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I ordered a roll of Oracal 951 Silver Lake metallic to do some test prints on my L25500. So far the results look promising, but it's not working 100%. I'm getting a lot of pooling and blurring with the ink, and I have my heat settings turned up to what I use to print reflective. The vinyl is...

I have been printing samples for over an hour now trying to match a deep blue on a customer's truck. The existing graphics were printed on a solvent machine, and I just can't seem to find a formula that the HP likes. It is really hard to get a picture that shows the difference, but I am...

Is there a shortcut for doing this type of outline in Flexi? I don't mind doing things the hard way if its the only way, but I was hoping there was a better option than manually adding in points and dragging all of these "tails" out.

Another day, another printer problem. After replacing some print heads I have developed this issue- horizontal "streaks" in the print. Something is obviously touching and dragging the ink (oddly it seems to be black only) across the media. I have ran printhead alignments which check out fine...

Every once in a while my printer will throw the error to replace the #3 printhead, which is a YK head. I can normally pull it out, put it back in and everything is fine. It popped up with this error again last night, and would not clear even after removing and reinserting the printhead. So today...

I printed some 4' stripes today and decided to try the "Segmented Area" 6 point registration marks, since someone in another thread suggested that would help the cutting accuracy on longer runs. First I loaded it in the cutter, and got a media error message. I reloaded, and then got an "HP-GL...

I'm working on a large wrecker for one of my clients. He has requested a large graphic on each side of the body (approx. 3'x3') to honor the 343 firefighters lost in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He wants something along the lines of the Twin Towers with an eagle behind them wrapping its wings...

I printed a combination of striping and lettering on 6' of 30" 680CR today. When I loaded it up in my CE5000-120 it read the contour marks perfectly, then proceeded to completely jack up the entire print. It was fairly accurate at the top and bottom, but in the middle it was off by 1/8" or more...

I am trying to get my new to me CE 5000-120 setup and running. I have gone through the menus and I thought I had everything set right for the auto contour cut mark settings, but apparently not. When I load a job up, it prompts me to align the blade with the lower right registration mark. I do...

Has anyone tried the Siser ColorPrint Soft Opaque with a HP Latex printer? It doesn't say it is compatible on Siser's website, but it sounds like good material so I'd like to give it a try.

I've found a CE 5000 48" for sale not too far from me, but I have no experience with Graphtec to know what it is worth or if it's a good machine. I'm upgrading from a Mutoh SC 850D, the 30" is too small to contour cut prints coming off of my 42" L25500. The guy says it was never used...

I printed about 25 feet of 3M 680CR reflective today, and I noticed the ink wasn't fully dry on the left side of the prints. It seemed like the beginning of the print was fine, but then after the first 1-2 feet the left side black areas were pretty oily. I am running 30" material on a 42"...

So I've ventured into the printable heat transfer material world. My Grimco rep recommended Specialty Materials 2160, so I ordered that and the first print on it with my L25500 turned out awesome. Then I loaded it in my cutter and everything went downhill quickly. It almost looked like I set it...

My L25500 is telling me the #3 YK printhead is bad. It has told me this before, and also gave me a message saying I needed to re-seat this printhead. I have always been able to pull it out, put it back in and it's fine. But now it's telling me the print head is bad, and no matter what I do it...

I have posted several logos on here looking for feedback, and always got great responses. Let me start out by saying I am by no means great at designing logos, but I am working on it. I can turn out fire truck graphics all day long, but logos aren't something I do a lot of. I have been searching...

I've noticed a lot of us do the exact same job very differently. I never really gave it much thought, but then I began to wonder if maybe there is a reason for why we do it differently? What made me think about this is installing some lettering on a truck... the layout is wider than it is tall...

I have noticed my L25500 is leaving a small puddle of ink under the right side... It is running down the right leg to the floor. Any ideas for what this could be? It isn't the waste tank overflowing, I checked that.

I have a Daige Quickmount III that I got a deal on. I was hoping that it would get me by until I can buy something nicer. I have it up and going, but it is leaving some silvering after I run prints through. I know the bottom roller is soft and I know they recommend using a sled, but I have seen...

I am needing a latex printable, high performance white 3M vinyl comparable to Oracal 751. I know 180cv3 would work, but I don't need air release and it isn't going to be used for wrapping. It seems like most distributors are trying to push the 180, but it seems like a waste of money for general...

I am running a full purchased version of Flexi 11 on a Windows 7 laptop. I have had no issues until today. I started up my computer, clicked on the Flexi icon and when it began loading I got three "failed to load plugin module" warnings; fsformat.dll, fspreprod.dll, and fsintpaint.dll. The...