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Happens to the best of us. You can change the manifold. Just make sure the rubber gasket that is between the manifold and head stays on the head. Sometimes they pop off and you just need to set it back in place. Good luck!

No, you would want to move it off the cap to flush. It's harder on a 1204 because there isn't a maintenance door. It might be easier to take it out to flush. Or you can take the left side cover off and that gives you some room to see what is happening. You want to be able to see the solution...

What I normally do is soak the bottom of the head in cleaning solution. You can do this in the machine by clogging the cap top tubes and filling the cap top with solution. I let it sit for about half an hour and then try flushing again. You want to push softly until you see solution sort of...

Your designer should be running production. Unless you are so busy that the designer is literally designing all day long, having to load some material and push print shouldn't be too much of an ask. Honestly, I have never had a job where I got paid to do one thing and one thing only. Must be nice.

63" is the official spec for the max printing width which would translate to 59" for a 60" roll.

It's almost like all aluminum coming into this country is 10% more expensive for no real reason. Weird.

Good info above. Just to add, a lot of companies will charge an upfront fee and then also take a hefty percentage as a royalty on everything you sell. I think Disney at some point was $30,000 just to talk to them and then they would take something like 45% of sales. Hardly worth it as a small...

What exactly is a "Hittin' Skin"?

This is what Gino is talking about.

Usually when the print/cut alignment doesn't work correctly the first thing you want to do is clean the encoder strip and then run the encoder setup and calibration in service mode and then run environmental match in user mode. This will sync the motor and the encoder which fixes these types of...

The only method I have seen that can print white well is UV printing. Yes solvent printers do offer white but it does not work as well as most people want it to and it clogs the heads faster. UV printers can obtain much better opacity in the whites than any other method. I never recommend...

It sounds like your head might be on the older side and just not firing as accurately as it used to. A lot of people would still run with that issue but it's up to you. You can try cleaning the encoder strip to rule that out but as heads get older they tend to misfire like that. The nozzle check...

You can also try printing with a unidirectional profile. If the misalignment still shows up its most likely a physical alignment issues like head slant. If the issue goes away, it's a bidirectional issue.

The drop position alignment doesn't change after you adjust it. You should see a difference in your prints but not the actual test print. If the alignment in your prints are still off the head could be slanted.

Awesome. I worked for Jim and Debbie at Digital Visuals but I think they moved since. It's been over 10 years. I used to work in the Middletown mall too and it was dead back then too!

No problem. How's Middletown? I lived there for a couple years and actually started in the sign industry there!

When ink flows but it doesn't print it's almost always the fuses on the main board. I have had many customers test the fuse and say it was fine when it wasn't. Won't hurt to change them out. If the fuses on the main board are fine, the heads might be damaged. There really isn't anything else...

In most cases you cannot. On very old boards you used to be able to change at will but on most boards there are protections to keep you from flashing the memory. I have a 1304 main board sitting hear for years because I can only sell it into a 1304. Very frustrating.

I opened the PDF and it's actually in RGB mode already so something else has to be going on. I think maybe what's happening is the gradients are being rasterized and that is changing the color. When I open it in Illustrator all of the gradients are raster images layered on top of a vector...

Agreed but if you have to use a canned profile the 3M ones tend to have the brightest colors and high saturation in my experience.