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i've also read here and there that aftermarket latex inks are in development for piezo/epson printers. possibly with longer post heating dry times? who knows. but i'm sure that if you are in the ink business you are not sitting back and watching all of your solvent chemistry/stock slowly...

with all this discussion about leases, can anyone recommend some leasing companies that are graphics equipment friendly? i'm assuming that some companies might better understand the production/profit capabilities of new graphics equipment. i leased my first printer. had no idea of even how...

get an automotive stethoscope. turn off all noise making things in the room. no ac, no pc fans, etc. pull a vacuum with a syringe at the waste line pump to the offending heads. listen for air leaking. if the cap is sealed and the manfold/dampers are seated and or not cracked and there are...

bending? or banding? bending like the image is waving around would be data. banding would be you are starving the head for ink. this will typically give you a decent test draw then under load for ink the head starts to band.

just because it's cycling means nothing. those pumps will still clog, the caps will get gunked up, the wiper will get gummy and the printer will eventually fail just cycling. get a printed sample please. if you get a decent test draw then buy it. it will make you money. if all the heads...

i'd replace the inner pump tube. dunk the capping station in acetone, new dampers (put them in an ultrasonic cleaner, they may come out perfect, i've seen it happen). before getting ink in the printer, i'd fill carts with cleaning solution (homebrew, recipes on the board) and let the printer...

you can't just clean it. the encoder strip has to be inspected. a single speck of ink will cause an error. get: magnifying glass, flashlight, business card. bend the card so that it can slide behind the encoder use the flashlight and magnifying glass to look very closely at the strip. i...

first the garage, then the hall to the garage, then the least used bedroom. before you now it you'll be eating breakfast on a cutting table. build a long flat board that the garage can seat down on with a hold at the end. put a blower there. there will be enough cracks in the construction to...

here's some close ups. i'm sure the linear motion side of things will not be an issue. the table looks over built and the tolerances are very tight. such as on the gantry there are two linear slides, the whole carriage is locked in with "0" budge. not nearly as sloppy as all the printers...

it's in a temporary shelter (weatherport.com) the floor is just something to walk on for the year while we get our building figured out a the back of the property. the table has risers on each leg so i'll just drop a laser across. i'm not sure the table will even be printing that much before...

the printer i was going to use i'm confident would be very easy to mount to this table. for instance, the x callibration is done with an independent toshiba module (not from the firmware). so that helps quit a bit. the only thing that needs to be hacked is the x axis so piece of cake on that...

that would be great. austin and freeport are about four hours apart. i haven't broken into the table too much so far. ...have a rush order due saturday. but it looks like a very solid build. originally it was for laser etching glass. so the gantry is tight and light weight. perfect for a...

the 1024 at 72mm only beats the xaar 1001 by 2mm. and it looks like the xaar is much more user friendly with the label market which is almost always custom. there's a much better bet that i could find a tech in the houston area for a xaar custom system.

i'm curious if each OEM makes these developer kits. the table i'm converting to a printer already seems to have the guts for printing more than i originally assumed now that i've been able to give it a walk through. it was a massive laser etching table. has two huge servos, the y-axis looks...

man does that make want to just build it myself (with some local tech help). ....must resist the temp...ta...tion.... ...looks very fun..... with the ink delivery systems, does this act as a "non" subtank set up? (haven't read up yet).

i'm having a custom printer put together. currently it is bid out for konica-minolta k512 35pl heads. but i've noticed with other printer builders, they list all available head manufacturers as an option. i need (somewhat in this order): maximum allowable ink viscosity heaviest ink lay-down...

i don't know. i got tired just watching the guy use it. roller tables are the ultimate. mountain graphics does tons of vinyl (when i say tons, i mean literally tons) and they have several huge roll rollers. the people using them look very relaxed and underworked. this is an interesting...

maybe in a year or so. right now, it's a pile of parts and hillbilly chaos.

i'm already doing it. this new table for the printer is so big (7'x 24'), that i'm fitting a printer at one end and a pre-masker at the other end. i've got and old 65" walco laminator that i'm going to tear a part. maybe put a 7' roller on. but most likely just extend the shaft and i can...

i say get a chinese laminator. tear it apart. build a table and a linear rail/bearing and within a weekend you've got something very similar. there are quite a few rails on ebay to pick up for cheap. ...but there's no way a laminator can match this set up. a dead object and a moving tool...