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Hi All Just updated my Roland SP300 to a VS540I, mainly because I need to print silver decals. or decals with silver content. Have been using Freehand for over 10 years now and know it well. In the past was exporting .eps files to the sp300 and printing them out nicely. Now though I cant...

Does this sound feasible. I have some decals to print that require silver components. In the past I have just printed on plain vinyl and cut silver bits from seperate media and slipped them in and then clear laminated over the top. It works but its time consuming and prone to misalignment. I...

I just ran out of Cyan ink in my SP300, usually keep a spare cart but changing over to Bordeaux inks soon so haven't a spare. No shops open here til 7th of Jan. Aaaargh, I just need to do some cutting but it seems since I set ink control to "cont" the machine refuses to start up and just sits...

A potential customer called me the other day and asked if I could cut out some bumper stickers for him. It seems he has received a shipment of bumper stickers that have not been cut out. I proceeded to tell him I could easily make him some new stickers and cut them out on my SP300 but he...

My SP 300 has been giving me hours of grief lately with poor cuts. Sometimes it works OK and other times it is almost impossible to weed out the vinyl. It just doesn't cut deep enough, I have replaced the blade several times but just doesn't seem to help. Have upped the cutting pressure but for...

Hi all This problem is slowly driving me crazy. I have an SP300 running colorip, a while back I had to re-install colorip on my laptop (xp) after a crash. Ever since then I keep getting a font substitution notice when I am printing decals that have text in them. I have been getting around this...

Please help, I previously had a setting in print properties (colorip-SP300) that allowed a pause between printing, it was a value of seconds you could set. It caused the print head to pause. I found it useful when printing out decals with dark colours. It allowed the ink to set a little and...

Hi all Just a question on cleaning the SP300. I ordered some cleaning swabs but I'm trying to figure out what the cleaning fluid is you use with these. I'm being told the cleaning fluid is just ink with no pigment, its over $100 for a bottle but is this what you are supposed to use. Guessing...

Hi All Finally got myself a printer after much scrounging and saving. Should have done this years ago I thought to myself. My new (used) SP300 was delivered a couple of weeks ago. I spent the first week making a dust proof room in my garage to house the thing and hopefully keep it happy...

Hi All I'm looking at buying a Roland Cammjet CJ500 , seller says machine has low hours (100) but just wondering if there is any way you can tell the actual hours?? Any issues with the CJ500 or things I should be concerned about, not sure on its age but guessing around 5 years or so.

Hi OK, I have my eye on a Gerber Edge II actually being sold by one of the guys on this forum. Thing is he is just selling the Edge, no plotter, no foils no dongle (whatever that is) Just wondering how much am I going to be up for to get all this working. Looks like I need a plotter, foils...

Hi all After doing some research and asking a few questions on what would be the best printer to buy for my requirements (making motorcycle decals) it seems the Gerber edge is the pick. Now having decided which printer to buy I'm wondering what sort of things go wrong with these units and what...

Hi all I've been pondering over buying some sort of printer cutter for some time now and from what little I know Roland seems to be the choice. I even bought a PC50 off ebay a while back but was highly encouraged to unload it as they are not a good unit. I'm thinking I should get a themal unit...

Just wanted to mention a problem I had with my creation cutter recently, I noticed it stopped cutting for no particular reason, I couldn't see any up and down movement of the cut head while it was working. I discovered the thumb screw that clinches the blade holder was tightened too far, this...

Hi all I know this is a chinese cutter and you may well say thats what you get but would appreciate any helpful input on this. Recently my cutter has been getting halfway through a job and then for no reason the cut head just scrolls to the left side of the machine til it hits the cutout...

Hi All I got this Roland Printer, was sold as is and in damaged condition, description says case busted but thats about all. I'm in the process of shipping this one back home :Australia and I'm starting to wonder if it will ever go again, fortunately I got it cheap so figured it was worth the...

Hi I need to make up some signs for an automotive workshop, just basic sign such as " Brake & Clutch Repairs" and Steering & Suspension" I have searched for some .eps clipart I can use to pretty up the signs but no luck so far, any ideas where I can find something like this?? Cheers

Hi all Couldn't get deep south for a user name so had to settle for deep six. I have some questions I hope someone can answer. I run a small specialist web based business supplying aftermarket and reproduction parts for old honda ATCs, my site is www.atcheaven.com I want to re-produce decals...