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If you use the FineCut plug in for Illustrator or Corel, it will recommend a size for you depending on how big the job is. Otherwise most people use the default. If you're getting mark detect errors, try upping the sensor sensitivity. It will be in the regular cutting menu on the printer. Also...

I would not try it. That machine is a water based printer and the solvents will eat it up. Probably not worth the hassle.

It depends on the exact model. Later versions had replaceable fuses. I also agree they are testable in place but I have had many customer say a fuse was good when in reality it wasn't.

Agree but I think you meant to say Y/M.

Have you flushed the pump tubes? They might be clogged which wouldn't allow ink to flow into the head after install. Also, double check the fuse outside of the machine. Sometimes they can give false positives when still installed in a machine. If the fuse and transistors are good, you can...

Post a picture of the nozzle check and output. Basically you should be seeing banding but you might be printing at a high pass count. The higher the pass count, the less apparent banding will be. I bet if you used a 4 pass profile on high speed it would band like crazy. Let's see the nozzle...

Anybody still using the old Falcon, Falcon Jr, or Falcon Outdoor 2 printers? Believe it or not we can still get parts including heads! They are limited to what is available but there is a fairly large amount of stock left here in the US. Feel free to contact us if you are intersted.

Exactly. The head can be twisted so that it's not parallel with the platen and therefor it will print our of whack. The head slant adjustment prints cyan and magenta dots over each other. The pattern is always sort of random but what you're looking for is the magenta and cyan dots to be on the...

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I don't have a ton of experience with that model so take this with a grain of salt but, in my experience when a head has an abnormal temperature like that, it usually means there is a short in the circuit somewhere. I would check the head cables for sure and replace them if they have even a...

That makes me think it's the encoder sensor even more now. Wouldn't hurt to change it as it's a fairly cheap part. If an encoder has major damage or ink splatter on it, it will act as if the head is jammed when the sensor hits that spot. However sometimes the damage or ink splatter can be very...

When you save a PDF as an EPS you are stripping it of all input color profiles so when your RIP gets a hold of it, it just uses a default. I'm willing to bet that's the issue.

Usually when one channel stops firing it's going to be an ink flow issue. Do you see ink in the damper for that channel? If not, the damper or the o-ring between the damper and ink line is failing. If there is ink in it, swap the two magenta damper's positions and run a cleaning. Now do another...

It almost looks like a print feed issue but if the other colors are fine, that rules that out. I would check the head slant adjustment in service mode but if that's ok then it's most likely the head. You can try changing the cap top and dampers and see if that helps but at the end of the day...

If your tech runs into an issue getting the printer to connect, tell them they need to update the firmware to 3.2! Ran into that little issue on my install. might save you a headache!

You might think about changing the encoder sensor and maybe the jam sensor first just to be sure. It could be the HDC board but as you said, it's not cheap! If you are specifically getting jam errors and not over current errors, I would suspect the sensors. If you are getting over current...

I agree with above. Also, make sure to put your RIP's work folder on an SSD and these days for a design and RIP computer in one I would say 16GB should be a bare minimum for RAM. As mentioned above, a good graphics card isn't absolutely necessary but the better one you have, the smoother your...

How's the nozzle check look?

Check and clean your encoder strip. If there is ink splatter or grease in that spot it can cause a "jam."

Translation: That's how the software was setup and he has no idea, or interest in, how to do it any different. There is no RIP software that has such stringent requirements. I agree with myront. Working at 1:1 scale whenever possible is best practice. If you do have to work at scale, always...