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We have the nix mini for when we are on the road and Spectro 2 in the shop. If you scan the same sample, the values they give are very similar but the Spectro 2 is more precise on different surface finishes. Our profile engineer was impressed how close it was to his professional setup. We use...

When perf cutting or thru cutting, the blade depth is crucial. If you don’t have enough blade extension then it won’t cut all the way through no matter how much pressure you use. Likewise if you have too much blade extension then you will quickly damage cut strips and blades. Tuning perf cut...

Solvent if you want wide gamut. Latex if you want fast drying. Latex white is also decent. What’s the benefit of UV if you are going to laminate it anyway?

Many thanks for showing us your setup. Interesting that you are using UV for all your decals. Would you be willing to share which brand/type of laminates you use? Thanks!

When commercial printers apply foil to paper they normally print a heat activated resin. The prints then pass through a foiling machine that rolls the foil onto the print with heat and pressure and the foil sticks only to the resin. Never heard of this done with a wide format UV printer but I’m...

Ha ha, not sure about a hazmat suit but you'll definitely need gloves. You don't want UV inks on your skin :) I'm not trying to scare you away from UV, it produces some cool effects, but I have worked around eco/solvent printers for almost 20 years (I even had a Versacamm in my bedroom when I...

UV inks themselves smell, not just the smell emitted during printing. As a test you should order a UV ink cartridge, open it, and leave it in your apartment for a day. They just emit a strong chemical smell, all the time. We store ours in a sealed cupboard. Dealers will tell you anything to...

Wait, you’re going to run a UV printer from your apartment? Do you think that’s a good idea? Apart from the health issues of being around these printers, UV inks smell really badly and I can’t imagine how you are going to deal with that for yourself or your neighbors. When our Roland was...

Piece of cake to do back slits on a flatbed. It’s possible on a roll cutter but glossy decals get scratched as the vinyl travels through the cutter face down. You can rotate the decals so the back slits are on the x axis to minimize travel. You could apply some kind of felt to the cutter to...

Does it read the first registration mark? Do you get an error message? The artwork you send to the Roland should be the original artwork size without registration marks. Then you enable crop marks in versaworks and send the cut data to the cutter. You will need 2 files. Let’s assume your...

This should work. Does it read the first registration mark? If you have crop marks enabled in versaworks then it should look for the first registration mark when you send the job.

If you run it as a dumb printer, it doesn’t care what cartridge is installed, as long as there is a cartridge there that has ink in it. You lose ink level monitoring in the rip and on the printer however.

Never heard this before about orange and red. We haven’t had a complaint about fading in the 7 years we have been running orange ink and we print a lot of 021C.

Onyx will do it. You’ll have to run it as a ‘dumb’ printer and do all the profiling in onyx, but it’s possible. You’ll also have to rig up a way of running different inks. Either a bulk system or a way of using another brand of cartridges. Also for white you’ll need ink circulation, so it’s...

I don’t think he has printed on the material yet. He has some laminated material which shows silvering that he intends to print onto with his uv printer.