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Looks like the repair guy could be right.
Can you see if the media is buckling up where this problem is occurring?
If so the likely cause is too much heat.
When media creases up like that you will get a light streak where its too close to the heads. If if gets worse the heads can even scrape the...
While I think it's a good idea to set your own pricing and not worry about what your competition is doing, comparing local prices to chinese is nuts.
We even have a chinese sign/print company here in our city, and yeh they charge half what everybody else does... but know what? they don't have...
hey i have the same model, first machine i ever bought still goes fine, they're built to last..last supplier i went to for parts told me the same thing.. get something newer.. well i did but kept the graphtec as a backup cutter
If you want accurate repeatable colour you really just have to bite the bullet and learn to profile your own media. Or be satisfied with customers who really don't know what to expect.
Corel was/is easier to use and cheaper than Adobe products, and ran on PCs so got established in signshops.
Anyone doing print preferred Adobe.
Any Corel user will know that from the look on the face of any printer when you gave them a Corel file to print.. now I do large format print for pay I...
you can probably open them yourself if you have them on your computer already
if you know what type they are just add the right extension
eg .jpg or .tif
I've got HP5000 pigment ink prints outdoors with decent cold lam coming up to 3 yrs now, fair amount of UV too.. starting to fade noticably now. A lot depends on the laminate.
Re print quality. I have an Epson 4000 for small photos, slow as a wet week but excellent quality. For prints over A4...
you can just open the ai in photoshop if you want to rasterise it, then check the offending boxes.. but why not just save as eps and send that to the rip? opening in photoshop then ripping is kind of like ripping the thing twice
Just bought a Summa D120SE and am very happy with it. If you get into cutting printed shapes it works great too. Had Graphtec and Roland plotters previously.
2NinerNiner2, Macs ARE Pcs now lol, I've had both types of computer too, and there's nothing you can't do on a PC these days..
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