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Frank, Thank you. By flushing the head, do you mean filling a syringe with cleaning fluid, pulling the damper off the back of the printhead, plugging in the syringe where the damper attaches, and letting it (gently!) drip through the head? I have not yet done that, but it's a brand new...

I sympathize. I wish I had more info but I'm afraid I've never done it myself. I'm giving up fixing my JV3-160sp and I'm about to post the parts for sale. However, the two heads I recently bought have labels that supposedly have head IDs, and they look like this: 8934C1 TXS0XXR T...

I posted in another thread about two new print heads. I haven't actually installed those yet, because I'm seeing some ink starvation in one the other two printheads, which were already professionally replaced by a skilled mimaki tech. We the black and magenta heads replaced, but the black...

Thanks, that's very reassuring. The dropplets here are magenta. Hard to tell if they're dry or liquid. They don't seem to move. Should I drop cleaning solution on them, or just ignore them?

Thanks Artbot, You think it'll work okay in the printer?

Okay, what about the not-clear dots on these photos? We had two of the four heads replaced last month, by an excellent technician. Unfortunately the remaining two heads also need to be replaced. I paid attention, took notes and discussed the install process with him. I'm pretty sure I can...

We bought a couple of new printheads online. Attached are the photos. There appear to be some shiny dots, and some droplets. Should I send these back? Also attached are some PDFs showing how to replace the print heads, from those who've done this, any comments, suggestions, clarifications or...

Folks, We have a mimaki jv3-160sp. We had rasterlink pro III, but our rip station's hard drive died. We have rasterlink pro II with the original install media and the dongle. When we reinstalled, we found we didn't have the upgrade from II to III. Mimaki no longer offers the upgrade...

This is almost certainly the case. To use the information superhighway metaphor, most people have 8 lane driveways leading to 4 lane surface roads, leading to a 1-lane onramp to the information superhighway.

I've never been a fan of GoToMyPC, probably because I was used to VNC when I first encountered gotomypc, and by comparison gotomypc seemed pretty clunky. VNC works very well, has been around for a long time, and is heavily used in geek circles. I don't actually use any sort of desktop...

This looks nice. I've been looking for alternatives for printing large photo art. Just printing on straight vynl seems tacky, while art canvases like Neschen Pure Monet are classy, but seem somewhat muted. So far the best idea I've come up with is printing on adhesive and mounting that on...

Line art seems to be the popular thing these days. Is there black or other colored vinyl for cut vinyl signs that is also suitable for a rough brick wall? I.e. like mactac rough rap, or 3m envision wrap, or alumigraphics, something that will conform to a rough surface, but just plain colored...

Just an update. The cyan overspray seems to have been greatly reduced. There's still a light haze, but nowhere near as bad. We did a bunch of extended nozzle washes, and then finally did a 24 hour nozzle wash. That might have been what fixed it, but as it happened, one of the cyan ink...

I haven't purchased anything from them yet, I was looking for new material options.

I was talking to a vendor last week about their wall wrap product for rough surfaces (sort of like MacTac Rough Rap). He said they recommend installing the unlaminated wall wrap first, then applying laminate over it, while it's on the wall. Is this normal? I had the impression it was...

If you just want to get it out of your shop, offer it on Craigslist, pretty sure somebody will take it to part it out. I've been thinking about looking for old printers for this purpose, not for repairing other printers, but for salvaging parts to donate to the local hackerspace (hackpgh.com)...

Did you ever find a vendor? A customer just asked me about printing 20-25 2x3 movie posters for a promotional event. I'd like to be able to refer him to somebody.

In this particular thread I'm looking for alternatives to canvas, but I'm interested in discussing other canvas products too, perhaps in another thread or privately? I'm not sure what "resembles canvas but isn't true canvas" means. We've been using Neschen Monet and Sunbrella Vivitex for...

We've had a couple requests for an alternative to canvas for photo art prints. Any suggestions on what material to use for this? We do our canvas art prints mostly on Neschen Monet. Though we just completed a set of streetlightbanners for a local municipality on Sunbrella Vivitex, that came...

Do, now I see you mentioned spray. Thanks.