Recent content by Vortex37

We don't use that particular media but we've had issues with our 3M 180 & 480 failing lately due to incorrect installation - seems to be from not heating it down and/or stretching it too much. We don't have an in-house installer, instead we use a few different independent ones and have figured...

Is it getting stuck in the same place every time? Or does it vary? Our rail got scratched up at the service end by a tech who couldn't get the carriage on straight after he replaced a head, so there's a bit of a grindy feeling when moving the carriage past that spot. Otherwise I'm not sure, it...

It's an interesting study in psychology - I bet they would have gotten far fewer views had their signs been professionally printed. It's like viral underground marketing 3.0

More like Orangevale, California. We have our own special kind of redneck ;)

I remembered we had a delamination once on 180 with 8519 and we believe it was due to our laminator which was dying, you had to crank the tension so hard that we think the lam stretched at a different rate than the vinyl and then when it shrunk again it started pulling away.

Does whoever you buy your media from have a 3M rep you can talk to? I go directly to ours whenever I have an issue or question.

Yeah they’re old and hard to get service for. We’re stubborn so we are probably going to keep it until it dies catastrophically!

We never went to aftermarket ink, but we still have that machine so it’s good to know it worked for you. We had so many bad boxes of ink it was ridiculous, and it went on for I think a little over a year. So when the cyan heads started going bad at first I thought it was more bad ink. That was...

It’s in the ink menu under Maintenance. It’s an automated procedure where it empties the heads, the only thing you have to do is drain the waste ink before & after. I was told to do an empty & fill cycle three times after a bad batch of ink and that seemed to get it all out of the lines. I did...

Under Printing->Calibrations->Auto Calibrations

Can you map out the bad jets? We had both cyan heads go down a little while back probably because of bad ink but HP made it hard to prove… anyway if you have too many bad jets and need a new head good luck. Montroy still has a few techs that work on them if you end up needing service.

No, if it were my band and my sign I'd probably actually print it and have like a QR code or something ;)

So much for your fancy shmancy SEO, Google Adwords and Facebook marketing! If you really want to broaden your reach you need a handwritten sign with the name of your YouTube channel on the lawn outside the Taco Bell drive thru