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  1. Color Gamut - No Blue

    i know next to nothing about latex, but, there is another variable is this machine heavily used? does latex have solids to come out of suspension in your ink? would shaking inks periodically be an idea worth consideration?
  2. Roland SP300i missing nozzles

    power down, UNPLUG & WAIT 15 MINUTES lets err on the side of caution
  3. Businessing is Hard

    yes, just fill out this simple 20,000 page initial application & then we can assign an EPA caseworker to your product and we can get down to the nitty gritty.
  4. Businessing is Hard

    that has been the issue for me, as well. time i should spend on marketing gets spent on the next engineering project. but I ENJOY my stupid re-engineering projects, damn it! about 45 years ago, a friend who was an electronics wholesaler always told me that the best techs were THE WORST salesmen...
  5. Third party DX4 printheads

    Adam, you are too caught up in this (it was your money after all) the other's input is proactive and useful. we wish you hadn't gotten taken, but you did... most important lesson to learn: THINGS COST WHAT THEY COST
  6. using ChatGPT for sign design and logos

    a good friend is a fairly big player in the banner business. he has started using AI instead of paying residuals to the artists. quite a savings. some of the images look "cartoony" until you apply the proper photoshop filters. then they are practically identical
  7. using ChatGPT for sign design and logos

    is ChatGPT that much worse than what we get from cients using CANVA?
  8. Solvent Inkjet

    Yes, consistent prices, Always ships on time. very helpful tech support
  9. favor needed

    The machines have a purpose but a very limited one. and, you don’t truly understand the limits until you own one & have destroyed a couple marginal print heads
  10. Need Help Envision 375 Calibration tool

    do you have a kitchen scale? that would answer the question. most of my gerber "toolkits go back to the plotters that worked with the edge's or the smc's i can't help on this one
  11. favor needed

    i often will use a bottle of the flush or cleaning fluid your ink manufacturer sells if it appears not to be working, i will add 5-10% acetone. (10% might be pushing it)
  12. favor needed

    they have the best support for what chemicals you use in the unit. it's worth a call to canada to talk to val if you run into trouble. i find AS A RULE this whole thing is very effective if you use the unit before it is apparent you have a bad head and need to flush. a gentle flush...
  13. favor needed

    i bought a Chinese knockoff a couple years ago
  14. favor needed

    did you buy a real print head doctor? what chemistry are you going to be using?
  15. Switching from Gerber Edge LE to Edge 2

    We own 3, but I haven’t printed on one in a couple years. didn’t the “trunnion” have a serial port?
  16. Third party DX4 printheads

    i believe there are no 3rd party dx4 heads. there are bad heads that have been flushed.& perhaps aqueous heads that have had the manifold changed
  17. Switching from Gerber Edge LE to Edge 2

    it would certainly be advisable to usb a different port windows recognizes devices by a combination of port & whatever sort of device id am i confused? the edge's have serial & parallel port parallel is MUCH faster. i imagine you have the usb to serial adapter because it was used with your...
  18. UCJV330 Won't print properly on the 1600mm wide media

    Smoke-jaguar do these have a ribbon cable that goes south like on the Roland’s? certainly there is a test & calibration to be done
  19. Jetbest Inks in a Mimaki UVJC300-160

    does jetbest claim that the chemistry is completely compatable? i have seen people do this with roland inks, but, not with mimaki (we have very limited mimaki experience) francis from premier colour can answer that for you i imagine. ask whoever you bought the inks from
  20. Need Help old ROLAND SP-300V problem

    TRY THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK (it often works) consider using a cleaning cartridge with about 5% acetone in the cartridge pull enough through the tube to get the acetone reaching the printhead let that soak for a couple hours. do several cleanings now print a large rectangle to get the acetone...
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