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It has to do with rendering intents for non-bitmap objects. First change your black to 100%k, and 0%CMY. Then If you specify a rendering intent for everything but bitmaps as, in descending order of preference, 'No Color Correction', 'Spot', ' or 'Saturation' this tends to avoid or at least...

What are you using for black? For vector objects you should be using 100%K, no C, no M, no Y. Some folk endorse a 10-20%C,M, and Y in addition to 100%K for black but this should be reserved for bitmap objects, not spot colors. If you use a spot black that's anything more than 100%K you'll...

Did you cancel or otherwise interrupt a print? If so and you didn't do it exactly right, the "can't open port" is the usual result. Since it was working and now, without any apparent change of anything, it's not, I doubt your network software has changed. Since the ethernet plugs directly...

Does the print have a printer interface module. a little widget that plugs into the input port on the printer and into which you plug the ethernet cable from your computer? If so, power the computer off , and unplug the power cords from the printer and this interface off. Remove the ethernet...

If memory serves this has to do with the number of chords used to plot an arc, a circle, and most any other command with a 'tolerance' parameter. If your software preempts this and sends it's own arc chords then this setting is, for the most part, meaningless. Lots of software does most...

It shouldn't matter if the actual mark is larger than the specified mark size, only if it's smaller. Think of it a 'At least this size.' The Flexi update should be incorporated into build 854. The Graphtec patch I downloaded from their web site eons ago. It wasn't touted by Graphtec as a...

Assuming you have up to date firmware in you plotter and your Flexi is at least build 854, just how large is this print? Why the cyan marks? Use black. Is there any part of the print that extends into the path between marks 1 and 2, 1 and 3, and 3 and 4. Even a small piece of crud will screw...

No you don't. Not on a Mutoh unless you have hands like an elf. A very small elf. The groove for the cutoff blade is well nigh inaccessible to normal humans.

That cutoff blade is more trouble than its worth. Just run the print out so it clears the plastic bar on the front of the platen and run a scissors, ala push not snip, across the media up against that plastic bar.

It's called a voice coil. It offers precise control in lowering the blade. The blade is returned via a spring, that's why the blade stays up when there's no power. Make sure the coil windings, what you can see of them, are even and smooth. If they are uneven and/or bunched up here and there...

You sure there's no light pen option in the blade selections in the cutting condition settings? If not, you might try this if you have a spare blade holder. Crank the blade as far out of the blade holder as you can. If you get it out far enough you should be able to eyeball the tip of the...

I assume that you're using manual cross-hair marks rather than actually using the ARMS and Graphtec type 1 or 2 marks. If you were using the ARMS then this wouldn't be a question. If that is the case, why don't you use the plotter's built-in light pen to locate the marks? I assume, since you...

Way too many stars. Two, maybe three max. Rotate them and make them all slightly different sizes. Standing straight up and down like you have them looks impossibly formal.

You might want to blow the dust and crud out of the tool carriage. Pay particular attention to the up/down mechanism. Most times a plotter that either doesn't finish a cut or cuts too far has a tool carriage that's binding because it's dirty.

Somewhat less than a Good Idea. Work in RGB and let the RIP sort it out once at print time. Most RIP packages are far better at this than whatever design/display software you might be using. Moreover, you avoid any intermediate translations from/to RGB and CMYK, each one of which necessarily...

If you drop in a grommet every 24" or so, which you should do anyway, a tape hem is just fine for the vast majority of situations. The reason that banners have sewn hems is probably because there were sewing machines before there was adequate double faced tape and people tend to cling to old...

A civilized banner is always hemmed on all four sides and grommeted every 24". Always. The only time you do not do this is for some specific reason. Here in this shop proper hems and grommets are included in the price, I do not nickel and dime people to death. On the other hand there's no...

Any feed store or farm supply store.

More better, just select the guide in question and enter the desired X or Y position in the space conveniently provided in the property bar.

Just as silly as the hasp key itself. My machines that are used to run Flexi are connected to each other but not the internet. This, for me, is as it should be. I grow weary of software houses that expect me to alter my behavior to accommodate their paranoia. Let the tsunami of...