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Hey all - looking for some unorthodox advice - we are attempting to print on a relatively heavyweight coated material with a custom coating. Everything is going great except for one huge problem: the coating on the top has a bit of a dusty feel to it, and after loading the material, after a few...

Hi all - quick question. My boss and I are planning on going to our paper coater's facility for a production run in the next month or so. Due to our manufacturing process, we buy a custom-made paper that requires special coating, but we are tweaking the coating still to make sure we lock in what...

Hey folks, I have an unusual problem both I cannot diagnose and neither can our IT guy. We have installed Onyx Thrive RIP on both a local PC here at my office, as well as a virtual PC that is located off-site at our corporate office, but which I can access remotely and control. Our one z6810 is...

Brief question.... am I crazy/missing something, or is this just a design flaw in this printer? When a cartridge runs out of ink mid-job, can the z6810 really not pick up where it left off, as its predecessor (the z6100) did? This is so ridiculous. When a cartridge runs out, I can no longer just...

Well, update! All it was was an over-used pair of Matte Black and Chromatic Red heads. I have been really busy lately and thus haven't been keeping up on checking the status of our heads. I usually replace them when they hit 100%, and this time the front panel of the printer told me 'printheads...

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Title is my issue... I replaced the Magenta-Yellow print heads in my HP DesignJet z6810 on Tuesday, and it seems like since then, when I print anything from our normal Onyx RIP, no settings having been changed, the front 1" or so will be a lighter color than the rest of the print. In darker...

We also have a Latex 370 and profile it on the front panel (though it communicates with Onyx), and we've found that for solid colors it's extremely consistent. No reprofiling needed if we just consistently run a color calibration 2-3 times a week.

I think we tried this option already and got a strange error in the profiling window of Onyx saying that when I try to go down that route, that mode is only for separations, or can only be used with separations, something to that notion. Separations to me usually imply a 3 or 4-color PHYSICAL press.

Really struggling here... let me see if I can explain this. I work in a shop with one HP DesignJet z6100 and now we have purchased an HP DesignJet z6810 as well. We aren't TOO concerned with profiling the one to match the other (as one printer would need to be 'dumbed down' to match the other's...

I'll keep it short and sweet - would any Mimaki JV-33 or JV-5 users out there happen to have an extra bulk cartridge of ink I could buy from you? Triangle JVV Eco Solvent, 2 liter, Magenta. Having never been notified of this change by our supplier (because we only buy very little ink), we just...

Interesting, I thought they had a piezo head! We are getting some benchmark testing done soon, hopefully, on the P6000. Even with thermal you've only replaced the heads once?? In how long of a time span?

We print almost exclusively outdoor signage with high-quality photos and fine text that are at a very close reading distance, so we need to preserve as much detail as we can. We print on a custom-coated bond paper that's particular to our manufacturing process. I have built lots of custom...

I didn't mention this in my original thread but we actually also have an HP 370. For our normal business where we do high-quality graphics, we need something with a more precise printhead, so we only do one specific job on the 370 that is just a one-color sign with white text. We are finding...

That's really good to know about the Epson, thanks VanderJ. We will not be purchasing another solvent printer, no way no how. It does not play nice with our final manufacturing process, hence why we're looking for an aqueous next-step. And I get that about the disposability, we spend quite a lot...

Hi all, We're in the market for new printers. Trying to upgrade our current fleet after looking at some things at ISA this year. One thing I did not love is that when you're at shows like that, of course each vendor is trying to convince you that their technology is superior to the other...

That's what I'm asking for - what particular settings do you use that help you achieve that tight text? I've built lots and lots of profiles on this machine, but I find that it's hard to get as much control over them as you can on, let's say, another printer where you can do the profiling in...

Unfortunately solvent printing doesn't play nice with our particular signage process. We have a Mimaki for a different product and I can say in only the most polite way that that machine is a huge pain in the tush... we would prefer to not go down the solvent route.

Good suggestion, though we regularly change out our printheads once they have fired enough to illicit the OUT OF WARRANTY designation in the ink panel on-screen. I will keep an eye on them though.

It's on a particular coated paper made specifically for our manufacturing process. Without saying too much it's a heavyweight matte coated paper with OBAs in it. Pretty standard. I've made profiles based off HP's Superheavyweight Matte base as well as other manufacturers. The text is vector...