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Hmm. Guess I missed that. That puts it on par with the other dedicated flatbed models, then. The only question is what the price point is going to be set at.

Gen 5 print heads? If they're using Ricoh like the JV400, it's Gen 4 -- Ricoh hasn't launched a Gen 5 head yet AFAIK. And there's no mention of such a thing on their website, either. Other than that, looks interesting. No roll print option however. That might turn off some sign shops.

That's actually a Korean bulk ink system made by NITE Industrial. Nice system, though. The cartridges can have resetters built in.

I'm sure we've all been pissed off at Epson's price gouging for spares at one point or another. But saying that a $90 part, to fix a $1k+ head, is unreasonable? In what universe? We all need to eat, don't we? Jeez. Your reply was kind of funny, until you realize that the post it was in reply...

Well, forgive me for stating the obvious, but the WT7900 will only print on water-receptive substrates. Can you get your metallic materials with a water based coating?

Vinylman, Seriously, cut the snark. I haven't found any manifolds under $90 from any suppliers, Chinese or otherwise. The fact is that it's an 8-channel manifold, with very complicated passageways and integrated filters. I doubt the mold was cheap to set up -- at least $10,000 -- and the...

Hi all, We recently had a few heads get clogged up as a result of a botched shutdown, thanks to the incompatibility of the QS Series 2 ink with Vutek's own head conditioner. Question is, I've been using 100% acetone to try and recover the heads (the Vutek head conditioner is about 50%...

The original Falcon and Falcon II pumps used latex tubing. In the solvent models, it was "double coated" with something to give it solvent resistance. The Toucan LT used a Tygon-like Japanese tubing. Tygon fits, but it's stiffer and breaks faster. The white gear inside the pumps will not...

There have been a number of Indonesian scams going on for the last few years. Avoid like the plague.

Yes, you can. That was actually the spec for the first machine we installed Caldera on. However, the Caldera interface doesn't mesh well with OS X (it's an X11 app). I find that Caldera just generally behaves nicer when you run it with their Debian distro (it's included, by the way). But...

It runs fine on a Core 2 system with about 2 GB of RAM. More is usually better; we have another machine with an i7-2600, 4 GB RAM, and an SSD that blazes through stuff. It just depends on your budget.

The usual grade of Tygon (2375) will work in the peristaltic pumps for a while, but it's a little more rigid than the OEM tubing which is made in Japan if I recall, and will burst after several weeks of use. (That's based on experimentation in a Toucan LT). The white latex tubing used in the...

Almost too flexible and it gets a little bit confusing. Basically, you can add information to the crop marks, AND you can have annotations at the end of the job. The crop mark information is always duplicate of the annotations, and you can pick and choose what you want at the crop marks, but not...

If the control panel is yanked on an LT while the power is still on, or even if there's residual power in the machine, it can easily blow the display. Get a new display and be CAREFUL with the connections. This stuff is expensive -- you wouldn't just go yanking parts out of your $3000 Dell XPS...

If it's still in production use, go take a look at it. That's your best bet if you haven't had one before. Still, around $5k for a working LT is a pretty good deal. You can find them for less, but they have usually been broken for a while when you hit the $2500 range. FYI, if an LT needs all...

Wow. AGFA has managed to make the Israelis running EFI-VUTEk look generous in comparison. That's no small feat.

Well, it's a no-brainer for replacing the smaller HP printers. Very similar print quality. The Jeti 3318 might be a different story, depending on how it's been functioning. LX850s excel at backlit, given proper materials, and also do a pretty good job of double-sided print registration...

As far as the maintenance goes with printers running SEPIAX, this was my experience with running and maintaining several printers with that ink: - SEPIAX won't clog in the heads like solvent inks will, meaning that a machine can be turned off for up to a month without flushing, and it only...

I suppose it has to do with the frequency of the flushing. When you flush on the pad, it only spits there once for every 5 passes. When you flush on the media, it's constantly spitting on both sides of the media, which supposedly uses more ink.

Please note that I'm not talking about the hard drive in your RIP PC... that has next to nothing to do with print line errors. I'm talking about the two SCSI drives attached to the Linux workstation inside the Vutek. Vutek recommends doing a low-level format from the SCSI controller, then...