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Recent content by Charles@TheSignDude

  1. R1000 & Mirrored vinyl

    Just got our R1000 Last week and still learning. How do you load and print on mirrored chrome & Gold? we load the vinyl like we have with other rolls and the R1 doesn't detect it and when we manually tell it the measurements and print it starts inching it back out like its searching and then it...
  2. UCJV300-130 Error

    Our UCJV300-130 gave us a msg on the screen the other day and now its back and we cant get it to go away or even run the printer. has anyone ever had any experience with this msg on the screen? F/W updating *Transmit start* (see photo)
  3. HP Scitex FB550 UV Lt Cyan ink not curing

    We are trying to print on corrugated plastic using our HP FB550 flatbed and the print has a large area of light cyan. When we print it (high quality, low quality, Head raised, heads lowered) no mater what we have tried so far the ink is tacky to the touch and if try can be rubbed off. Our bulbs...
  4. HP R-1000 dimension question.

    balstestrat, do you have one to confirm this measurement or just going off that manual. I have read the manual as well and it would make sense if the extra extensions are 3' each and the ones in the manual show 2'1" and 3'1". If it really is 216.9" (18') then we would JUST fit it in our space...
  5. HP R-1000 dimension question.

    Hello, I been looking on line and cant seem to get a measurement for the HP R-1000 (64") . The measurement I need is the total length if it has 2 extension tables on each side. see attached photo. If someone out there that has this setup could send me the measurement that would be great. Trying...
  6. Need Help HP Scitex FB500 Shutter calibration

    we recently had to replace a lamp unit on our FB500 and everything is working but we are getting an error message W-UV-10 shutter calibration. On the screen it tells us to run the shutter calibration from the service menu. Yet we cant find it in the service menu for the life of us. Anyone know...
  7. Need Help HP Scitex Fb550 margin issues

    Looks like when one of our other operators was were selecting the size + Boarder-less in onyx it was adding a negative margin. thanks for the inputs.
  8. Need Help HP Scitex Fb550 margin issues

    Why would our FB550 flatbed automatically set margins (seems random) when I send a file to it from Onyx? (see attached photo) I've looked through media settings in onyx and cant find anything that might explain it. I've looked back through some of the stored files in the 550 and the phantom...
  9. Need Help HP Scitex FB500 Black dropout and over spray Help

    Looks like a batch of bad black HP ink, we swapped for a new box and flushed the lines and heads and haven't had any issues yet. Thanks for the input.
  10. Need Help HP Scitex FB500 Black dropout and over spray Help

    Our HP Scitex FB500 is suddenly having troubles with its black printing. It's most notifiable in our labels and registration marks (created by ONYX) but also noticing it in the prints as well. (See attached photos) When we notice it doing this we will have the printer do some air purges and...
  11. Need Help UV color profiling

    Then whats the best remedy to profile UV inks?
  12. Need Help UV color profiling

    Hello, I have been working on building color profiles for our HP Scitex FB500 and FB550 (also a Mimaki UCJV 300-130) using Onyx 19. After building the profile i scan an IDEALAlliance color wedge 12647-7 and compare it to GRACoL2006 using SPOTON software and the results are very poor visual...
  13. Need Help FB 500 yellow ink profile chip not reading

    Recently our hp FB 500 was running low on yellow ink, as we always do we went to swap the ink and profile chip. when we did the yellow registered full and then a few moments later it it registered as empty. we tried a different box of ink and profiler and same results. we also tried pulling a...
  14. Need Help Latex 370 reds fading in and out.

    If that is the case how do i resolve the issue?
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