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Recent content by badgeman

  1. Ink Supply To Heads

    Read the manual. It will give you the technical way it works. IMHO how it simply works is that there are dampers on top of the heads which provide the vacumn to bring the inks from the cartridges. These also have filters in them for impurities. All elelctronic so watch out for power failures and...
  2. Howzit from South Africa

    Hi Leigh Simon from up in JHB. The info and help you will get off this site is tremendous and there is always a laugh around. Read some archives to find the reverend story. Good laugh. Simon
  3. Exporting EPS to Versaworks

    Hi Our technician recommended not using eps with versawroks but rather tiff files. Don't know if that would apply in your case. We have had no problems doing it this way. Eps gave us problems
  4. Who Can Get For Me Corel Draw Software

    I couldn't agree more Fred... I agree with you. Sometimes we have to pay exhorbitant(sp) amounts for products when we can buy them and ship them from the US for a fraction of the cost they would cost locally.
  5. Greetings from South Africa

    Hi there Crooz. I'm in JHB. doing mainly sublimation. This is the best site. If I am not here at least daily I get the shakes. Welcome. Talk soon.
  6. Newbie from northwest england

    Hi there and welcome from Sunny South Africa. Not to worry about the learning curve. I used to be an accountant in the corporate world. Got the hell in with that and went into sublimation printing. Learning curve? there is no such thing. It is a straight up vertical line. No corporate stress...
  7. Help Dampers

    Can anyone point me to a reliable supplier for Roland sj 740/745 dampers for dye sub inks. I am sure I am getting ripped off at the moment. Obviously it would have to be someone who can export to South Africa. Thanks
  8. Female shop owners

    My ex wife owns the business. I work here. Yeh Yeh. We work well together, just dont live well together.
  9. hello to all

    Welcome from abit closer to Oz, from sunny (ok dark at the moment as it is 9 at night) South Africa.
  10. Versaworks shuts down

    Just got the new Soljet 745 installed and it uses Versaworks vs colour rip for the 740. While riping in Versaworks the program just aborts, gives send don't send error report. As we run colourrip for the 740 and versaworks for the 745 on the same machine we added RAM, an extra GB. The...
  11. Extreme Makeover - The Entries

    Decisions , Decisions.... I am glad I am not Jim and have to decide which one he wants. Awesome designs. Well done all. :U Rock:
  12. Roland sj740 - Help

    Hey Bobby... Checked the pins. blew whatever was in the line out. Still the same thing. Moved the ribbon cable from Yellow to magenta. Managed to blow a fuse. Fixed the fuse. Problem solved. Who the hell checks the ribbon cables. Wiped the ribbon cables clean to all heads. Reset machine from...
  13. New to the board...Glad to to be here!

    Welsome. :Welcome:
  14. Roland sj740 - Help

    Thanks Bobby. We replaced the dampers so I know it is not the O rings. The needle into the cartridge could be the problem as I did not see him look at that. Maybe it has some dirt in it where it punctures the cartridge seal thus limiting the ink flow. It is only on one side of the head we are...
  15. Roland sj740 - Help

    Bobby... Thats exactly what the head tech said. Air in the line. Tech has been in at 7am this morning. Stripped machine. Tightened all line connections, Put in a new head, replaced dampers, put in new capping station. Adjusted vertical allignment, bias and bi-directional print. Tested. OK...
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