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Recent content by nico

  1. HP Latex smoking (?) need help

    hey dale, really appreciate the detailed answer, helps a lot so thank you. okay so first thing I'm located in south america it's currently winter here, so temperatures during the night are dropping to around 30 ºF, substrates are stored inside the printing room which first thing in the morning...
  2. HP Latex smoking (?) need help

    thanks for the insights guys. Makes me feel a little relieved that other's have experienced the same issue since I have little experienced and had never seen or heard of it. any tips about how to deal with it taking into account that the machine is set at a very very small room and like I said...
  3. HP Latex smoking (?) need help

    Hey guys, I'm having issues with my printer, a HP Latex 110/310 (it's supposed to be a 310 but works with 110 software, nvm that...). TL;DR Machine is smoking heavily (it is supposed to be water vapor), I'm clueless and frustrated since I have no idea how to solve the issue and tech support has...
  4. Question manufacturing date vinyl

    agree with signbrad and ika, thanks for that CIE! also your english is totally fine, us (who speak english as a second language) most of the time tend to be overcritical about pronunciation and grammar (at least that's what happens to me), so don't worry too much about it, good luck with your...
  5. Question manufacturing date vinyl

    GAC05 was right they actually did give me hard time about it so I'm just keeping it because I couldn't stand being in the phone for over 20 mins discussing it with Antalis tech support, if there's any trouble with it then I'll guess I'll just have to go through it all over again so they change...
  6. Question manufacturing date vinyl

    thanks for the input guys, appreciate the help. I agree, I'm going to request them to change it before even opening it or testing it. best, nico
  7. Question manufacturing date vinyl

    Hey guys, this is probably a noob question: I just got a roll of adhesive vinyl from 3M (IJ15-20) and noticed the manufactured date is from 2 years ago, I'm just worried about it because of "shelf life" I've already had problems with other media which were apparently bad because of not being...
  8. [Solved] - Graphtec FC8600 problem

    hey guys, just an update: Apparently the problem is the middle pinch roller, it was not securing the media properly and that's why the cutting was always off in the middle, sounds kind of obvious now, wish I thought about it sooner but well there's always a couple of things to look into when...
  9. substrate problem, dust?

    Hey man I just noticed something that I think could be causing this problem with the graphtec that's making me pull my hair out. The cut files automatically created by Flexi after sending a job to print now say "Nested" right after the file name. Now I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure the cut...
  10. [Solved] - Graphtec FC8600 problem

    Wow hadn't thought about it this way, I mean at some point I did think that media could be getting affected by the heat while printing, but if it is this bad, then that would be a major problem with the media, I'll definitely check the way you are saying against a wall tomorrow morning and let...
  11. [Solved] - Graphtec FC8600 problem

    Hey guys, I'm having a very frustrating issue with a recently installed FC8600 (5 months). Just a little bit over a week ago every job I send to cut is off by like 1/5 of an inch maybe which increases as the plotter goes to the next row of decals. Then when it gets to like the middle of the job...
  12. substrate problem, dust?

    Thanks for the tip man! You are always so much help. I'll try this first thing tomorrow morning, it is starting to get really cold here, friday I had a 10 hour battle with the machine over figuring out what was happening, I did notice that after you ran a couple of meters the coalescence would...
  13. substrate problem, dust?

    Hey guys I'm sorry I couldn't reply before, last days have been a total disaster with the machines and I've been day and night trying to solve it (dealing with some other issues, graphtec is behaving terrible and I'm also having problems for the first time with prints, very high coalescence...
  14. substrate problem, dust?

    Thanks for the suggestion, currently ink saturation is at 100% I'll try increasing it to see how it goes and will get back to post results. Agree on the long term thing, definitely that's why I'm hoping to just find another distributor with hopefully good alternatives. If anyone else knows about...
  15. substrate problem, dust?

    Hey Gino, same thing I tell my tech support when they tell me it is a problem with the room!! Find it weird too. Italian media, Kemica, I know it's rare but I don't a lot of options in my region, it's supposed to be better than entry level/cheap substrates. Hey thanks for the help, to be...
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