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  1. VG 640 Ink waste!

    Is this a normal amount of ink in a week's time with very little usage?? Every other time loading material goes through a clean cycle. Driving me nuts with the waste!! And then a slight clean for test print. (I want to see what the test print shows before a slight clean.) Vg640, TR2 ink...
  2. Platen has no suction? Clean your fan.

    I bought a used Roland SP-300V and it's been working like a dream--except there was barely any suction on the platen, if any. So I watched a YouTube tutorial, took the plates off the front and rear, removed the ducted fan from the assembly and....dust city, population: me. I brushed it and...
  3. Roland VS-540i Test Print Colors Order

    Trying to find out which order the colors of the Test Print are in for a Roland VS-540i so I can find out which color is missing nozzles to flush with cleaning solution. Looking closely at my test print I think the Color Order is Light Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, Light Magenta and...
  4. Black spots in the same place when printing on HP FB750

    Can this thread be deleted?
  5. How to clean a flatbed belt with overprint

    I thought I posted this before, but can't find it. I have a Scitex HP FB750. Does anybody know a good method of cleaning overprint off a flatbed belt. We have years of overprint caked onto the belt, and we are trying to find a better way to get it cleaned off. Some of the overprint is so thick...
  6. Wrapping a Semi (the Rig not the box)

    So I have a wrap job coming up, but before that my client wanted me to throw on some temp decals until they can get it to me. While doing the temp decals today, I noticed, it had some spots that were super smooth and did not want to stick. The body is a painted fiberglass, this is not a new...
  7. Mimaki CJV 150-75 HeadStrike?

    Hello all, I am troubled. We had some fuzziness on a print yesterday. I figure it was from static. My boss suggested running a nozzle check, just to make sure. it was not good. We had quite a few missing pieces. No big chunks but a few here and here all over the print. So I ran a cleaning. Now...
  8. Need Help Best process to remove ghosting on brushed aluminum

    Hello, I am new to the industry as an installer. I have a project which requires me to remove vinyl lettering from an exterior brushed aluminum sign and install new vinyl lettering. I am very confident their will be some ghosting once I remove the existing vinyl lettering. What are my options...
  9. Question [Cleaning & Ink Filling up] JV33-160A

    Hello, everyone! As using JV33-160A, there are many problems. The big issue was solved today with helpful advise of the member "Solventinkjet". And the other issue is the banding and color change. I printed on PET Film with aqueous pigment. But there are too many banding problems. After...
  10. 460GT head clean and disable

    Hey team double barrled question here. Firstly, does anyone use NMP on their heads to clean them. I have previously used it on other machines (KM512 heads) and had amazing results at cleaning deflection and blockages. artbot can you answer this one? Secondly, my varnish and white heads never...
  11. Print / Production Environments - How Strict Are You?

    Curious what measures everybody takes to maintain a clean print/production environment? What tools, equipment and procedures to you follow to try and prevent contaminates ending up in a print/sign? We're moving to a new shop in roughly 6 weeks and one of the things I want to do is control...
  12. Avoiding Full Bleed Printing on FB750 Belt

    I've found a few threads on how to clean the belts on the HP flatbeds, but does anybody have tricks to avoiding having to clean the bed at all when doing full bleed prints? We do a TON of full bleed boards and putting tape on the bed to catch the bleed from the sides of the boards works well...
  13. Question Roland Cleaning. New Kit vs Old Kit?

    Hello, my authorized Roland supplier sent me a Cleaning Kit (ESL5) instead the one (SL) I used to buy for cleaning my VS and SC. As I know ESL5 is for cleaning Eco-Sol Max 3 printers, but the supplier said that from now on, Roland has only this cleaning Kit (ESL5) for all Eco-Sol printers. I...
  14. Newb Question: Does Anyone Reclaim Acrylic (plexiglass) Sheets?

    Before Gino comes storming in with his booze, does anyone reclaim old acrylic sheets? I usually toss them on the side of the street or use them as garage sale signs, but i want to know if it is possible to remove all the yellow from sun damage over the years?
  15. Foam Cleaning Swabs?

    Where is everyone buying their Foam Cleaning Swabs? We used to order from griots garage qty200 for $22.00, but it seems they do not carry them any longer. Anyone else have any good leads? It's time for us to re-up and our source is gone :(
  16. Need Help Epson gs6000 stuck in cleaning cycle

    I was doing a light cleaning on the printer and the display screen read cleaning please wait but never went back to main screen... I can turn it off and on but goes straight into cleaning mode and it will keep running cleaning cycles... anyone had this problem???
  17. Roland VS-540 Black Bad nozzle test

    as of a couple of days ago, I started having this issue. The black is going from printing nicely to approx 50% injection after about 20" of printing. Powerful cleaning get the print test back to 98% on black, all other color stay at 100% with beautiful print test. Print head - all dampers -...
  18. Need Help VS300 Printing issue

    Hopefully someone can help me with a small problem we're having. We have a VS300 that has drop out problems on one or two colors. I've done all the recommended fixes; manually cleaning, machine cleaning, changed the wiper scrapper, changed the cap station, changed felt and rubber wipers and...
  19. SP300V - blue printing darker after manual cleaning.

    Hi everyone, Happy New years eve! As I head into 2017 I wanted to give my printer a cleaning since the blue and black print heads were deflecting a little. So I went a head and put in a cleaning cartridge and drew the cleaning solution through the blue/black print head with a syringe. I...
  20. Servprog.exeNeeded for Epson GS6000

    I need the Servprog.exe profile Needed for Epson GS6000my epson hangs on please wait cleaning,. does anybody now what the problem is. how can i reset the epson cleaning to exit problem
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