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Hi guys, Anyone else having issues with the 360 going to sleep? I keep getting an error message about the current firmware and if the problem persists to reinstall the firmware. I have done that 3 times but now the machine constantly wakes itself up from sleep or doesn't go to sleep. Have the...

Hi guys, We had a rep come by telling us about DG Cal vinyl to run on our latex and solvent printers. Has anyone had experience with these? What do you think? We are looking at DG PSF100-GG. Thanks, Steve

Hi everyone, We recently printed a job with a large number of 36 x 60" signs on Orafol 3640 Matte with our HP Latex 360. It printed well but afterwards we noticed some vertical streaking where the ink was still a bit damp. It was very inconsistent though, it happened in different places and at...

Hi guys, does anyone recommend a printable reflective with a very good white point? We use 3M IJ680CR and also looking at Oracal 5650RA but they're on the slightly greyer side as the base for printing, are there any others out there that are 'whiter'? Client is asking but we need to print on it...

Hi everyone, I am trying to colour calibrate a profile on Versaworks 5.5.1 with our Roland SolJet Pro 4 XR-640 using an EFI ES-2000 (GretagMacbeth EyeOne). I have tried printing the measurement chart at a bunch of sizes from 100-175% yet when I try to measure the chart every time I get the...

Hi everyone, We currently use a Graphtec FC 8000 to plot mostly vinyl (and some experimental card projects) but we are exploring the option of getting a small flatbed cutter, possibly 4 x 4', that would allow us to also cut substrates such as acrylic, lexan, sintra and di-bond. No more than 1"...

Hi everyone, Has anyone successfully printed on a digital sheet with a wide format printer? It's just an experiment for a job, we have a latex and eco-solvent and I was trying to print 80lb Cougar Cover on our Roland SolJet Pro 4 XR-640, has anyone pulled this off before? Steve

Hi guys, A lot of you may already know this but I discovered this last week and it has been a game changer. No more having to relying on Flexi to do this, which as it turns out will not print on the Roland SolJet Pro 4 until after a job has finished printing on the HP 360 first (but you can...

Hi guys, I know there have been posts about this before but I wanted to ask again about the Ultraflex10oz banner material. After playing around with my settings in lowering the temperature and vacuum the material prints OK now but we still get head strikes after the job has printed when the...

Hi guys, Something strange is happening with our yellow/magenta heads. All was fine, then we had Service Kit 3 replaced (this should be unrelated to this issue) and I noticed banding in prints. After doing some force drop detections which showed the # of blocked nozzles on heads 5 & 6 slowly...

Hi guys, We had some downtime last week so I did some routine maintenance on our HP 360. I cleaned the encoder strip, and the line sensor by the underside of the printheads, but now whenever I load a roll of whatever media it cannot read the width and I have to enter it manually. Has anyone has...

Hi guys, I printed some banners with heavy blue coverage on Ultraflex 14oz blockout banner on our HP latex 360 and see these indentations from the push rollers which are visible on both sides of the material. Any suggestions? I didn't think the heat setting from the printer would cause...

Hi guys, Has anyone seen this before? Ink build-up under the electrical strip on the printhead causing it to become slightly separated? I'm seeing some banding on light pink colours and on the print test pattern have some misaligned nozzles on the YM printhead #5. Simply a case of replace the...

Hi guys, Has anyone had problems with the 3M IJ180 on the HP360 with head strikes? When I load the material it often starts to peel back at the lead edge, also when it pulls the media back after the end of a job I sometimes get a big headstrike causing a media jam/tear. I did see a new warning...

Hi guys, Has anyone experienced on the SolJet Pro 4 XR-640 bad chips on ink cartridges? We have had some recently (unless it is the printer) where during a job or regular ink cycle it will beep to say magenta or cyan is empty then stop and keep printing again. There is no pattern to this just...

Hi guys, We have a SolJet Pro 4 XR-640 and I had sent an eps file to print/plot, just some simple 1.75 x 1.75" circles but as you can see from the pics the tops and bottoms of them look a bit squished and not perfectly round. I have tried changing the blade, cut force, and cutting strip but...

Hi guys, Does anyone know of a kind of take up roll that is available for Graphtec? We have an FC8000-130 and sometimes run large rolls through with many pieces for vehicle wraps which need to stay on the roll for premising etc but it is too much to sit in the bag and drop on the floor. Are...

Hi everyone, not sure if many of you have come across this but say a client does a job with us and we print it and the job is done, if down the road we want to put an example of that work in a portfolio or a website or some other house promotional material, do we need that client's permission...

Hi guys, Does anyone else have the problem with the HP 360 that the sheet cut feature can't cut very thick material? I even tried 13oz scrim banner but it hardly touched it. I did ask our rep if we need a new blade but was told this is normal, what experience has anyone else had? We also have a...

Hi guys, Strange question - a client is looking at some floor decals for a gym that would go down for the event and come up afterwards but to be reused for events during the season. So rather than print 20 or so throw away decals he is looking at one that he can lay down and reuse and relocate...