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wacom intuos 4 extra large... what could be better than giganitic! actually, something that will fit on your desk.

cannibalizing is the only way to go. i picked up a 7'x24' air up/down laser table for $2900. missing motors but the guts are there. i just found this brand new unit on craigslist. all you'd have to do is stretch the y out. http://redding.craigslist.org/tls/2767256072.html and...

it all comes down to doing the homework. the custom printer that i am ordering, i asked ahead of time for a manual for the most common comparable printer. i was astonished at how intuitive and well laid out this manual was. full of color photos and details....very well written english...

yeah the laser needs to be very smooth. check out this open source laser cutter sight. http://labs.nortd.com/lasersaur/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2011/12/12/new-open-source-laser-cutter-hits-market/

i think the accuracy depends on what you are making. i have the worst, oldest, ugliest, slowest shopbot ever (made of 2x10's, was the first dual head PR made) it's probably 25 years or older. but i make top quality signs with it. also there have been countless motor, control, linear slide...

kind losin' kinda catching on(?) i'm still not printing and the files are stacking up. to confirm (whoever can get back with me is a saint in my book). after clearing the value i print the test. 1. the first print is proved to be 500mm on the nose going in the y direction. 2. the x...

i spent the last month digging around for a company in china to build me a custom printer. in the end you will get a sense of things... there will be about three companies in all of china that take their s$*t seriously. very seriously. the rest are a bit rough shot companies getting their...

thanks sightline! i think i can figure this out. and you're right about the thick road thing. i keep trying to imagine what is the geometry of thickness to distance and it never makes sense that the top of the metal would suddenly be further than the bottom. ...good illustration.

i really like the graphic solutions option. many times they will get you on the phone with splash of color in dallas (somehow their tech services is all tied together?). i do think for just flushing the printer there is more than enough of a knowledge base on signs101 to get through that issue.

i think erasing a an entry before doing the test is a good way to start. i'd love to just do the test wrong once. then i could extrapolate what i did wrong rather than nothing happening. BIG QUESTION: i'm doing the test on paper. but then loading .030, and .040 aluminum. that means i...

i did the 500mm test a few weeks ago because i was getting wild swings/different distances printed from my jv3. i messed around with this test but could not get it to actually do anything. the odd sizes are gone now. my printer just prints the same wrong distance over and over. can someone...

if you don't have a new cap top just switch it with a good one on the capping station for a test. with all noise making things turned off in the room (ac, computer fans, etc) you will be able to hear the air/bubbles if the cap top isn't getting a good seal. and the pull at the syringe will be...

if you are curious if your one magenta has a bad damper set up just cross the magenta dampers and see if it corrects. otherwise you still have some vapor lock inside that channel.

with this printer's set up, don't we have four different dx5 capping stations all pulling on 16 distributed ink channels? the cap top on a dx5 can't do an isolated failure of a single color like a dx4. the supply side is fine, but the vacuum side can't create this effect. very odd. i say...

"definitely an ink starvation issue" doesn't say much. that means he's flipped the coin and it's more likely ink than data. if you do a damper swap (crossing left cyan with the left magenta damper/ink lines) and the cyan issues migrates to the left magenta channel, nothing below the head is...

if it is universal across all heads on one side, then i'd look at some mechanical solution that is located beyond the ink lines (that is if you've done a damper swap and proved that the issue can be isolated to that channel and not the damper/line). are all the heads original to the printer? fi...

it's probably the printhead going out. but i'd do a data swap and a ribbon swap (also inspecting like mikepro suggested) and observe if the issue moves around before ordering a head.

don't worry about the color contamination. that will work it's way out. it sounds like you had a bit of vapor lock inside the head. a lot of jv3 owners have run the pump lines to the outside of the printer and then back to separate holes on the drain bottle or some other mod similar. this...

if you put a working pump line in magenta and got the same result, don't worry about the pump side. have you proved to yourself that you can pull magenta from the drain line with this new capping station? manually pulling is stronger than pump. it can overcome viscosity and clogs that the...

dice is right. i generally spend four or five hours a week only reading studying designing new equipment/technologies/expansion etc. sorry if i ruffled a few feathers. my lifestyle would not suit 99% if america. but it isn't dissimilar to some of the harder working countries out there...