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the cool thing is that i'm building a tiny "piggy back" cart' that rides with the head carriage. so when i want to go back to white or silver, i can just pour out about 20ml then switch back to black (the black head will have a secondary damper that runs solvent varnish) in minutes. the...

ha! i remember when i first installed the printer with the manual by my side. i set the fill up wrong somehow and had to do it wasting time and cleaning carts... all i remember is the instructions in the manual not being that clear. don't speak mimakinese.

i'm switching my jv3 160sp to 2xCMYK from CMYKlmlcSS and the printer is pretty taken apart right now (doing some overhauling). in that there are no carts in the pritner and no ink in the lines, but did not do a custody wash, ...will the firmware ask me to "clean" out the CMYKlmlcSS and then go...

i've seen flourescent water based in the past. think it was on some chinese website.

this is the 4x8 petg (.060). a guy at mountain graphics has some throw away rolls of semi gloss paper that i'm gonna swipe next time i'm in houston. hope all is well with my printer as i'm putting it back together.

if you haven't changed your heads than no difference. you machine is most likely already lined up. even taking out a head and putting it back into that exact spot for me has retained the same alignment. glad to hear that your printer is fine.

as far as coming up with stuff... most of the credit goes to being manic... if done right, the fine art market can make you a lot of money. i've been hiding from it for abou the last five years trying to re-enter with something that can't easily be reverse engineered/copied. in the art world...

thanks, but it's not that impressive. my life is insane...all the innovation doesn't convert to higher margins... just maybe more fun. i've been printing on flat material for about ten years. fj50, encad cadjet, encad 505, mimaki 160sp. check out this pic of an encad with a 16'...

i have two giant "air hockey" tables for infeed and out.... metal hovers into the machine. you have to modify the pinch roller springs and a few other things to print on the heavier material.

... that's why i'm asking such a odd question. i don't have roll media laying around. i print on aluminum and veneer and petg. no paper, film, etc.

it was $24 from harbour freight (take out the basket, but the stainless steel base was great for solvent). i put pump tube on the manifold and used a spring clip to hang the head just the right height in the fluid. the head will attempt to rotate a bit while hanging, i just kept rotating the...

... does it need to be a 40" or 60" wide, or??? and i guess a sample roll? how much material in length is needed?

i just saved (think i've saved...haven't put the heads back in the printer) two dx4's that have been soaking out of the printer for days. put (hung them) in an ultrasonic cleaner and in just five minutes cleared up. and get this..., one of the heads was purchased from a tech as an electronic...

@smdgrfx or whomever knows this answer presently my 160sp is taken apart (overhauling/mods etc). in that approximate two hours of callibrating, how much media does the printer use? and how wide are the patterns. ...need to pick up a roll of something to do the alignment (which i'm...

then mark that cable and keep moving it. if the issue keeps following that cable then it's the cable.

first just inspect the cables and or swap the cyan with one that is working to see if the issue stays at the head or follows the cable. if it stays at the head, it can be a bad slider board port or ink inside the head's ribbon cable input. attached is a rendering of a data swap that will be...

i'd lose the color scheme. just use two colors plus gold or silver. bit more retro, colors too. also, thin it out to a bit more of a classic art nouveau/feminine line (not too european but avoid non-ritzy design queues)...the design is much too bulky. and definitely don't use black as your...

@isign trust me the molten urethane worked pretty well. but the plasma arch smelled worse than the triangle ink. great adhesion if you can put up with your shop smelling of burnt bugs.

the air hockey tables were a lot more difficult to build than i figured they'd be. all said, i was up to $1600 in supplies and paying some help to assemble. there are four 5x4 tables. use two most of the time going vertical with lightweight featherboards on the left side. i have the guides...

i just raised my heads to 4mm. the maximum printable height is at 2.38mm because of the pinch rollers. i've been printing in infeed/outfeed for years with two giant custom air hockey print tables. doesn't work perfect but much better than wheels...