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Scenario: VW crashes, and you have GOT to get this one thing printed NOW. Restarting VW takes forever because you haven't gotten around to purging the job list. Does VW have a key or keyboard combo you can hold down during startup that will either purge the job list or set it aside until next...

This is weird but not a big deal -- but anytime I generate cutlines from caldera or rip files with cutcontours they're opening up in Optiscout 0.12" off to the left. I have to select them all (but not the reg marks) and bump them over. Then everything cuts fine. Anyone run into this? We're too...

I think it's time to color calibrate our screens to our printers and new ink types. Which color calibrators have yall had success with? I've used the Xrite Studio at an offset print company, but it didn't play well with our Epson 36" wideformat (the dot pattern was too loose/grainy for it to...

This has been happening a lot lately -- AI files with CutContour spot color on a stroke-- not showing up in VR8. I have to pop the AI file into InDesign, then apply the CutContour on a shape. Then it works fine. Another weird thing: CutContours output from VR8 to Colex OXF files have to be...

Attached are two screenshots of the errors I always get when sending a job to our HP FB700. Ive kinda figured out the SIG error has something to do with it can’t find a drive or something…yet it still prints. anybody else encounter these? If so, what did you do to get rid of it??

Our XR-640 has white ink but never used it. We’ve been doing a crap ton of windshield stickers — which requires a LOT of steps. 1. Print in reverse on clear 2. Laminate with white vinyl 3. Xacto Cut and peel out registration marks 4. Cut stickers from sheet, and pray it hasn’t stretched Can...

I may have already asked this—if so itd have been awhile ago. Does anyone have suggestions for quieting down a Colex vac table? There are six vac pumps under it, and despite wearing earplugs AND ear cans it’s still so freakin loud. I looked at car mufflers but they’re a tad too bulky. What can...

Weirdness -- I punched in 18" length for a coroplast sign (as usual) The Scitex then says it's 36.5" long. Prints fine, but this is just WEIRD. The ripped job says 18". The file itself is 18". The actual resulting print is 18". It's just the measurement displayed onscreen is off. Anybody...

Not a big deal but puzzling -- our VWD won't show previews of jobs in the right-hand side pane. I've toyed around with the prefs but can't find anything to address it. Is this known to happen in Dual?

Colex wants $1500 to rebuild this little guy. I'm tired of these little issues nickle-and-diming me these last two years. Who's repaired one of these?

We're running VisualRip8 on an ancient intel iMac. It works great except when sending over to our Scitek. There's always an error (I've looked them up -- it's a generic x11 error relating to network drives not responding quick enough) Is there a way I can adjust or change Caldera to quit being...

I've used IPA to get rid of my greasy fingerprints before printing on our UV HP700, but lately everytime I clean coro with IPA it will leave streaks, large swaths of altered surface (flat matte, while rest of the areas are normal) and sometimes it won't even cut the fingerprints off. I've tried...

We're a CorelDRAW based shop, and print to 4x8 coro sheets. Lately we've been swamped with yard letter and flairs. We have a TON of new products on our site, all of which were built and prepped in Corel. Here's how we do it now: 1. Order comes thru our Woocommerce site, I grab a screenshot of...

Sign companies rarely have a mascot or recognizable branding, aside from a textmark (Signarama, Fast Signs, etc). Has anyone seen or heard of mascots/characters from a sign co, that served as the face of the company? I'm a cartoonist, and we've gone nationwide, so I'm itching to make up a...

We're running VW 5 on an FX8350 with 8GB ram. How can we increase performance and reduce our rip times? As a single-thread program, multi-core CPUs aren't much help, I'm assuming. Which modern CPUs have been found to be good with this version? Roland just tells us to upgrade to 6, but then that...

We go through a buttload of coro, and the recycle guys charge us thru the nose to come pick up our huge pile. Anyone here used a wood chipper to grind up spent coro drops? I'm all gung-ho about it but the rest of them are worried it'll dull out the blades and stuff too quick. I'd just like to...

Curious if it's possible to swap out this hard-to-see touchscreen on our HP FB500 with one that's much brighter. I've asked our local HP techs and they just laughed. There's a VGA port near the power switch...might try that out.

We're making a set of how-to videos, to show the new yard card biz people how to get and prep files for print-n-cut on our systems. The biggest obstacle is CUTLINES. CorelDRAW makes these super easy with boundary shape and the outside contour effect. AI doesn't have an easy way to do this. Do...

I'd like to streamline our workflow, and have read that Onyx supports Colex SharpCut machines -- but can't find any info how to make them talk to one another. Currently we're using OptiScout 7 and the WNC controller -- and it works okay -- the camera registration is a HUGE timesaver, but jumping...

We need to hire a new guy/gal to run a FB500 and our Colex 5x10 table. How did ya'll find/hire/train your people? And not get inundated with waves of desperate people -- many of whom who lie to get any job?? I've advised my boss we not post a help wanted ad ANYWHERE, but to check other...