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Post a picture if you can.

I assumed the doctor was a bitmap for some reason. It still could be an issue if you have any effects on that vector object like drop shadow or outer glow.

It's a rendering intent conflict. You need to go into your RIP and change the rendering intents for bitmap and vector to be the same. Anytime you have raster data layered with vector and the rendering intents are not the same, it will do this. A quick and dirty way to fix the problem is to...

As far as ink fumes go, you're good to go. The biggest health issue with HPs is the fact that they require so much heat. Heating up vinyl releases phthalates into the air which are known to cause cancer and birth defects.

Not that I know of unfortunately. It might exist but I've never seen it.

Yeah I'd search the computer for that file. Unfortunately, I'm not 100% sure on this but, VersaWorks may not keep a copy of the original file. That info could just be meta data and the only actual data is the RIP data. So there may not be an EPS file to recover.

Yeah those sensors just pop out easily. You should be able to pop it back in and it should work again. If it's broken, you could try gluing it before getting a part.

It's the part that shines a red light on the edge of the material when it's measuring. It's attached to the left side of the carriage.

Check your media edge sensor. It might have gotten knocked out of position so it's reading the edges at the wrong place.

The media was buckling because the pinch roller wasn't within the two triangles. The grit roller slides but the pinch roller doesn't and it causes issues like these.

You're going to want to contact Mimaki directly and see what they have to say. Your machine is special unfortunately. Most CJV150 printers have firmware on them that won't even allow you to choose ES3 ink as an option. Your machine was loaded with special firmware that allows it, most likely...

This ^^^ It's hard to sift through the marketing. When solvent came out, the selling point was outdoor durability and "it can print on anything!" Then latex came out and they said "it can print on more things than solvent!" when in reality, in my experience at least, they both hold up about the...

When customers ask me what they should use I always just tell them to call 3M or Arlon or something. I don't want to risk telling them the wrong thing!

I would get a new edge holder for sure. I would also take a look at the bottom of the head. If you had a bad enough head strike, the metal that surrounds the head surface may have bent out of place and is what is hitting the media. That or ink build up on the head is causing it an just needs to...

It's not the suppliers gouging you, most of the time anyway. If you saw the margins on vinyl, you'd understand why there are only a few large suppliers anymore. Unless you're selling 1000's of rolls, there's no money in it. We used to be like a Grimco with an 8000 sqft warehouse full of vinyl...

Not in digital printing. The only time I regularly used them was when I had a job re-creating art for lithography printing where the registration tolerances were so unpredictable that you needed an overprint.

For a few years I went around installing printers on military bases. Mostly Air national guard and Air Force bases. I installed their printer!

It depends on the model. Older Rolands were pretty bad at keeping track of ink levels. I'm not sure how well the new ones do but it is an entirely different system so I assume it's improved. For example, older Rolands would simply reset to 100% full if you pulled them out and back in again.

You don't have to use perf unless they want to be able to see through from the inside. If you do use perf, you can use liquid laminate but also any optically clear pressure sensitive laminate as well. If it's something they want to last for a good while, use the pressure sensitive laminate...

It uses the same ink level sensor as the Rolands but the ink chip itself is different.