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Boxes can be mislabeled for sure but this is also all good calls from Flyplainsdrifta. There can be kinks in the lines or the filter at the end of the line attached to the cart can be plugged...press the little white “nipple” on the end of the filter and ink should drip out...if it doesn’t you...

Chances are some kind of profile/software settings. But food for thought...I’ve had Scitex ink cartridges filled with the wrong ink. Mine had light magenta in a magenta cartridge. It’s a tough one to figure out because who would think but I’ve had it happen multiple times with scitex and once...

I love the one, “well it costs this much less on the internet”...to which I quickly and politely respond “well then go ahead and buy it from the internet” and wonder to myself why they’ve even found themselves at my shop and didn’t just buy it from the random website in the first place. Usually...

Use the appropriate material/specs for the job...it’s not considered cheaping out if you use a removable calendered aka “cheap” vinyl on the door of a truck for a 45 minute parade...it IS considered knowing your tools/materials and not overkilling a job resulting in extraneous costs for you and...

I have the take up reel on my Summa S Class plotter. And it's been working great for months but now all of the sudden it's having trouble. I used to tape up the job to the take up reel with a leader, get it all squared up and then read the barcode and off it went. It would cut full 150' rolls...

Not a bad suggestion...skilled installer could lay either by themselves, but I’m in NY so with the heat in TX probably good to have a second set of hands, if nothing more than to serve cold beers haha...the 3551ra is thicker and more rigid than a true cast and performs well over rivets if...

Sounds good, best of luck :-)

Hi Glavin, I know the machine inside and out. I currently have an FB550 and ran a FB950 for over 5 years. In that time I’ve personally done the repairs on them including head replacements, data cable replacements, encoder sensor, encoder strips, various filters and lines, head board, Lamp...

Sometimes people will manually input the media thickness and lie to it and tell it that it's higher than it actually is...intuition would say that this would ultimately raise the head height and reduce strikes....but it also raises the height of the input roller and so that roller sits above the...

I think the photo-realistic wraps are bad ass....but my problem with them is that the perspective is only good from one viewing angle...as soon as you are looking at it from any other angle it immediately loses it's charm because it "flattens" i.e. the perspective is no longer accurate. Kind of...

Fair enough. Though I respectfully have a different opinion and fully value and appreciate what you’re laying down. I came to this forum to continue to learn and build on what I already have and you offer a great perspective that whether I like it or not will certainly serve some value to me at...

Absolutely true...they as a vendor need to weigh the loss of your business as a buyer of raw materials vs what they gain by selling direct....most of them realize that they are lazy salesman and not passionate sign makers and their scheme to sell direct falls short of expectation. They've now...

I have customers that literally have the same equipment I do but don't have a good designer and print operator thus they still send the jobs my way. Everybody thinks they can buy up some equipment and make it themselves until they realize that it also comes with a price tag for the labor wages...

Volume output strategy is a great strategy and so is the design intensive custom stuff. The advantage a small company has is the flexibility to achieve both high volume and custom work as needed and make adjustments on the fly. The volume work has lower margins but keeps the wheels turning in...

Well said...nimble, creative, and on the cutting edge of technique and tricks of the trade are the things that the big companies will always struggle with...no matter how cheap their prices are and how much they flood the market, the talent will rise to the top and always have an advantage over...

Just put that same GFP in our shop today, sweet unit! Happy laminating haha!

Thats the ticket! Not only is it good for UV prints I find if you turn the heat on low you can crank the speed up and still maintain good quality. Considering too that I’m in upstate NY where winters are cold and mornings at the shop can be brisk haha! Too much heat is terrible for calendared...

This is where a little professional salesmanship comes in lmao...let them know you want to solve the issue as much as they do and take the opportunity to explain that since the vinyl will never stick and is a lost cause that they should upgrade to a fancy digital billboard or better yet a classy...

They are arc lamps rated for 500 hours each. But I'm getting around 1000 each and only replace them at that point to be proactive, not because they've failed. I've not used LED curing systems but rumor is that they don't cure as well but that's all i know about that subject, that is only what...

Ron Swanson is my damn hero hahahhahahaha! Followed close behind by Ron Burgundy :-)