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  1. Profiles and CutContour

    The installer put the CutContour in our AI color palette and now we have a new computer. How do we make a CutContour that stays? A link or instructions if you can, please. We also have a profile to install for cast wrap. How do we install that profile, please and thank you. On a pc running...
  2. Roland SP540V Not Printing Straight

    Clean the encoder strip with alcohol, not the cleaning solution for the printer. We had the same issue and now monthly clean the strip with lint free soft paper towels soaked with alcohol. You can also flip it over and get more time from it as your only using the half exposed. eventually it will...
  3. 3M or Avery

    We have been using Avery MPI1005SC Easy Apply RS with DOL 1460 lam and have had pretty good results. The main reason is price though because we get a very good deal as a kit, like $920. I have used the 3M control tac and think it's better, but not enough to justify the difference, I kinda think...
  4. Just stops printing and states Not Connected in VersaWorks

    It seemed ours was the network card on the printer, but before we installed this $900 part we tried another computer and it worked fine, so we replaced the network card in the pc and all is fine. We did however try 10 different things first and it came to be simply the network card on the pc...
  5. SP300 contour cutting way off

    I found that too much force does it... so I put in a new blade and less force and it cuts much much better. This seems to be true also because laminated was more of a problem and cheaper blades are too, so better newer blades and horizontally no more than 4' if possible works for us.
  6. Wallpaper lamination

    May have had liquid lam... I don't think so. The printed edges didn't act like our typical vinyl and get super thin and crazy. I called the printer that printed them and she can't remember the details but assumes if it was peel and stick, then it had to be plain calendered vinyl. We couldn't get...
  7. Wallpaper lamination

    We have installed vinyl to walls before and used customer provided typical peel and stick vinyl. We used wallpaper paste and it worked fine. The provided vinyl had no lam and the walls texture was typical drywall semi-smooth. The new job we printed and the wall is the same texture and we want to...
  8. Mounting Digital Media, No Lamination

    We also mount everything using the laminator and have more difficulty when the ink is to the edge. We found it is best to not laminate for magnetics too, the lamination shrinks causing the mags to curl and then blow off, so we put the mags on pvc scrap, but this vinyl does get thin like and...
  9. Crummy contour cut got ya down?

    Also never try using too much weight. A new blade seems to work great and a slightly used blade does not work at all.
  10. Aftermarket Ink? Need Advice?

    We tried solaris and for one year we had no problems, then the black/cyan head dropped out. Many little fixes and the problem just worsened. Our supplier gave us a roland black and cyan, the ink actually wiped the problem away... their ink is thinner I guess, but the problems just went away. I...
  11. Flattening issue... I think

    Fixed it... I think The exact same file prints absolutely fine on a nearby machine using FLEXI. The same Roland sp540v machine, the same photoshop tiff cmyk file, but not ran through versaworks... this leads me to believe versaworks has a problem keeping the colors and art unaltered. We also...
  12. Flattening issue... I think

    Flattening I think the pic worked. I am pretty sure it's a flattening issue. The yellow box to the right is from adobe using the roland color swatches. Prints just fine by itself, as always. If you look close at the logo, there are parts of it in the right color, but there are boxes around the...
  13. Flattening issue... I think

    We have been having an issue for about a year with this one customers art. We are doing the fifth wrap for them and I keep promising we will get the yellow background to be a very bright yellow. We've have tried many time consuming tests and we have had to settle on one that comes close... but...
  14. Flattening issue... I think

    We have been having an issue for about a year with this one customers art. We are doing the fifth wrap for them and I keep promising we will get the yellow background to be a very bright yellow. We've have tried many time consuming tests and we have had to settle on one that comes close... but...
  15. Printing double sided banners

    We have some material, but no idea how to go about printing banners double sided. Any tricks or advise is appreciated. Joe
  16. Printer Indicates No Ink ?

    Kinda sorta typical. I work closely with another shop that also has a SP-540V and when ours acts up, he usually knows the solution because his is only a few years older and has done the same thing. Recently ours quit reading registration marks and wouldn't find pinch rollers. He replaced the...
  17. Panel cutting problem

    We have a CE3000-60 using cutting master 2 from ai cs3. We have been using this plotter for 8 years and cutting master 2 for several years now too. The problem is when I cut a large logo very similiar to the ford oval with an inset border and it is in two pieces, the plotter is cutting the seam...
  18. Banding issues

    I thought a new thread for this question is better. We seem to be getting too much banding mostly when using many of the roland color chart library colors, like gray. When we choose cmyk and only have a % of k, we get no banding, but we get a hint of blue or magenta in it, and nothing but...
  19. We need a bright yellow

    What is the best way to print the brightest yellow from photoshop and also ai? In ai we use 100% yellow, or PRO1i from the roland chart. Thank you
  20. Random color change

    Not files from the customer, but files for this customer/job. We created the files in ps. We have done two wraps successfully and this problem is new. It happens with the previous used files too. We have opened them to test them and they too now print greenish. By the way... what is the best...
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