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There is no question that the profile creation sequence is much easier and quicker when using the new Latex 360 on-board process. I have been able to get an entire profile built in under 30 minutes, including the ink limiting, calibration/ linearization, and ICC, which is easily (best case) half...

The second image has two nozzles out in the Magenta head. Did you run the Feed Calibration as previously described? I refer it as the 'T' test, and the goal is to get crossbar and vertical stroke to merge as seamlessly as possible into each other on the media in question.

GPGL is a Graphtec plotter language. It is not supported in a Mimaki plotter, although HPGL (Hewlett Packard Graphics Language) version 1 is supported by most plotter brands.

The HP Latex 300 series are contone printers, and you are correct that there are certain functions that are controlled by the printer and the RIP does not have access to. One example of this is the ink splits (transitions between light and dark inks in Cy and Mg). Because the RIP cannot access...

Once the feed calibration has been performed, and the desired value identified for that media, it can be set in the media profile or on the printer via it's control panel.

That looks to be printed on PVC banner media. Banner media is relatively thick, and this thickness causes the need to perform a media feed calibration on the media. This will vary the distance of the media advance to account for the media thickness. This calibration is performed on the printer...

The amount of ink on the media will play a role in the lightfastness of the ink, but only to a point. Oversaturating the media with too much ink will cause premature failure too.

FineCut is not a RIP, and you can't send the print through it. The print would still be sent through the RIP (Onyx) but the cut job could be routed through the FineCut plug-in rather than Onyx Cut-Server.

A lot of smooth banner media PVC products tend to get very soft from the heater systems in the HP Latex 200-series printers. This can cause them to stick to surfaces inside of the printer, and this can in turn cause head strikes. It is not a media profile-related issue as much as a media feed...

Worldwide ship date is Monday 5 May 2014

We placed the first beta Latex 360 in North America last December into a business that had been running light/ mild solvent ink for many years. To say that the owner and employees are thrilled with the Latex 360 would be an understatement. See for yourself...

The print groups within HP have facilities throughout the world. The HP latex inks and printheads are engineered in the USA, the Latex printers are engineered in Barcelona Spain, and printer manufacturing is done in Singapore.

It is a combination of 50 percent faster carriage travel, lower pass counts, less heat in the print zone. This is due to the optimizer in the ink set.

The potential causes of this problem are several: a) Dirty linear encoder/ sensor b) dirty rotary paper feed disk/ sensor c) Leak in ink train d) Failing printhead(s) If you search 'ink dropout' you will see thread after thread dedicated to this issue over the years, with various Roland...

That is consistent with my findings with the Latex 360 machine. From a cold start (sleep mode) the warm-up is 90 seconds until the ink starts to jet. On the Latex 260, it is between 9 and 10 minutes from sleep state. 90 seconds is faster than my solvent machine's warm up time from a cold start...

Look in the Media Explorer under the media menu in Versaworks. Choose the media in the left pane and look for 'W +Pass' in the right side. See attached screen capture.

This is referred to as 'white banding'. It almost always appears in solids or gradients, and can be specific to some colors and not others. We have seen this problem on multiple printer and ink brands (Roland, Mutoh, Mimaki), different types of media (PVC banner, adhesive vinyl, photobase paper)...

It is possible for the ink to be incompletely dried and cured in the printer, and if laminate is applied then a failure is possible. The problem in that case is that the print environment has not been correctly tuned for the media; the print environment includes heat settings, pass counts, ink...

For anyone who is interested the the chemistry of HP Latex inks, here is a video that describes what happens with the HP Latex ink (at the 1 minute mark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Eu2c6pbvTs&list=PL961oV9sNePBt5zOpX0_dqTc OeqjcI4fp It is a completely different chemical action than...

Consider the source. That is a marketing piece written by a 3rd-party solvent ink maker (Bordeaux).