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we lease a xerox 7655 we had printers on all 8 stations in our shop
was paying around 3to4 hundred a month for ink
lease this puppy for around 4hundred if we are extremely busy any thing over
2000 color and 5000 bk and white runs 8cents for color and 2cents for bk
on top of lease but they...
Need to realign my cyan and yellow print head
the media guide hit it and have hand a blue and yellow
mis alignment since
I have a manual but not detailed enough for me to start
taking heads loose would love the pdf you spoke of the
your post on how to change
If some cost no problem
my...
when they save the file they must convert the fonts to curves or your system will
read and try to change
If not that they will need to send you the font they used and you will have to download
to yours
Have a edge fx and a edge 1 great machines but they are slower and yes you dont have to laminate but it does not hold up much past 3 years out side we do a lot of
police and switched to a mimiki we print refective and if you really want a edge
my fx is for sale
with a vision plotter and...
We print shirts caps signs you name it
use a 6 color M&R sportsman can set up as fast
as a manual
will do as little as 24 pieces and can do 6 to 8 of those kind of orders
in a day no problem with 1 man
no body really going after that size order here so price not so much
a issue as in the...
When you are talking of the orginal
text i am not sure what you mean
and not sure what you are trying
to mask
If you dont get can you post a pic
of what you are working with
It really is a 45 sec application
if i understand fully what you are
doing not sure if it is still in their...
yes If you import lettering in from
photo shop use the magic wand tool
in flexi picking the edges of the lettering make transparent then contour and then if needed Flexi
will let you seperated the contour
so if you need to nudge a point in
you can
Then we rip out to in our case
a...
After bringing in your flatten tiff
are you make it transparent so the
contours pick up in flex
We print lots of wraps and do our
designs in photo shop at 10% at
720 dpi inport in to flex use the wand
in bitmap tools make transpaent
ad contour and usually works
really great
we have ours set to .115 with
shutters at 30% no delay have
the haze a little but not really a issue
We have wondered about ink use
we are not getting the prints that
we were represented as best i can figure
it is more than half again what we were
expecting
Site looks good
Lots of do it yourself types will
love it
hope you do well
Prices are right on line for most high production shops
and especially on line business
wish you well
let us know how it all turns out
we have never had much luck with
the online end of the sign business
but...
We have had a 5445 for about 2 weeks we have already cut our
labor down by about 30 hours a week on part time help that we pay
8 a hour for here
that comes close to paying for the machine not
to mention the doors that are opening up
This is a coro x sign machine not so sure i would buy with...
When printing vector files and text for simple jobs we have found
that useing the orcal 651 colors and the orcal 3651 profiles no matter the
material our colors match the vinly almost perfectly other files
we have struggle but not just grey
Most solvent base printers that have been sitting for any time unless it
was flushed out properly by a tech the heads are more than likely
ruined sounds like i would call company and speak to a tech we run
mimaki and they can not be unplug for any long periods are the heads
are history
We have had the same thing happen in 8 and 7.5 not sure whats up
but when it does it we can never save the print
not a everday deal but in a month it will happen a couple
times
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