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We cool our 8,000 sqft warehouse with swamp coolers which is much cheaper than AC, but if you're having issues with humidity, that probably won't work in your area. Your printers should be working at under 86 degrees. Maybe that will sway the boss to cool things down a bit.

I honestly don't know how well it works on acrylic but from a technical standpoint, it's definitely tougher on the head. It's hard to say exactly how much life it takes off a head but it will fail sooner than it would have with regular ink running through it. So maintenance will be key. Also, if...

My sister is looking to create custom playing cards for her company that she wants to find a supplier for who would drop ship them directly to people who buy them. They would be about 4" x 6" so not standard playing card size. Anyone here on signs101 do that kind of thing or know of a place that...

The general lifespan for that head is 6 billion shots. That being said, there are many factors that will affect that number and overspray can be caused by other issues in the printer or bad ink for example.

I would say if the end customer didn't provide any original art work and just gave a description of what they wanted and you did the design work, technically you own the artwork unless you signed away ownership in an agreement of some sort. You might just tell them, in the future, if you want to...

With that printer, it will probably just over saturate and make it look weird. Texture is best left for the UV printers.

There are a lot of rural sign shops that don't have a near by tech and can't afford to fly one across the country to their shop. There are also relatively few techs compared to the amount of printers. Low supply and high demand cause tech prices to be fairly high. A lot of sign shops are started...

I'd love to spill the tea someday when I'm not representing someone else's company. If you're still around by then, I'll look you up!

Every one of my ink suppliers raised prices 10% on June 1st except for Mutoh.

HP has something like that but it's more for mass production. https://www.hp.com/us-en/commercial-industrial-printing/pagewide-web-press.html?jumpid=va_37f3aac8b1

The original ink for that machine was called Eco Ultra ink. Now it's just called MS31. It's still a current product and you can get it from any Mutoh dealer. If you want to save money, Bordeaux also has a third party option that works well.

That or my first hunch is the head lock mechanism is either not disengaging or is misaligned causing the head to remain locked when it shouldn't.

Your printhead can fire different sized dots. The nozzle check uses the largest one. So you can have issues with a print head even when the nozzle check looks perfect. Try printing the nozzle check in service mode. That will print the other sized dots as well and will probably show defects.

The first errors you received mean the motor was experiencing slight drag that became too much to overcome. The second set of errors means it's experiencing a large amount of drag really quickly. Since the encoder setup didn't fail immediately, which indicates the sensor was reading properly for...

07 is the one used for flushing the ink system.

Especially with UV inks. When I was just starting out as a tech, it was well known that DX5 heads don't hold up with UV inks so I was surprised to see a model still using them.

Just for anyone else in the future, these machines are Mutoh RJ900X printers frankensteined into a UV printer. Parts for the RJ900X are much cheaper than what Coldesi will sell them to you for and they are exactly the same except for the UV and gantry/table parts.

Once the ink in the head runs out, you'll only be firing 4 channels so the color and saturation of your prints will change. Firing the nozzles without ink will most likely damage the piezo crystals but if you're not using them, I guess it's not a problem. If it works for you and saves you some...

Glad to help! There's really only a few things it could be. Either the strip popped out from the sensor or got unplugged from the CR board (for some strange reason), the sensor itself has failed and needs to be replaced, or the components on the main board that control the signal have become...