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  1. Question Banding, Only When Printing Black...

    Yes these were solvent machines and I have totally rebuilt these printers. Believe it or not ribbon cables if the printer employees them are near the top of the usual suspects list. Also why I encourage a service call. With the HP Latex printers you go to the printer menu and go to the...
  2. Curious how you deal with this type of job

    Print, Laminate, Cut and roll it up overnight. Roll up on a 3" core. This lets the adhesive separate. If I am reading you correctly you chief concern is a .29" block type such as Helvetica , and or similar. These are called Slab Fonts. Yeah we all feel the pain of that but if You print on...
  3. Question Anodized aluminum blanks

    Try Calsak Plastics or Piedmont Plastics. If they have it it will be in a 4x8 sheet. If they do not have it but can get it, then there will be the sheet cost, add Pallet Fee and add freight. Bot Piedmont and Calsak have the big computerized table saws that will cut the sheets to your size...
  4. Question Banding, Only When Printing Black...

    A few things I learned from owning Seiko CP 64's and HP 9000's. Also on my second HP Latex. Bandededed ing is most often Print Head clogged nozzles. I like the 1/4" foam tip sponges with a wiper fluid or a storage fluid and scrubb the wee wee out of it and then follow up with a strong cleaning...
  5. best printer for yard signs

    HP Latex 315 is a low cost printer and is cheap and easy to maintain. These will endure long idle times and just do a cleaning cycle once a day to keep the print heads wet.
  6. Aluminum Composite Color Charts

    Global Signabond lite is my fav two sides same color. https://www.globalsignproducts.com/signabond_lite.html Orders under $1000 have a $100 pallet fee. I order from Calsak . Bruce in Duluth, Ga knows the drill. Spot Vinyl Color equivalents Red Saphire Blue Dark Green Sunflower Yellow (they...
  7. Best non genuine latex ink

    Yall get with Fransisco at Cuantek-USA in Texas 210-388-2993 Absolute great guy, and damm dependable. I used him for my HP 9000 Solvent Inks and he has been making Latex cartridges for about 5 years now. The Russians up in Canada makes killer inks too. Degassed and his solvent inks out...
  8. CE6000 and FC8600 Maintaince

    Clean the Pinch rollers, then clean the carriage rollers and clean the track. When you clean the track the rollers track Smoothly and Quietly. If you gotta lube something then I guess white or a dielectric would do. You better be dam careful before you go removing covers. Just stay out. FC...
  9. Maintain grouping in Flexi when opening illustrator files ?

    I think your problem is originating in Illustrator. Illustrator is automatically grouping everything together, and that is how it is being imported into Flexi (I use AI Mac version) (FS 19 PC) Just ungroup everything in Illustrator and then regroup only the items that you want grouped...
  10. Two Fonts That Need Identifying

    Numbers Take a look at Rockwell (font). Might make a nice substitute
  11. Discussion Anyone experience issues with ecosolvent, UV, vinyl smell?

    Dont skrew around with this! You need a Front fume shield and an air purification unit that attaches to the hood. The air purification is a large vacuum that contains at minimum coarse ground charcoal. and this will remove the chemical fumes and returns a cleaner air to the room. Even better...
  12. Graphtec FC8000 not cutting at set origin point

    I have never had any luck with cutting master or any version of it. Get a version of flexi letter off ebay. then simply export the AI file as an eps 3, and that will import cleanly into Flexi. You will gain a whole new level of control over your art and layouts. This will bring you out of the...
  13. Bomb Sight Alignment Issue with FC8600

    With the graphtec Type 1 or type 2 registration marks printed. When you go to contour cut you will be prompted to move the blade to the first mark, move the blade holder (red tip) to the inside corner of the first mark then hit the ok command on your screen. The ARMs will take over and read all...
  14. Bomb Sight Alignment Issue with FC8600

    Why are you using the Bomb Sight instead of the Type 1 and type 2? Also my understanding from Graphtec is the Bomb Sight Tool was discontinued well before the 8000 was introduced.
  15. Laminators

    I scrapped my Seal, because I could not get service. GBC bought Seal and service in my area is through ACCO. Begged them for a month and told them I did not care the cost. I need to get jobs out. They did not give one dam about it. With no storage space for a dead laminator, recycled metal...
  16. Adjusting printer passes

    Oh How I feel the pain of this topic. The last decent color output was the L26500 running under Flexi 10. I got great color with strong density. The Bicht slap to all of us was Flexi 12 and the 300 series printers aka "The Optomizer" I keep swatch books and make notes on the settings and...
  17. Question New HP L365 having issues printing to 3M gloss materials

    I see the same thing. Its the liner. Also important upload the media profile into the printer. My other problem with the 180 is the loading tends to curl back the vinyl and the adhesive, hangs up. The liner is too thin. 3m trying to save pennies.
  18. Question New HP L365 having issues printing to 3M gloss materials

    I am running rolls of IJ 180 on the HP L560. And seeing the same patterns, and is obvious it is in the liner. The liner is very thin now. Too thin.
  19. Maybe real business advice

    In this day and time Poor Communication has no place in any business. My clients can call me day or night, and when the calls come late it is a true Emergency. FEMA decals for trailers loaded with critical supplies due to Katrina. Closed signs because there was a mass shooting. CoVid 19. and...
  20. Flexi Changes to defualt printer settings

    Thank you, I am glad that I was able to help.
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