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Media Profiles for most large-format printers are specific to the RIP that is driving the printer, and a profile built for one RIP is worthless in any other RIP, even though they might be for the same printer model, media, resolution etc. As such, the manufacturer of your RIP should be the place...

You are apparently both located within the same city (Irvine CA), I would think you could drop in and get an installation disk for Versaworks from Roland...or not.

Both Mimaki and Roland offer multiple printers, with different classes of ink available, depending on the application. The bulk of both companies' sales have been printers with solvent ink (or variations thereof), but both also offer disperse dye sublimation inks that are primarily used for...

Wow that is off by a huge amount. Have you performed the user-level print & cut calibration? Instructions for this are in your User Guide, if you don't have the card copy of the guide, you can download the PDF version from Roland's web site www.rolanddga.com

Printing on transparent/ clear media using a printer that does not have white ink, it is typically a challenge to obtain colors that pop. This is due to the fact that white print media provides a platform to bounce colored ink off. With clear media, there is no such platform, so colors typically...

I've seen that occur in very low humidity print rooms (below 25 percent rh). The dry air can cause electrostatically induced firing of ink, and static discharge causes the ink to be drawn to the media.

I think you will likely end up driving the latex printer from Caldera. Flexi is a good design environment for cutting, or for routed output, but print is best designed in Adobe apps and run through a professional grade RIP software. You've made some good software and equipment decisions in my...

There are no viable alternatives (from a functionality standpoint, aside from used equipment) for under ~$6k that I am aware of. I am continually amazed at the number of people who will happily plunk down around $29,995 (list price for the XR-640) but don't see the need to spend an additional 7...

If the results were identical, that does not point to a color management issue as the root cause of this. I would look next at: Print room environment - is the humidity in the print room above 25-30 percent? If it is below that range, you can get ink spontaneously jetted due to static...

You are looking for a device that can generate ICC Profiles for both RGB display and CMYK printer-based profiles. That rules out the spyder, which can do only the former. I would recommend the i1 Pro 2 device, packaged with the necessary software, called i1Profiler. Here is a link...

So are you saying that you have performed the test that I offered (print a vector-based CMYK file with color management preset set to Density Control Only)? If so, what were the results? You are the one requesting that others offer to help, and I'm offering you a way to narrow down the possible...

I would guess that it is related to your color management settings. One easy way to check is to use a CMYK-based vector file (EPS or PDF) that has areas that are supposed to be un-inked (the inside of the letter O for example) and print it through the RIP (I'm assuming that you use Versaworks)...

Is everyone who has seen this issue seeing it specifically with black/ darker red color combinations? One more thing you can do on the L26500 (with current firmware v8 or higher) is to use the Inter Swath Delay (Ink Menu > Image Quality Maintenance > Inter Swath Delay) and set it to .5 seconds...

Fabric is a very different animal than PCV banner. Often times it costs more, has higher waste due to webbing, and has very different finishing requirements such as sewing. All of this adds up to fabric being more costly to produce, particularly in small quantities. Asking someone to fabricate a...

Use a new 60 degree blade, with 3M Electrocut vinyl. I've cut, weeded and applied 1/10 inch high letters (8 point) using this combination.

Dye sublimation is probably the ink chemistry of choice for flag applications. There is a MM here that does dye sub, and there are several large wholesale operations that offer this as well, including Tex Visions, WS Display and more.

I have seen this happen on the L2 series printers before. What can happen is that the printheads begin to overheat during longer print runs, causing nozzle dropouts, or other print artifacts. The L265 and L285 have newer firmware that allows for a very short pause between print passes (Inter...

To my knowledge, the ColorMunki device is intended to produce ICC printer profiles exclusively for driver-based workflows. These are typically RGB swatch sets, in spite of the fact that the desktop printer uses CMYK inks. RIPs on the other hand, generally require CMYK-based swatch sets, and...

I would look into initially outsourcing your print work, until the volume of work justifies bringing it in-house. This approach will also allow you to learn about the advantages and limitations of the various ink technologies that are used in the digital wall coverings market, including solvent...

I don't believe that it is possible for a media profile from your RIP to cause printheads to come out of alignment. Typically, replacing a printhead, or a head strike can cause this, but not the use of a media profile in your RIP.