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  1. Old SP300v, what to do with it

    It's worth whatever the maximum amount you can get someone to pay for it. Just as a data point, I paid $2K for an SP-300V (which used to be an SP-300, but someone converted it to a V with Roland's double-secret conversion procedure) in January and then spent another $750 for upgrades (new...
  2. Question What's your equipment setup?

    - Roland SP-300V printer/cutter w/ Jetbest bulk ink system - signs, stickers, banners, shirts, posters - Epson ET-15000 printer - Sublimation - HP M404dn Color Laserjet - business cards, toner foil transfers, labels - Chinese heat press - HTV, Sublimation - Brother PRS-100 - Embroidery - Pfaff...
  3. Who does there own print head swap. Or do most use Techs.

    I just did a head replacement (Epson DX4) on a Roland SP-300V and I'm kind of an idiot. After an annoying manual physical vertical / bias alignment and a very easy horizontal alignment, and subsequently replacing some data cables and dampers, the quality is very good. Reading the service manual...
  4. Florida man here

    Melbourne. Throw a rock here and you'll hit an engineer
  5. Florida man here

    Howdy! I bought a used Roland SP-300V and was pointed to this place by its previous owner. Signs101 seems like the place to be for people getting into this scene. So far I've made a six-foot banner, a handful of stickers and a few HTV T-shirts. I just did a semi-successful print on some marine...
  6. Has Artificial Intelligence gone too far?

    Gigapixel is outrageous. Someone sent me some blocky, noisy low-res JPEGs to make 11x14s out of and I was actually able to pull it off without it looking like trash. It really does what it says it does. Not a shill, just super impressed. I've messed around with Stable Diffusion and DALLE-2 when...
  7. Platen has no suction? Clean your fan.

    I bought a used Roland SP-300V and it's been working like a dream--except there was barely any suction on the platen, if any. So I watched a YouTube tutorial, took the plates off the front and rear, removed the ducted fan from the assembly and....dust city, population: me. I brushed it and...
  8. SP-300 - New printhead?

    I replaced the C/K printhead and it's working perfectly. It was about $500, not $3K. Thanks for the recommendations.
  9. SP-300 - New printhead?

    Just bought a used Roland SP-300 and got the attached for a test print after doing a power clean. You think it's time for a new printhead? Any suggestions on where to buy a DX4 printhead? Thanks.
  10. 80x100cm Heat Press, 220V Dryer Outlet Wiring?

    I'll definitely verify the 110 outlet's grounded before hooking any of this machinery up. Thanks again for your help.
  11. 80x100cm Heat Press, 220V Dryer Outlet Wiring?

    When I say the ground, I mean the ground pin on a nearby 110 socket, not the neutral pin on the dryer socket (I'm going to leave pin disconnected). The female 4-pin-to-male 3-pin adapter has a green pigtail with a pin on the end of it that you're supposed to plug into the actual ground socket...
  12. 80x100cm Heat Press, 220V Dryer Outlet Wiring?

    I'm planning on using the 3-male to 4-female plug with a ground wire (the green wire) designated for a third pin to a 110V outlet like the attached and ignoring the dryer's neutral wire.. Apparently people use these adapters to hook 4-pin dryers to 3-pin outlets without changing the plug.
  13. 80x100cm Heat Press, 220V Dryer Outlet Wiring?

    Were you able to determine the cause? How old was it? Was it used constantly? Were there any signs of any issues before a catastrophic failure? Was there a filter on the intake? Thanks.
  14. 80x100cm Heat Press, 220V Dryer Outlet Wiring?

    I'm not planning on doing that, though. Did you see the drawing?
  15. 80x100cm Heat Press, 220V Dryer Outlet Wiring?

    Do you think the attached solution will work instead of replacing the 3-prong plug with a 4-prong plug? I'd rather not get an electrician involved if I don't need to, but if you've heard of any issues with this type of adapter then I'll definitely hire one. I don't understand. Are you saying...
  16. 80x100cm Heat Press, 220V Dryer Outlet Wiring?

    It is most definitely 220V, single phase, and there are only three wires. I'm planning on putting: - 'hot' on hot1 on the dryer plug, - 'null' aka neutral on hot2 on the dryer plug (since there is 220V across those two pins), and - 'earth' aka ground to a nearby 110 outlet ground pin - nothing...
  17. 80x100cm Heat Press, 220V Dryer Outlet Wiring?

    I'll definitely stay on top of that compressor. It'll never be on when I'm not around and I'll keep it dry and empty. Do you reckon I can run the Earth wire to a ground pin on a nearby 110 outlet? I've seen the 4-wire to 3-wire dryer plug adapters that do that.
  18. 80x100cm Heat Press, 220V Dryer Outlet Wiring?

    I'm about to buy one of those huge heat presses that requires 220V. I want to use my 3-prong dryer outlet. I see that a standard US dryer plug has two hots and a neutral, and that I can get 220V across the two hots and 110V across each hot/neutral pair. The heat press has a "hot", "null" and...
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