mentioned swapping the cables. Do you mean the...

Troubleshooting - dampers swapped, trouble in same place I swapped the cyan dampers, then did another test print. The trouble stays in the same place and did not move to the other side as I had hoped. Any suggestions for the next step?

Yesterday, I noticed a color problem on a job we were printing, so I printed a test pattern and one-half of the cyan is simply missing. You may not be able to see it well in this small pic, but the right half of the CYAN block is fine, and the left half is completely missing. The area is so well...

Reply to Mike Mike, I was replying to the post before yours. Yes, I would definitely like some samples! My e-mail is markhaas42@gmail.com. Let me know what you need from me. Thanks!

I think it has something to do with a regular printer not printing white ink. I'm new to this and have no idea what 3G opaque is, but I'll research it. With us having a machine that will print white, maybe we can print it.....not sure if they have a 3G opaque that works with an Edge, but I'll...

We don't do any textile printing, but I have a customer who does t-shirts on a small scale using cut vinyl for one color jobs and sublimation for multi-color jobs, but she can only print on light shirts, and can't print white as part of a multi-color logo on a darker shirt. We have a Gerber...

CORRECTION - CLEAR Lexan, not translucent.

This is all great information. Of all the issues I anticipated, I never considered that a single layer of digital printing might be "washed out" when backlit. I think I am going to print one layer in reverse on clear and lay that on the inside, then print another layer on 3M translucent...

We primarily do decals and what little sign work we do is usually cut vinyl. But we have a customer looking for a lighted sign with a graphic that will need to be digitally printed. We have a Mimaki JV3-160SP and I plan to print on clear and lay the vinyl on a piece of translucent lexan. I'm...

We recently purchased a SUMMA D140R plotter to contour cut decals printed on our Mimaki JV160SP. Up until this point, we had printed decals on a Gerber Edge 2 or we screenprinted them. The Mimaki was used only for banners and large prints because we didn't have a plotter that would cut over...