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I have an old Roland SP300. It has been a work horse for 16 years! Even tho it's been mostly part time and now semi retirement work it's still amazing. The issue that I'm have is when the print head carriage is moving left and right it is making an intermittent scraping noise. I have checked...

I have some temporary outdoor 18 x 24 corr signs to do. Unfortunately I wasn't paying attention and don't have enough printable vinyl. Supplier is out of stock. Anyone's thoughts on using regular white vinyl ( ie Orical 651 ) to print on? These probably won't b up for more than a few weeks.

I have a customer that wants to put SignGold with a red vinyl outline on a 28' custom Mahogany race boat. The normal procedure is to use real gold leaf with painted outline. The boat gets about 5-7 coats of varnish before the lettering is applied. Then it gets 6 - 8 more coats of varnish...

I recently lost my supplier for ink due to that they are only going to sell the 440 ml size of Eco-Sol inks for my Raland SP300. Due to space limitations the 440 size stick out way too far and I'm afraid that I'll hit them and damage something. I have to squeeze past them all the time to...

I am finding dozens of Flexi files that are saying "File Format is not supported" on many of my flash drives. I don't know why this is happening. These files contain hundreds of hours worth of work. I am panicking over this as I am going to need some of these files soon. Seems very random...

This is driving me crazy. I have Flexi 10, w / a Roland SP300. When I try to print a long layout the Production Manager in Flexi somehow automatically is set to 50" for length. I did it again this morning and started printing a 7' banner and forgot to go into the Panel perimeters and change...

I have a customer that want's me to reproduce the sign on his building in a smaller version to bring to trade shows. He wants something lightweight and durable. He wasn't really happy with .040 aluminum or Luster Board type materials. I was thinking of 3/8" or 1/2" PVC but have never seen or...

This seems to be a fairly new issue with applying vinyl. I've heard about the Hydrophobic coatings that are being used on vehicles now ( sometimes called CERAMIC coatings?) and I think that I may have run into my first issue with it. I am having an issue with vinyl not sticking to the glass on...

I need to use a font called "Cachet" . I can find it on font websites BUT, they want $50 for EACH style. There are 16 different styles! I may only need 3 or 4 but its still a lot for ONE font. i.e. Bold, Italic, Light, ect. So my question is. Is it normal to spend $200 or more for a...

Need help. Hours away from tech service. My Roland SP300 is printing crooked. When it is done printing, the contour cut is where it's supposed to be and misses the print by inches. I have actually had the print go completely off the vinyl and on to the printer. I tried adjusting the optical...

Looking for a font that the WMCA uses called CACHET. Anyone know where I could download / purchase? I did find it as a free download but the company said that I would have to use their site as a homepage, Not doin that!

Well You guys probably just saved me thousands of $$$. I was ready to get the tech up here for a head replacement after losing my black (printing only Cyan in place of black) and then losing both colors altogether. you guys steered me in the right direction.:notworthy: So I ordered the fuse for...

This went nowhere but down. Started out when I noticed the colors starting to mix on a test print. (should have ignored it) So I did a cleaning with minor improvement but the black and cyan were still mixing. On to a head soak and then disaster. Black was printing less, cyan comming out of both...

After doing a cleaning and soaking my heads overnight I lost my black altogether (Cyan was printing in place of black). So I have changed the captops and dampers. ( My wife said that when she was priming the damper with ink it went hard at first then suddenly was easy. Maybe a clue? ) anyways...

I am looking for a source for syringes to do maintenance on the Versa Camm sp300.

I have been trying to clean my heads on my SP300 .I wanted to soak the heads so I blocked the pump lines to hold the cleaning fluid in the captops. I returned the print heads to the captops. the printer started to pump and was making a weird straining noise. Then I suddenly realized that the...

I have always used the wet application method for aligning outlines and shadows. I have also used this method for reflective and have good luck. BUT it dose say on all reflective NOT to apply wet. Have I just been lucky? Does anyone know why you're not supposed to use water/ Rapid Tac? I have...

I am trying to print some historical photos that I imported off of my camera ( Jpeg ). When I try to print it tells me that its the wrong data format. when I opened the production manager it is listed as a PDF file. I just upgraded to Flexi 10 and have never seen this before. I've tried...

I am looking into a CNC machine called X CARVE. It is made by Inventables.com. I know that it is more of a home owner type machine but I have never tried doing any type of CNC cutting and found this very interesting. For the price I think that its a good introductory machine :cool1: Has...

From what I have herd on this site everybody wants to use Win 7. But when I talk to my computer freinds they say " why go backwards?" Get Win 8.1 and the free upgrade to Win 10 when it comes out. Any reason why I should use older software instead of getting something that wont be outdated in a...