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When I print fabric on my flatbed, I end up with little spots where the vacuum holes are that appear to be dust filtered from the air by the fabric. Wiping with a damp rag, and compressed air doesn't seem to remove it. The only way I can think to prevent it would be some sort of tacky board I...

When I got a the machine earlier this year and asked on this forum about primer, several people said just cleaning the surface with alcohol was enough to improve ink adhesion. Likely, this is due to the mold release used in manufacture of cast acrylic sheets. I've done it on small sheets just...

They were the only company that sent me a sample of their product when I asked. They seem really nice. I used it on a small piece as a comparison with/without and it seemed to work great. I just need to figure out a tool/process to put it on a whole 4x8 sheet without streaks. I saw someone on...

My operator tried to apply Natron M74F primer to a sheet of 1/2" clear acrylic, and apparently we're still doing something wrong, as he applied it and noticed streaks after it dried. He messed with it for 30min, going over again with primer, and then finally resorting to isopropyl alcohol to get...

It looks like all of the heads are leaking. Check the pressure levels. Negative pressure holds the ink in, positive pushes it out. Another option is it was without power for an extended period of time and without negative pressure.

Here is one I did. I did a wood frame so it was sturdy and serviceable, and stuck acrylic to the outside. In this case, they wanted the face white, but not showing light through which turned out to be a challenge. 3015 was not as opaque as it appeared once there was real light behind it. Even...

I'm not expecting it to prevent loss of the job, just loss of the equipment itself. We had a near-tornado like storm this year and lost power for a full day. We apparently had a surge prior to it going out. It fried a VFD. It killed one of several 24volt power supplies driving one of our laser...

I have a JFX200/2352EX and we periodically have thunderstorms. On a bad storm earlier this year, we had several pieces of electronics damaged. Luckily, they were repairable for a few hundred dollars in parts. But the cost of parts is only one expense, as the loss of use is much greater. I'm...

Continuing on the white underprint version, when I got to the ICC swatches, it offered me CMYK+spot options. I was going to select a regular one because I can't measure white ink swatches on clear. But at the bottom of the window it said that I had to select an option with a spot color in order...

After successfully setting up a profile on paper, I set out to do a profile for clear acrylic. I was advised to use material as thin as possible and the thinnest acrylic is 0.06" thick, so I'm using some thin 0.02" acetate film from a project. Per the video on setting up spot colors, I wanted...

I've noticed that if I save something in RGB color space, the file is like 200k, whereas simply changing it to CMYK makes it 1.1MB which seems odd. Sure it's more data, but only 33% more. When saving as PDF, I've been going with Illustrator Default, because High quality Print and Press Quality...

Mimaki JFX200-2351EX

We do a lot of stir sticks and definitely want those double sided, so color-white-color works best. Beyond that, our clients don't really understand the need for white to make it opaque, so think if we're printing color on the back, it should be visible on the back too. It's primarily stuff for...

I'm in the process of building out an install of Onyx Go+ 24. It has a lot of features I've not yet uncovered, but it seems quite capable. For example, on jobs larger than the selected material, it automatically tiles it and after printing each tile, it moves the head out of the way and prompts...

The Onyx rep confirmed that this isn't possible. I guess I'll just setup a PC next to the laser printer that can remotely control the other one.