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What speed and pressure settings do you have? What programme are you printing and plotting from? (such a long post and so little time to read it).? SC

Is it possible to use a font with ligatures? SC

In the last month I have had a slight tick as the print head comes over the guide plate. I do most of my printing with the head on the high setting but this afternoon I dropped it and it will catch it and move the guide plate across. It looks as if it is not the head that is touching but the...

One of the main reasons why I don't use Signlab for Printing. The built in RIP is way to complex and expects you to tweek and make your own profiles. Most RIPs have a generic set of profiles that will come close to printing decent matches, sadly you will spend months getting it almost right and...

I have a customer who has a fleet of vehicles that will require a half wrap on his silver vehicles. The colours fade from Blue to the silver of the vehicle half way along. My thoughts were to print this onto clear wrap and laminating it and applying to give the effect that this fades from the...

I have bought machines of sellers before saying that they were working the previous week and they were blocked solid and had obviously been unused for a very long time. If the machine had been flushed it should still have cleaning fluid in the lines etc. Also pulling ink through or pushing it...

Thanks for the info. But after a bit of lubrication and cleaning of the rail it seems to have gone quiet again. Which is good as I am not keen on the replacement job. SC

Can you show me how i get to the rear lower bearings? Are the lower rear bearingassemblies only held in with one screw and the whole assembly comes off? Can I remove and replace these easily? SC

Hi All I have annoying noise which seems to eminate from the carriage of our nearly 12 year old VJ1604 when printing. I have always been vigilant keeping the carriage track and bearings clean. But out of the 8 bearings I can only maintain the facing ones and the top rear bearings and track as...

Ours blew the f2 fuse. When it was replaced this is exactly what it printed. Replace head and head cables should sort that. SC

To print a pure black on any CMYK it has to be set on C:100/M: 1000/ Y: 1000/ K: 100. Set at C:0/M: 0/ Y: 0/ K: 100 will just print the black channel which if you are using cheap inks can be anything but Black when printed. Also you might have cross contamination of the CMYK channels. If you are...

Who said they went by airplane?

Yesterday I had some customers come into my shop for a new sign for their Chinese Takeaway/Restaurant. Strangely they had almost everything they needed except a tray sign to mount it all. It was a little confusing as to exactly what they were after, until one of them returned from their car with...

If the complete maintenance station has been replaced check the dampers and the rubber o rings on the connector. Cap is not adjustable but if it is not sealing properly you will have issues with ink running back. Also the double joining connector from the cap pipes into the pump blocks really...

I You probably have blown the F2 fuse on the mainboard. I have had this issue before, but check the ribbon cables to the head also. Please note the F2 fuse is very small and soldered to the board. Their is loads of threads on this site regarding this. SC

If this has had missing nozzles for any length of time (7 days or more) you will not recover the head. Have you checked that the maintenance station is sitting correctly and has no leaks when it does a clean? Also is it definitley pulling ink, as you will see this in the return lines under the...

Is your maintenance station definitley working properly? The pump lines can get clogged especially at the double connector on the bottom which attaches to the cap top. Personally I would of replaced the complete maintenance station with a new one, especially if this machine has stood idle for a...

You have a leak somewhere. Please show pictures of the black caps? SC

reprint I agree 3M know their is an issue with this material but are either not addressing it, or hope that we will all move to latex machines soon. Personally I do not see an advatage to using this PVC free material as IJ 380 and IJ180 was working perfectly before. Having to print on a coated...

The solution is :- replace the card readers inside the machine. It is a bad design and when sliding in and out the cartridges the pins on the reader get bent. I have replaced these 3 times now and now run bulk inks so you do not remove the cartridges so you can't damage them anymore. SC