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Recent content by jawdavis

  1. Pricing for Concrete Wall Mural

    In the last 6-8 months, I've decided to basically quit selling the Walk n Wall for textured wall wraps, and I apologize if anyone sold a job specifically on what I'd said. I've been using the product for many years, but it seems only the ones I've installed in the last 12-18 months have failed...
  2. HP570 Spectrophotometer Door and Color Calibration

    try carefully removing the color sensor cable and reseating it properly. we have had a ton of issues with our color sensors breaking off of 3 diff printers and have had to get creative on reattaching them. the cables are very fragile and bending the small metal contacts on either end can cause...
  3. HP Latex with Bulk ink system

    I'd be curious to know a bit more about your process, as well. Probably not something we'd have the time/skill/patience to rig up, but I like knowing how people solve things creatively. Are the inks pressurized? How do the chips on the cartridges play into this?
  4. HP 560 Latex vinyl waste

    We run 2 360's and a 570, and we change rolls a lot, each day, on each printer. We offer a wide variety of print materials, offer a specific turnaround time, and while we try our best to gang up jobs as much as possible, it's not always feasible to run a complete roll start to finish. In fact...
  5. Best vinyl for temporary museum wall wraps.

    Shoresigns, I agree for the most part about the laminate, but it all depends on traffic/demands in the area. I've had a customer who was too cheap to opt for laminate, then their cleaning crew came in and sprayed it down with a solvent cleaner and were clueless as to why the ink was damaged...
  6. Best vinyl for temporary museum wall wraps.

    Wall graphics are my primary business. We've printed and shipped tens of thousands of wall murals in the last ten years, using a wide variety of materials, and covering a myriad of different types of wall surfaces. No two walls are alike and what may work for one, won't necessarily work for...
  7. HP Post-Warranty Service Plan...

    I have owned 6 different printers of the 3 generations of latex machines. Over that time, the service/care/warranty part of the business has evolved just as much as the printers themselves. Early on we had some techs come out under warranty, but mainly since then I have done the majority of...
  8. HP problem or material... IDK

    I agree with dypinc here that OMAS factors into this, as the printer is trying to intelligently read the back of the media, but it's not always helpful. I was told recently that the OMAS was developed on the non-latex Z series printers which these are based on. It was designed to read the...
  9. My HP is printing RED again.......

    If you have a latex printer with the onboard spectro, and you're NOT creating your own media presets, then you're doing yourself a great disservice. Canned profiles are a good starting point for learning the curing temp, vaccum settings, etc. for a specific media but will only create problems...
  10. Puzzled by recent plasticizer migration

    The wiper roller definitely works, and on a variety of medias. Scrim banners show a marked improvement if there was any sort of migration or contamination of concern. We use it a decent amount on some wallcovering materials that are vinyl and may have some contamination left over from the...
  11. HP problem or material... IDK

    Heat sensitive materials are always susceptible to wacky length issues on the Latex series printers. Compensating for length via the RIP is a solution but it is only effective on the media which was measured, it's not an across-the-board type of thing. What we do is we KNOW that one of our...
  12. Question Is my 360 a lemon, and should I buy another HP?

    I would say no. The errors are never consistent and are difficult to recreate at any given time. However this happens intermittently across all 3 machines (2 360's and 1 570). I might print 25 panels in a row that line up perfectly and the 26th is pretty far off. Again this will not be an...
  13. Question Is my 360 a lemon, and should I buy another HP?

    We were one of the first shops to get the counterweights installed years ago. They took the issue from bad to not-as-bad, but we have never seen the issue completely go away. That being said, we often run Roll-to-Freefall so the take up doesn't even come in to play.
  14. Pricing for Concrete Wall Mural

    The only issues I've seen with the Walk N Wall is where it can eventually peel apart at the seams and at the edges if not heated and rolled properly. You don't need to heat it up and melt it into the joints like a textured wall wrap vinyl, but just enough to get the adhesive to wet out a little...
  15. Question Is my 360 a lemon, and should I buy another HP?

    Probably not saying much that hasn't already been said, but I'm another one in the love/hate category. We bought 2 360's in 2014 and they have each run almost a million sqft to this point, and they've made us good money in the process. I also have miles of unsold material from reprints due to...
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