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  1. How to correctly maintain UV printer?

    I can't agree with the above. Our UV machine requires massively more maintenance compared to our solvent (once a month clean) and aqueous (never cleaned in 11 years) printers.
  2. Question Roland UV or Mimaki UV

    Typically much larger dots than solvent, leading to grainier prints with less resolution.
  3. Question Roland UV or Mimaki UV

    With the amount of complaints about the LEJ 640 on here, I don't think anyone is going to recommend that one. Typically UV is not the direction you want to go if you want high quality/small labels.
  4. CE6000 and FC8600 Maintaince

    Nearly 3 years with our FC8600. The only thing we do it turn it off overnight.
  5. X-Rite i1 Display Studio or x-Rite ColorMunki Photo

    The ColorMunki Photo can do printers, but it limited to 50 patches. I'd be looking more toward something in the i1Pro range if you value colour accuracy.
  6. Can I changes these thing I hate about my Roland Printer/Plotter?

    You need to tell the printer how much media is on the roll first, then it will calculate usage and when you unload you can get an update from the machine. This is easiest when starting with a fresh roll. You'll also need to update this each time you change a roll. You can get the machine to...
  7. For Firefox Users on Win 10

    Mine would be a toss-up between Windows 2000 and 7. It's been a downhill slide since then.
  8. Laminate overhang!

    We've got a 64" RS as well. Please let me know how you go with this. I've often thought of building something like this as well, but ready made beats the effort. Just curious how much fabrication will be required to add to an RS lam.
  9. Question Acuity HS

    Océ 360GT with 257 inkset. We do get a bit more misting of magenta compared to 256 inkset, but not even 1% of what you've shown in your photo.
  10. Discussion What's the most common design mistake you see made in sign design?

    One of the popular ones is requesting vector artwork. 9 times out of 10 they will print the document to a PDF writer and send through the result... which is just an embedded raster image. Frustrating. This isn't on the designer, it's usually the business owner who thinks they can "trick" us and...
  11. Bomb Sight Alignment Issue with FC8600

    Do the media rollers spin freely? We occasionally have an issue with some jobs that will cause the rollers to drag (no idea how or why) and the printer will panic and stop moving until reset.
  12. Discussion What's the most common design mistake you see made in sign design?

    Most of our clients seem to use graphic designers that only know how to make things look good online. We frequently get files without outlined fonts, colours way out of CMYK gamut, thousands of clipping masks and so on. The amount of time we spend on cleanup would sometimes compare to a...
  13. Question Acuity HS

    Hmm, same as us then... weird. Unfortunately I don't have much more to offer on this as we haven't had any similar occurrences.
  14. Question Acuity HS

    How far from the substrate are you printing? We've had our UV for 7 years (Océ) and never seen anything like this on ours.
  15. Onyx won't send files down to Mimaki UCJV anymore!

    NETWORK -> DHCP -> OFF NETWORK -> IP ADDRESS -> set as desired NETWORK -> GATEWAY -> usually your modem IP address NETWORK -> SUB NET MASK -> 255.255.255.0 usually
  16. Site font change?

    Nope... still the same as always here. Sounds like something might have happened at your end.
  17. Where Does All the Coroplast Go?

    Reminds me of a Seinfeld episode... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0697660
  18. Does your webpage say "Not Secure"? It is very important to check.

    Let's Encrypt is brilliant... all of our servers are covered by their certificates as well.
  19. Epson S40600 vs HP Latex 315+Epson P6000

    The only machine you've listed that is a true photographic printer is the Epson SC-P6000. Resolution, gamut and archival inks will whip the other two printers by a long mile. You've listed too many jobs for just one printer to cover. You will need to buy multiple machines to suit each task. We...
  20. Forklift Attachment For Handling Multiple PVC Rolls

    Something like this? https://www.kokeinc.com/products/forklift-carpet-poles/ There's a 5 pole attachment at the bottom of the page.
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