Recent content by ElJay

Recently purchased a Roland VS-640 used and I'm discovering that take up systems for these printers are rarer than hen's teeth. Not sure why a take up isn't just integrated into the printer's design. Do they think you'll never, ever print anything longer than 4 feet? I have the rails (Roland...

I can pull ink through the dampers, but they never fill up more than half way. All the other dampers are completely full..They ALL should only fill about half way, correct? Once again, print head, maintainence station and dampers are all new.

New print head New maintenance station New set of dampers After several strong cleanings, little charges, and using a syringe to pull air out of the lines, the dampers in the black ink channels won't fill all the way and I can't get a clean nozzle check. All other colors are fine. Anyone?

Oce Arizona 360 TX Onyx ProductionHouse 10 Any time I try to run a job on black or clear material where there is heavy coverage of white ink (spot layer or flood fill) the white will band and drop out almost completely about halfway through. I've had a tech out here three times to attempt to...

Well lo and behold....Sure enough. I'll be off to bang my head against the wall now.....

Judging by this code and the fact that the front of the printer is cold to the touch, I'm guessing that the after heater has gone bad. I looked in my service manual and replacing the heater seems like a fairly time consuming task involving extensive disassembly using some expensive-looking...

There is VERY LITTLE support for these machines and most techs won't touch them. You're pretty much on your own. We just retired ours last year. I don't miss it.

I think it's perfect just the way it is.

Outside of not cleaning the surface well enough or not allowing the paint adequate dry time, what could we be doing wrong? I agree, BTW. great work.

We've experimented with wallpapers but because we almost always work in dirty, cramped construction environments, laying out sheets flat and adding paste to them is unrealistic. Also, the areas we work with most often are quite large (20 feet wide by 15 feet tall and larger) so a self-adhesive...

My shop does a lot of large indoor wall graphics. Looking for a decent print media that I don't have to laminate and won't fall off the wall in a week/month/year. The vinyl we've used in the past (3M, Oracal) doesn't want to stick to painted drywall, or much of anything else apparently...Anyone?

Thanks for all the help and advice. Don't get me wrong, the Oce is a well-designed, reliable piece of machinery. We've been pushing it hard from day one and heavy usage will tend to magnify the inherent issues in any printer. Got some homework to do. Thanks again everyone.

Outgas probably isn't the right word. Cure is probably a better one. The vacuum is holding down the media just fine, but if I crank the lamps up too high it will cook things like styrene, PVC and MDF.

I suppose I was a bit cryptic in my OP... It's an Oce Arizona 360TX (or Fuji Acuity..same printer). I've been running it hard for about two years and these are just a few of the general issues I've encountered. The scuff/scratch issue is almost exclusively with styrene. I clean it...

Any minor flaw in the media (scuffs, scratches, streaks, etc.) will appear in the finished print, even with heavy coverage. This is especially true with styrene. The sheet will look spotless before printing, but scuffs and scratches will magically appear. Even with more than adequate curing...