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  1. Material wrinkling ... Is it the heat?

    Current problem I am running into is whenever I print vinyl or gloss banner the material wants to wrinkle. I have done everything with heat. Turned it down as low as 31/31 and high as 50 and still can't get it to go away. Is there a way to get this to stop. When I am printing large swatches...
  2. Mutoh cost of ink 12c a sq ft? Come on...

    So today I recieved an email from Signwarehouse about a mutoh 64" printer being on sale for only $15,500. Great deal and I've been looking to upgrade so of course I called and inquired. What really struck me though was they proceeded to tell me there 440 cartridge is $129 and the cost of ink...
  3. VJ1204 Banding/ streaking Vertical

    I had a similar problem with my mimaki jv3 and I actually turned the heat way down and it helped it so you really didnt see it at all but maybe i was just lucky as well who knows.....Just an idea
  4. Ink starvation? Need it fixed

    Yes I actually had Advantages Sign Supply come out and do a maintenane on it and I was busyu and forgot to mention it to the guy . I did call him back and he said it could be the media or the heat but it does it on all the media and I have had the temp up to 50 and down as low as 35
  5. Ink starvation? Need it fixed

    Hey there I have a JV3 130spII and whenever I print a large color of anything med to dark my print will fade some and then go back t onormal printing. Just yesterday I was printing a blue car about 7' long and 2/3 way through the blue just kinda faded and then after another foot or so came...
  6. Bleeding yellow while printing

    that's what i figured but I cannot get it back on track any suggestions? I'm losing it here and am no tech by any means
  7. Bleeding yellow while printing

    Issue while printing on my jv3. Whenever I print starting last night about 5ish everything is getting a 1/16" of an inch yellow to the left of the print. I thought maybe heads were dirty or something but its not the case. When I print test swatches of like 20 colors everything has the same...
  8. Local bar and grill logo

    I personally like the one on the right but I dislike the fill inside the word Topsy's. Just my opinion but I do like the overall layout
  9. What watch do you wear on your wrist

    Invicta Watch similar to this one.
  10. Business Insurance

    Allstate has my insurance....I used to say hell with it but then I came into my shop one day and the ceiling leakers a 5' x 5' pool of water and missed my printer by less then a foot....So yea I'd get it asap but Allstate is great with me though I don't recall ever telling them or them asking...
  11. Frustrating

    I'm in a small town and i still wish I could get that. I've got a guy that I will say does a good job but still hes at about $2000 for that job. That's just ridiculous in my opinion but hell he can do the wraps I'm fine with doing all the banners and signs he passes up because he thinks he is...
  12. What Brand of Tape...

    painters tape is nice and if not use 3m mask tape...you hav to make sure its the one that doesnt leave glue
  13. Flexi 8.1 and printing correct profiles with mimaki

    Hey there guys awhile back I was on here looking to print nice true reds and after alot of trial and error I finally got it down. Well of course with my luck my computer goes down I lose everything. I rebooted loaded all my layouts and so on but no color profiles that were saved. It's not a...
  14. How to half cut on mimaki cutter

    hey matt do you have the link other then what is put on there it won't let me open it. Sorry to be a hassle but I am absolutely driving myself crazy here
  15. How to half cut on mimaki cutter

    Hey guys I know this is probably a dumb question but how do I have cut on a Mimaki cg130-fx? I am running Flexi 8.1 and do all my rip and print from there along with contour cutting but really don't have a clue how to do the half cut. Being I have a customer wanting 1600 3" x 3" circular...
  16. Used summa any good?

    My graphtec recently went down and I'm looking to buy a used cutter that contours cuts but don't want to spend the money on a new one since I will be buying a new mimaki all in one later this year. So my question is summa sign pro d1600 any good? It's an older model but I was told it contour...
  17. Mimaki is doing to many wipes while printing

    I am printing in firewire but I have like 10 million things running on the computer as well including radio and maybe it is slowing it down. I will defintally try to print something now without everything. Thanks for the idea
  18. accepting credit cards II (non swipers)

    I would defintally suggest sams club for the merchant processing because when it comes down to it they are the cheapest rates around though after all factors are in between a 3 year contract and everything else im not a fan of that lenght of contract. I use Square as a few others on here do and...
  19. Mimaki is doing to many wipes while printing

    I don't know why but when I came in today after being off for a couple days and fired up the JV3 the prints are taking too long. So I noticed that the wiper was wiping way to much. But I can't figure out why it is wiping sometimes after 4 passes sometimes after 8 or 10 passes....Any help would...
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