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My experience is with the Arizona 460GT. We use the 256 inks and are pretty pleased with them. They are a good compromise between the gamut of the 258 and the adherence of the 255 inks (those numbers may be round the other way). I changed out the clear ink on ours, as without a clean room, the...

My experience is with an Arizona 460GT (and a JF1631 before it), but may be some help to you. I've taken the varnish out of the machine & am running CMYKWW now. Although the flatbed work area looks very clean, it is contaminated by airborne paper dust from our large offset area. You'd swear...

Oooo...colour matching...sometimes I think World Peace would be easier! :Big Laugh Heck, it's a miracle we get as close as we do to matching. Our clients scan stuff on RGB scanners and create artwork on RGB monitors selecting PMS colours, then we have to match their colours with 4 colour...

+1 :thumb: I stand mine on strips of timber (2x1) to let the solvent "fall" out of the roll. Unwind your roll as much as you can - like 18" - 24" diameter. It's a Must, especially for laminating or die cutting.

Thanks for your help, SS! You're a prince! :thumb:

Hi all I'm attempting to bleed some air from my yellow lines and need to get into Service Mode to do it (apparently). I've found the links & suggestions for bleeding, but none for Service Mode - just tons of "...you know how to get into Service Mode, don't you?" :-) Could someone shed some...

So far, so good. Yep, overnight printing is heaven! Only two caveats: 1) Take your time lining it up - be really sure you won't get any telescoping as the roll feeds in. 2) Do a thorough clean before setting it loose - contaminants on the underside of the carriage are as bad as blocked jets...

Yes, the Onyx Thrive RIP is great - we've hooked our solvent and 3 inkjets into it as well as the Arizona. As for the varnish - yes, we'll probably go white/white as well. The paper dust from our offset area contaminates the varnish leaving pin holes in the varnish. Until we can 'clean room'...

We've bought a 460GT recently running CMYK White & Varnish. Love the machine - it seems to be very well made, and produces very good quality work at a reasonable speed. We opted for the Roll Media Option as well, as we'd like to phase out our old Mimaki solvent. Service and back up has been...

This also happens to InDesign files as well. Even if exported as a Press Ready pdf. It's not really a properly flattened file (if you can open the file in Illustrator and edit it, it's not really flattened). Best thing to do with your Illustrator file is to save it as an eps and run it through...

In our case it makes a lot of sense to use the old software...all we're doing is controlling a dumb cutter. What we need is a simple version of a proven app that doesn't have a memory footprint the size of The Pacific Ocean. It also puts to good use older hardware and software that isn't used...

The Suite, The Whole Suite, & everything BUT... Members should bear in mind that Adobe HAVEN'T allowed access to the whole CS2 suite. As an owner of CS2 Deluxe, we had to reinstall CS2 after a power failure and OS corruption. We found that our discs were useless, as the Activation Server for...