Recent content by MrNick86

Hey guys, Sorry for barging into this thread, but I think this is a similar topic. I recently have started at a new shop with a different flatbed other than the POS CET I have worked with for the past 3 years. This Fuji Acuity HD 2504 seems to be a much more refined machine than the CET...

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Onyx wont help us without charging us up the a$$ to even answer a phone call. I know that is not my problem, but I wish I didn't have to go through leaps and bounds to receive a simple answer. Now that I am thinking about it more. Couldn't I technically install Onyx on the printers computer as...

Hence why you basically did away with it and converted it into your own machine, right?

Why is it that ANY time I post anything CET on here I GET ZERO HELP? Yes, that goes for customer service from CET too!

We are implementing the new ONYX Thrive system into our entire print network sometime in the near future. I have concerns with switching the system for the CET. I was told that the print driver for the FK512X was only applicable with Window XP. However, according to the ONYX website, it says...

Hello all, My CET FK512x flatbed running Onyx 10 randomly scatters black hash marks along the y-axis origin. They fall into prints and cause some trouble on the products we produce. It does not do it on every bed, and it is never consistent. The marks can sometimes vary in length and spacing...

I find that placing masking tape on the bed and printing alignment marks on the bed itself works great to get your exact placement. Then, reinforce it by using something like .030 styrene cut into 1"x3" strips and place those with double sided masking tape. That way your target is locked in...

So I begin printing my first bed today and after 6 inches yellow cuts out, but not completely. One of the two heads is firing every other column of nozzles. I saw that "artbot" had addressed this issue months back, except his was only half of the head doing so. I disconnected the data cable to...

Spoke too soon, the problem persists. I got lucky for a few beds.

Feeling stupid & dumb I discovered that the negative pressure magenta line going into the the secondary reservoir was slightly kinked. :Oops: So, that solved the dropout issue. I ended up lengthening all of them to be safe. Fixing the kink also got the manual purge to work again. The pressure...

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After today's experimentation, I discovered a few things to add to my previous post here: Mind you, this is all regarding printing a very rich RED. If I print this full sheet of red at 4 pass, bidirectional, on 720 I can make it all the way through without dropout. Of course it looks like crap...

So, could the negative pressure system have play in why I drop out with high ink demands, in particular magenta? Yesterday, as well as the last time I ran this job, I drop out about every 12 inches of rich red on a full 96 inch sheet. I jacked the negative pressure way up to 4.5 and it made it...

Just my insight, though I have zero experience with printing varnish, I would think a higher head temperature would help lay the ink down thinner and allow for more of a gloss. Am I wrong?