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MTBF [Mean Time Between Failure] is calculated as power-on time, power-off time is free. A power-on state is considered to be in-use time. Just because it's not printing does not mean that it's not doing anything at all. If electronics is powered on then by definition, they're working...

"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire How much foresight and at what cost? Way back, probably before you were born, I was a corporate warrior dealing, albeit tangentially, with such things as disaster recovery plans. It turned out that the plans generally were costlier than the...

Ah...Yet Another trendy but basically fraudulent notion. Why do you plan for failure? That tends to set you up planning for failure and having to deal with success. Why not plan for success and deal with failure? A much happier state of affairs. A disaster is not something for which...

Just trying to point out that those who give undue reverence to their tools are invariably inept and rather foolish. Let's see...In the 10 years this machine has been chugging away I have spent exactly $0 on repairs and have experienced 0 seconds of down time. In that time I have been through...

Twaddle. I routinely RIP files in the GB+ range, my software is Flexi 8.62, Corel X3, etc., as up to date as serves my needs. Some RIPs take longer than others but they all get done in an acceptable amount of time. RIPing is but a minor part of the 'job' to which you refer. If the RIP were...

Knowing full well the cries of 'Philistene', "Heretic', 'Unclean', etc that this will evoke from the hardware weenies adrift in these waters, the answer to your question is most any PC with a GB or so of RAM will do just fine. The difference in complete start to finish speed for any job...

Print, laminate, cut. End of discussion. If you want to swim in these waters you might want to grow a thicker skin and develop a sense of humor. Regardless of how any particular forum in this sandbox might be described, people post whatever it pleases them to post whenever it pleases them to...

Not meant to absorb ink? It's plain old vanilla vinyl and it's solvent ink. The solvent acts on the vinyl, no particular absorption qualities needed. Why do you think you have to heat the stuff up in the first place? As others previously noted, the only real drawback with vinyls not intended...

There are dry erase markers and there are permanent markers. Dry erase markers just wipe off dry erase compatible surfaces. Permanent markers are exactly that, permanent on most any surface including dry erase. Moreover a dry erase marker is pretty much a permanent marker on any surface that...

In this shop anything that is applied to something with wheels gets our standard 5/50 warranty. 5 minutes or 50 MPH, whichever occurs first.

Nonsense. The registration marks are heated and cooled right along with the rest of the print. If a contour cut is off it's most likely something other than printer size compensation and/or the media changing shape. Understand just how the registration marks work and you'll understand...

It's theoretically possible but not as simple as you might think. Generally in order to contour cut a print the same software that does the print has to do the cutting. Generally. Especially if you're using automatic registration ala Flexi print and cut. That's because all of the parameters...

Try setting it at 100"x24". You probably have the X and Y axes confused. Normally the media feed direction is the X direction and the left/right carriage travel direction is the Y direction. Even at that you can't specify 24" wide on a roll of 24" media. The plotter requires both left and...

What possible benefit would accrue to me by being a member of some collective?

If you try steam you'll raise the soft grain. If you pressure wash you'll erode the soft grain. If you snad it you'll erode the areas where there is no adhesive. None of these is what you want to happen. Other than trying various chemical solutions, like orange peel, acetone, turpentine, etc...

This is the surest way to control your printer. While this might make some printer snobs and color purists blanch or even recoil in horror, trying to do it with endless profiles and diddling with this and that is silly. Just find an all around profile that works and set your all of the...

A #2 grommet is a #2 grommet regardless of who made it. It's an objective standard. That all of the bigger name makers of grommet presses happen to sell their own brand of grommets does not mean that those grommets are proprietary and unique to that machine. Although they'd very much like you...

Make that a lot of space. It's much handier to leave the back blank. Moreover I've always found two-sided cards rather ambiguous as to which might be the primary side. A blank back is far more useful for documenting on the spot quotes, other's contact information, and general note taking than...

What Jill said plus the panel outweighs the contents such that at first glance all you see is the panel. This is not helped by the incoherent mix of outlining on the content and the useless little red triangles that only serve to move your eye away from the content. All in all it looks far...

As a favorite philosophy professor from days long past was wont to say when someone was desperately reaching for something in a frenzy of tortured reasoning: Don't be an ass.