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Recent content by estunum

  1. Print & Cut Longer than 8' issues

    One of our cutters is a VS-640i. Largest I've done as a print/cut is probably 20'. It's not super easy and I always tell everyone to limit print/cuts to 6'. But when it's needed there's really 2 key factors. 1. Add plenty of bleed. 2. Place as many wheels as possible. 3. Probably the most...
  2. roland xf640 waste ink buildup

    We have 3 Rolands but not sure how the XJ-640 works. There's something underneath the wipers that drains in the ink waste bottle? On ours, the two things that drain into the bottle are the tubes that come from the pumps of the printhead(s), and another from the "mist surge" sponge, that sits...
  3. Need Help Color-Shifting Vinyl

    Which series do you have for 3M? They have two series that color shift, 1080 and 2080. The only other one I can think of is Oracal's 970RA series, but looking at my book here doesn't look like what you have on the photo though. Then again, the fact it shifts means it won't photograph well...
  4. Oce 460 GT Cyan Nozzle Check

    I'll add our resolution for future reference. Printhead was fine. Alignment wasn't perfect, but it wasn't what was causing this. It was our inks. We switched to Nazdar inks a while back and never really had an issue. Quality when down a bit, and perhaps kept degrading but we got used to it. Only...
  5. IJC257 vs IJC256

    We switched to 257 a year into having our 460 GT. We knew the ink was thicker, generally more work to maintain, but the adhesion properties is what we wanted. We print a lot on acrylic, this is before digital acrylic became more available. We had no issues until we changed from Oce inks to...
  6. Oce 460 GT Cyan Nozzle Check

    I wish I could fit a caliper down there because it looks to be where it should be. We will have someone look at it on Monday, but it's definitely not printing right. What is interesting is that Quality seems to be the best looking setting, still not passable, while High Definition is the worst...
  7. Oce 460 GT Cyan Nozzle Check

    I asked a Canon tech and he suggested the same thing about checking the printhead being out of place. That's all he said, without actually making a service call and costing us a fortune. Visually, the printhead looks fine. Visually, it looks to be in place compared to the others. I'll have to...
  8. Oce 460 GT Cyan Nozzle Check

    So this morning our cyan nozzle check started to look really off. Prints with cyan look blurry, almost as if the printhead is too high, but all other colors are fine. I've cleaned it several times, swabbed it, and even ran a couple short flushes. Photos attached. The printhead itself looks fine...
  9. Question Dust management & Lamination

    What kind of dust are we talking? Dust from other machines or just generally a dusty area? As mentioned, the key is to not let the graphics touch the floor. We have take-up rolls that work great on our printers, but you can always rig something up. When we go to laminate, just take a roll of...
  10. ACM Installation on Wall

    Thank you all for the advice, it confirms several things. Lesson learned. Despite my lack of experience, my suggestion from the very beginning was to paint the thing. We are good at making large stencils, we make them all the time for gym floors and inflatables but higher ups didn't want to...
  11. ACM Installation on Wall

    We've had a wall mural gone bad 3 times now and wondering if there's anything else we might be missing. The mural is 10' x 10'. The substrate is 3/16" ACM, with a vinyl print applied on it. The print has an anti graffiti film instead of our normal laminate. ACM was applied to the wall with...
  12. Anyone know what material this is

    I agree, just looking at it I would guess .06
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