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until you figure out just what is going on with your printer (which probably isn't that bad) you need to be keeping that black/magenta head wet. put some cleaning solution on the bottom of it. do a head soak something. you are currently ruining the head ($800 each). as far as the tubes. a...

i have an air powered shear. what you don't foresee when you buy one is how loud they are. i lay a towel on the foot pedal where the exhaust comes out just absorb the blast. i don't use it often. i'd hate to have to hear that all day long.

me too on the cyan. my media clip has a cloud of cyan on it. which to me means, that even though i can't see the latent cyan overspray in my prints, it must be happening slightly. thus accumulating on the clip. and what is it with cyan. that seems to be a problematic color.

man mikepro you are getting from his issue. i remember when i had this issue for a while. turned out stretching the capping station springs solved it. i guess you've already painted the tops of your caps with ink to make an imprint on the bottom of your heads to look for cap targeting. also...

very good solid eye popping contrasty design. you are taking them to school in that department.

can i. hell no. i've never seen one in person. i do sense a trend though that the hp's post 4500's and pressvue's have very little negative ever said about them. there's a zund 215+ about 90 minutes away that is available (that's a belt drive). but i'm wary of any printer that doesn't have...

i read in an article that and efi rep was tossed out of a trade show telling a client of his that he would sell a rastek based efi to "his worst enemy". they may have gotten the goblins out of this line by now. but why risk it? unless they are giving them away. when you have a handful of...

i can't believe that i am slowly starting to want a belt driven machine instead. what gets me the most is picturing an employee standing around... i'm wanting to tell him to go find something to do, but i know that within eight minutes he'll have something to do. then he won't...for a few...

gear your business toward bigger clients if you can and go to their place of business instead. the better paying the client, the more likely they will expect you to work around their schedule. nothing better than just asking them what part of town they are in and what's their schedule. in...

@briankb here is a huge 5 page thread discussing among others. http://www.signs101.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=84399 a used hp latex on the market vs a used epson based machine will be a great deal of competition. considering a used one in the next few years will probably going for...

unless your shop is really cranking and you will benefit from they speed differences or inkset differences, i'd go used. take the remaining 4-8k (if it's available) and invest it other pieces of equipment, tools, tables, lighting, software,etc. the balance of the money saved will create more...

before you change it out, is the bottom okay? you can flip them upside down and they work just as well.

actually it's a bit more complicated than that. you can litterally sink the head in the solution. that's not the issue. it's that the solution has retarders in it causing it to not evaporate away from small nooks and crannys in the head. the final procedure is to fill a container with 99%...

pick up an automotive stethoscope to hear if the leak is above or below the head. the difference will be obvious. have a partner pull at the waste line and move above and below the head as close as you can to the part. you'll need to be about 1/8" away. one will be a screeching loud hiss the...

first off. you should have popped your cyan damers/lines over to another position on the manifold to see if the issue followed the dampers. plus a new cap can perform worse than an older "conditioned" cap. you may have ink starvation still but further up in your system (pinched/clogged lines...

thanks again. in the past, i thought of the vacuum belt as a bit of a engineering short cut. but it sounds like for keeping the printer humming, the belt is a really great feature. getting a sheet on the feed table, wiped down, lined up, going to the rip and selecting the file is about a 4 to...

@cdiesel, thanks for the thorough explanation. just looking at the machines and imagining workflow is not the same as actually owning and knowing what it's like. when you mentioned loading a fresh sheet while a previous is still printing, ...how is that done? is the tail end of the first...

within this discussion, i'd like some knowledgeable flatbed users to discuss the difference between the belt drive and actual flatbed. there's the old saying that a hybrid does neither well. but which neither does it not do well? does the hybrid, using a roll to roll running across a flat...

new head/new spark plug. about the same amount of hassle.

@10sacer (or anyone else that is familiar with the ink arrangement) does the four time white print in a stacked arrangement? such as each head over prints the one before? also, in the firmware/rip is there a one pass setting in which the heads can be staggered by re-calibration so that they...