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My remark about the print line error being "unfixable" was more of a snide remark directed at Vutek. I've talked to their techs and have been told that random, once-every-other-month or so print line errors are basically normal for the QS series. Anything more frequent than that is usually due...

No, no real issues with Vutek... besides EFI's price gouging on parts and service since the takeover, that is. And some annoyance with the lack of any real troubleshooting information in the "service documentation". Compared to manufacturers of smaller machines like Mutoh, their service docs are...

What's Vutek doing that's so unique? I haven't seen much to suggest they're really doing anything besides switching (some of) their UV machines to use LED lamps.

Ah, the good old print line error... the bane of any Vutek owner. Vutek's usual suggestion whenever print line errors become common is "reformat and reinstall". If that doesn't fix it, then they move on to the throwing-parts-at-the-problem-until-it-goes-away stage. If all else fails, it's just...

Regardless of whether he's legit or not (using his own company name or the one that the printers are actually located at)... An inconsistent, intermittent dark banding like that is almost always due to media feed and tensioning issues. If you're running large rolls, the feed motor has to strain...

Second on the head cables. If you have any kind of bad connection, it can cause all sorts of mischief with prints. Tip: Discharge all power to the machine before attempting anything with the head cables. By that, I mean turn the machine off, unplug it, and then press the power button in and out...

Are the chips positioned exactly right? There's a tech bulletin on the Mutoh site that discusses smart chip placement you may want to check.

I've found that it's generally easier to pull cleaner through the heads rather than pushing. Less chance of breaking the delicate gasket seal inside the head manifold, and it also does a better job of cleaning the filter screens inside the manifold out. Having said that, there are heads that...

You probably should have just posted a new thread rather than resurrecting one from 2009. Anyway, as far as your question... I'd check the encoder mechanism for the media advance. Since that's a hybrid flatbed, it should be either a disk mounted on the end of the driving shaft, or an enclosure...

Rick, Is the magenta ink getting sucked past the F connector, or is it stopping there? I'm wondering if the F connector somehow got clogged.

Luehrs has an EcoMax 24, as they already stated above. PSA and vinyl will work, if you're using a good material and have the heater settings dialed in. Cheaper PSAs and vinyls may have issues at temperature. Basically, Graphics One's goal with the EcoMax system was to provide an out of the box...

The Mutoh hybrid flatbed worked well with SEPIAX. Not perfect, since the machine wasn't designed for it and ink didn't flow through the stock system perfectly (too many valves and fittings, and not enough positive pressure). The same sort of hot air curing setup, with a rigid flatbed table...

I played with one for a while, and it's a nice machine all things considered. They basically ripped Roland's design off as much as they could, and kitbashed it together with Mutoh-influenced parts (for the DX5 head carriage). The electronics are all local design, however. Print quality is...

I notice they say it's an 8 channel head with 720 nozzles per color. That's double the width of a "DX5" or "DX6" generation head, which had 8 channels, 360 nozzles per color. It's not a "DX7" since AFAIK that's what everyone is calling the SP 7900 ten channel head. This sounds like a totally...

Everything I've heard about the Ricoh print heads has indicated that they're pretty damn tough. Since it's a relatively new generation, the adoption hasn't been too widespread but they're already in use in a number of Chinese printers (and some UV printers from other companies too, apparently)...

Much, much more secure. For someone to sniff packets on your network, they would actually have to be physically connected. You would have to actually turn off wireless at the router, however, to be completely secure. If you really want to be anal about it, unplug all your computing...

Each button press should only take 1 second at most, with minimal delay between keypresses. I always have to run through the whole sequence quickly, then hit power while holding the last 3. Like I said before, the timing is critical -- if I don't get it right, the machines here will beep at me...

I've seen similar messages asking for things like HP toner cartridges via email. At first it was easy to spot since they wanted to do weird things like wire transfers from Cambodia. Then they started using stolen info in the US, and they always want to pay by credit card. Of course the credit...

I'm a little confused why everyone in the other thread said to first spell out the "V" from left to right, then hold the buttons from right to left. Every Roland I've tried the combination on works if you just press and hold the buttons for the V from right to left, without pressing them once...

Caldera upgraded their ICC color engine from i1Prism v1 to i1Prism v2 with version 9. i1Prism v1 is basically the engine that was used in Gretag ProfileMaker 5, while i1Prism v2 is what's running behind X-Rite i1Profiler. My shop's running it for a number of dye sub printers and an HP Scitex...