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no water and eco are exactly the same. i just put an epson 10000 head in my jv3. get this it had three stickers on it. top sticker epson rank, next sticker roland rank, next sticker below that mimaki rank. also the head had this nice little no drip gasket protecting the inside of the wiring...

but don't hang them in your show room and wait for a bite. do a few, do some virtual proposal/installs with them in spaces. then go to local successful design firms (the kind that do restaurants) to offer your services. i know this market fairly well. i do lots of "frank lloyd wright" or...

mutoh went (at first, not sure of the current design) with a heater blower right to the substrate. this arrangement means that the ink is shocked right after lay down with an ambient temp that is much higher than the substrate would tolerate over time. which i figure would shut down dot gain...

the reason i ask is i print on wood veneer, petg (.030), and aluminum (.030-.060). all these materials will not tolerate heating while being constrained with pinch rollers. so i'm able to get away with no heat, solvent ink, and a solvent receptive coating. that is changing because i'm...

i have one question about the nature of the cure. would you say that adhesion issues from low heat are from lack of crosslinking which could be cured by post heating? ie. there is a underheated sample with low adhesion. heat that material up minutes later and the adhesion is improved...

i wonder if they ebay all the gutted parts?

gerber conversions? that might sound like a great deal for a guy that has a big cnc/vacuum/x axis table that isn't worth squat. all they have to do is design a gantry that is plug and play. that is a little high though. seems like it would be $30k max.

i thought it was very interesting how at the sgia, the CET booth was all about "popping the hood" on their machines. they were like "check out this sweet ink supply system" "look at that head carriage" etc. at the oce' or hp booth they were like "uh, the piece of board goes on this top...

i'm so fried from this last order i can't think straight. so... sorry if this is a stupid question. is the printer working now? are you getting another head?

yup. i was on the shopbot forum a few months ago and there was a discussion about how the chinese cnc's might put shopbot out of business. i'm not a cnc enthusiast. i have a shopbot and hate cnc work. but maybe the cncs from china are pretty sweet too. they've been doing cnc routers much...

glycol ethers are basically ink without the solvent, resin, and pigment. it's the carrier for the ink. so handle it like ink. and do testing. my testing is for triangle. i can't tell you how each ink will react. look up the msds for the cleaning solution for your particular ink. do side...

wit-color makes a 4x8 (2.5m gantry) dx5 solvent flatbed using the ultra 9000 for $22k. i wish it was just a bit more gigantic. only 15% of what i do is under 4x8. and my diy flatbed is sure to come in at around $12k and probably be POS. ...xtr seems to be all about the low budget...

well, that products "secret recipe" would be public knowledge. and to chemists there is no secret. and if you don't feel comfortable having butyl carbitol in your printer, i suggest you take the ink out, and stop using the OEM cleaning solution. if you saw the stuff, and how it melts ink so...

we have two guinea pigs on board (thank you brave ones!) that are purchasing the wit-color ultra 9000. one of them being the 3.6 (a shop out in africa!) chinese printer regularly go beyond 72". in fact 72" is their standard, not 60" and there are no 54" models to be found. the standard sizes...

grrrrr.... take lacquer thinner. it's got a filler. usually alcohol. the expensive lacquer thinners use acetone. which works better. the expensive one. take OEM cleaning solution. it too has a thinner. that's butyl cellosolve. but in this case the expensive one is inferior. the most...

or, say he gave you $1000. you bought a $300 roll of whatever. that's it other then discussing a project for 15 minutes. keep the roll and ask him what he does for a living. then offer $1300 in free labor. boom everyone's even.

i noticed something odd yesterday. i was looking at an msds for encad go+. there are almost no exotic ingredients. black was diethylene glycol and carbon black (and water). what is odd is that diethylene glycol (aka butyl carbitol) has a solvent effect. so evidently the encad carts are...

is it me or is the motivation still balancing on "what's in it for me"? you can't replace a piece of your soul with a dollar. things aren't connected so directly in life. i work with the most honest business man i've ever met. he'd rather lose money than be considered opportunistic in such a...

the msds says that the carbitol is bad for the kidneys and blood, etc. but then all of them do. i don't wear gloves unless it's going to be particularly messy. latex is fine enough fort this stuff for short term. i use anything. it can be an old liter bottle but usually i go through so...

in the print business you can almost never go wrong if you are adding equipment. maybe signs101 will add an encad section! not.