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can't answer all questions but some suggestions: heads must be wet at all times. if you let the printer sit, fill the caps with a water and soap solution. best "soap" bissell hard floor cleaner for a surfactant. it's a non-sudsing soap. warm cleaner works better on clogged head for...

try this (should be using Optix DA... but i digress). peel off the backer. let the sheet sit uncovered for about 20 minutes. then lay it flat. blow it off with air. lay drier sheets about every two feet. don't wipe. the presence of the drier sheet will take the charge of the sheet sitting...

welcome. houston is up to its eyeballs in money (as is the rest of texas). good luck to you!

have you printed much white with this printer? i'd first suggest that your white channels aren't set warm enough. as the print progresses, the heads are cooling a bit and the viscosity is then off.

equipment does not make money. great design, customer service, etc does. expect it to take about two years to get that sign business engine running. like old paint said. get a job, and click away at the larger sign business picture. also the mention to go "get" clients is true. any...

i believe i've heard of an exotic service manual option. i don't know that one. i do know that you can take off the back panel on your printer, unhook your pumps and let the printer squawk away thinking it's pumping. when the firmware believes it's done, you can hook the pump tubes back and...

hmmm... it's a bit tricky to say. i believe every head is tested by epson. epson keeps the best heads for their machines, and ships the rest of them to other OEMs. this would no longer apply to the dx4 but it's true for all their heads when they are the latest version/model. i'd assume that...

non stick metals are tricky. just because you get adhesion, doesn't mean you will keep it. a layer of oxygen (atoms thick) will build under the ink. eventually you have a giant scratch off lottery ticket (year or two later). perhaps a polymetal properly coated for digital will be best...

indoor or outdoor?

also could have a bad stick of ram? might be 2g...

there's a dealer in Los Angeles. forget the name. one option may be contacting Repro Sales in the UK. they sell this model and being in "repair" as well, they should be able to get a tech on the line/skype/splashtop (best) and get things going...

To me, as for DX5 heads, Epson is to blame, they are practicing price gouging whenever possible. I once took apart an Epson 1000 head unit. Under the Epson head rank sticker, I found a Roland head rank sticker, then under that Roland sticker a Mimaki head rank sticker. The "OEM commercial"...

David, I noticed that many of these advertised now have the Ricoh GH 2200. Perhaps this will still be a stumbling block. Are you familiar with this head? Seems to be directed at a competitor to Epson.

you getting the hybrid or a flatbed?

hmmm.... tricky. bang for the buck winner right now is the $16,500 dual dx5 R180 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5bwNy7ok04 also comes in a ricoh GS2200 for not much more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn8vbrf9TZ8

sorry. just a few comments that sounded pretty green to the flatbed workflow. glad to hear that you are doing well.

is everyone getting the sinking feeling (respectfully) that a flatbed printer is not the thing to start with? whether an 85k or a 30k machine, it's not about the machine. it's about the business as an apparatus. think of your business as a "machine". the printer supports the business. a...

i've had both. if you want to do piles of coro' the hybrid is much faster. it will eat it up. pros and cons for both. i prefer the belt.

1440 x 1440! Holy flatbed dpi Batman! a coro' sign should be blasted out at 360 x 360.

CET, AOjet, and Flora are all the same printer. parts are so cheap if you buy the aftermarket chinese version, they are practically free. the $100 filter mentioned costs about $6. ink pumps are about $12 each, etc. the CET i had for a year and a half encountered a cyan issue that could not...