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I keep telling myself... I love a challenge. Head crash with 3.5 letters to go on an 146" print. The edges of this media are sticky. It may have caused the problem. I've been watching it very closely throughout the print and it's been running well and not skewing. But something's happened and...

I hate when someone asks for advice and their reply is "That won't work". So before I tell you that it won't work I went and did a text print at 16 passes. Lo and behold it print not only acceptable but a very good color match to the sample I'd made previously. The whole file is now printing at...

Our city is home to our state flower. Every year there is a week-long event that goes on from morning to night. Contests, festivities, lottsa food, demonstrations, a huge parade, and bands playing every day and every night. We get none of that work. Instead of churning out professional-looking...

It does look like a feed issue. I've thought about but haven't yet tried to cut a test piece off the roll and see if it feeds better. This printer does not have the omas sensor. You are right, this 8000 is a very heavy roll. In fact, it seems to jerk the whole printer with each advance. I'm...

Man, I hope that works for you. Nothing's more frustrating than troubleshooting something you don't understand. I'm doing that now with a printer banding issue that I've never encountered.

Want to get real busy? Just have a problem you're trying to troubleshoot. The phone won't quit ringing, people walk in and the boss has a cut vinyl job he forgot about and needs 30 pieces cut and weeded asap. Anyway... Pictures of the nozzle print was difficult with the camera I have available...

I'll try that. Don't know if I'll be able to show the yellow though. I'll go do it now.

If you went into his town soliciting work I could understand if he gots upset with you, being friends and all. "He had previously tried to sell that particular job, but they went with us instead." How then could he get upset with you for that? Upset yes. With you? No. The customer came to you...

Printing on an HP 8000. I purchased a roll of ARLON DPF 8000 for a couple of jobs that require it's specific features as it's designed for surfaces which are hard to stick to. I was told by the ARLON rep that there are machine specific profiles on their site, (which there are). But he also said...

"kept messing with the "REMOTE" button, sent the file...and it started cutting but it didn't cut around the specified design." In Mimaki's Fine Cut software there is a tab that reads "Registration Mark". Click that and there's a button labeled "Detect Mark". I don't know if there's anything...

"I tried flipping the media 180....still doesn't work." At the risk of you thinking I'm doubting your common sense, you did flip the file on-screen 180° also? I wish I knew more about cutting out of CorelDraw. Have you tried a different print/cut file to see if you have any success with...

Excellent work, great video. Don't use Corel Draw here but I did start out with it. Moved to Illustrator when I got a job in prepress at a large format printing company. Been using it ever since. I didn't know about your's being a family business. Heart warming actually.

With that type of registration mark on the Mimaki you place the laser anywhere within the imaginary square made by the two lines that form a 90° corner. I always shoot for the laser to be the exact center of that imaginary square but it need not be. Just so it's within the square, not touching...

I wrote the following as part of the procedure of plotting a printed job through Mimaki's Fine Cut software out of Illustrator. However, the portion below should deal with setting up your material in the plotter regardless of which software you are using. Perhaps if you read this over you may...

My suggestion was gong to be what BigCat mentioned. JLD, I'm going to try your suggestion as I've never done that and it would save some time and aggravation.

I'm using a CG 160 through Illustrator CS2 with Mimaki's Fine Cut software. I use the other type of register mark. The one that is 180° from the one you are using. Basically it forms the corners of a box around your print rather than the inverted corner if that makes sense. You may be already...

If by realign you mean to raise the pinch rollers and realign then that's starting over by my definition. If that's the only way then so be it. Thanks for the info on the half-cut feature. I have a a couple hundred small stickers to run next week so I'll try that feature again. Since you've...

I've been talking to MacTac about some other products. I already have the ARLON 8000 in hand. Will be printing this coming week once I get approval on the second PMS color. I'll let y'all know how the installation went. Especially on the painted cement block wall. Already know it prints very well.

Bought a roll of ARLON DPF8000 and it arrived yesterday. Had previously gotten a sample roll that I used for printing color proofs that have now been approved. Well, one of the two current jobs have been approved but that's enough for me to start printing them Monday. This material is supposed...

We have had a Mimaki CG160FX II plotter for three years now. We are using Adobe Illustrator CS2 with Mimaki's "Fine Cut" software. There are still some things that I don't know how to do and they are so fundamental that I'm embarrassed to ask but here goes.. • If I have several things to plot...