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  1. Making street and traffic signs

    Flatbed printers do a nice job on aluminum blanks. Sometimes have to be cleaned with 99% isopropyl alcohol. Sometimes they need to be wiped with adhesion promoter. Flatbed printers use a UV light to cure the ink. but anything you put outdoors should be laminated. The first flatbed I ever used...
  2. Rip Error in Flexi Production Manager...

    Whats the specs on your computer? Ram, CPu, HD.
  3. Expensive Upgrades!

    got it thanks
  4. Color Profiles

    "2. where you start using K in the ICC. Start "earlier", IOW lower number for more efficient ink usage. Start "later", IOW higher number for smoother, less grainy printing. Early K start for UV would be between 10-40. Late K start for smoother printing would be around 40-60." Could you expand...
  5. Graininess in my images

    140 and 200
  6. Graininess in my images

    On the Jeti 3150x2 I got some graininess that showed up in my prints and I was wondering what causes it. It just started doing that. I'd like it to be smoother. Colors look good just needs to be not so grainy. I wrote a profile and it was worse but colors are good. Using Onyx 10.1/Uv Ink Gandi...
  7. Color Profiles

    I made a profile color looks nice but its a bit grainy. Anyone know how to fix that? Im using a flatbed printer uv ink. Printing on Styrene. Using Onyx 10.1 to profile with and the I1 from xrite. Cwb.
  8. Expensive Upgrades!

    Got the upgrade to 10.1 onyx Friday. I'll get to play with it more tomorrow. However it looks like I still have to upgrade the Eye 1 :( Cause it seems to be stuck on 1 patch at a time instead of reading a whole row of patches at once.
  9. Expensive Upgrades!

    Thanks for all the response. Im doing the upgrade.
  10. Expensive Upgrades!

    Onyx Ver 10. $995 Eye One Basic Pro $995 Is it just me or is there a problem here? Does anyone know if Onyx Version 10 is worth it? Im starting to doubt this whole color thing. I think were being gouged. Does anyone want to expand on this?:toasting:
  11. Xrite I1 Basic

    Besides Flexi. What other design software works well with the I1? I want to be able to measure a single color from any type of material and place it in the artwork. I currently have Onyx Rip, Illustrator,Photshop, Freehand. Thx CWB
  12. Recruiting sites

    One more thing just thought of. you can use this site to search nationwide or worldwide a little faster. http://www.searchtempest.com/
  13. Recruiting sites

    might try http://www.signweb.com/forum/help-wanted or indeed.com or craigslist
  14. test print - black - isn't correct

    Soaking the heads more often is good as mentioned above. Also I little trick I found was take a small squeeze bottle witha needle point on it. put that oem solvent you use to clean the heads with and carefully shoot solvent into the heads without touching them with the needle point. Especially...
  15. Mimaki Error

    There are two manuals here under the Jv3 series column download them and you may find your problem. http://www.mimaki.co.jp/english/download/manual/
  16. I hate this printer

    Well its running now. I reset it twice and it started working. The only thing is right now I dont like the black its printing. its not 100% black. But Im in the middle of a job and I cant change the color in the middle of this job. The only thing I know to do is raise the ink restriction in the...
  17. Mimaki JV3 160sp

    Its on the Lower leftside of the printer. either back or side. inside you'll see a board find the one that has a battery size of a nickle or so. pull it out stick it back in. Turn your printer on see what happens.
  18. Mimaki JV3 160sp

    pull the cmos battery out of the board on the left lower side panel and stick it back in. Its by the firewire plugin.
  19. I hate this printer

    There's a new problem everyday. Now the ink bucket has a problem going up. The screen says heads are capped. checked air, reset printer fixed it temporarily. Gandi Jeti 3150 x2. Out of Ideas. Cwb
  20. Another Gandi Question LOL

    What method do you use to profile material with?
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