Recent content by tedbragg

I’m about to do a top to bottom calibration — but I always feel like I’m chasing my tail—the procedures rarely complete

We don’t have white ink in our 700. The substrates are foam board and e-panel/max metal…they’re super smooth

What can I do to smooth out these ridges and eliminate overspray? Heads were down to 0.065 and it still looks like this

I’m trying to find which calibration / adjustment I need to do to fix the print head leading buildup (happening on all of them, but not all the time! ???). The picture is from today’s run on roll vinyl. Setting was Indoor Plus. Happens on other settings too, but hides well on coroplast. We’re...

I just tried this and it worked like a charm! Thanks. I might make a short tutorial video showing my long way and then this artboard export method

I have four huge window wall sections (16 panes each). These panes are all different sizes, and the dividing metal framing has different thicknesses -- which makes the RIP's built-in tiling feature moot. What I did for the first section: Copied and pasted the image 16 times into the AI layout...

VW 6 is ”64 bit’ but the real question I have is, can it make use of multiple cores? VW Dual and ver5 are single core only. If 6 truly is multi core, then we won’t need to upgrade our Athlon x4 640…sure, a newer setup would be ideal but we’re stuck with what we have for now.

YES! That’s the exact same ones

I've been trying for MONTHS to locate a pair of these for our ROLAND. The unit came with a built-in dispenser spindle for the vinyl rolls, but it's warped now and causing problems. I've used THESE things at my last job -- they stick into each end of the vinyl roll, the twist handle tightens it...

Our FB700 has a weird problem: Outdoor Signage Plus (600 x 300) has a cleaner print than Indoor Plus (600 x 600) ::see attached pics:: I did a manual BIDI registration and the LC heads are totally shot…it couldn’t print a line just a tiny swath of blur. Turning on Fine Text helps a lot, but...

Whenever contour cutting is required, we print on 4x8 sheets, THEN cut. Coro warps, curls and deforms like MAD when it's cut, so best to have the entire sheet to suck down while printing.

I use Caldera VR 8+ (stop laughing) and Optiscout 7. When running jobs with cutlines, Caldera saves out the OXF file to Opti, but it's always 0.08" to 0.1" off. This is no matter if I manually create the cutlines or if VR8 generates it. Selecting the cutlines and scooching them over -0.08" does...

We're having a weird overspray problem with our cyan/lt cyan colors. How can we fix this? Cleaned the heads, ran the auto-calibration routines -- and its still doing this. What's happening here? Happens on all materials, including metal (with ionizer enabled)

I'd like to replace our XR-640 -- its white ink system leaves a LOT to be desired (plus it's slow as a glacier), but have yet to find which brands/types of printer tech to go with. What say ye?

Are there any guides (official or unofficial) for replacing the internal hard drive for the FB700 series? I'm aware it's not SATA but some kind of IDE mutant. Also, the drive has to be cloned bit-for-bit (I've got the hardware to do this). Is there a thread on here going thru this?