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Mutoh doesn't sell them separately and only sells the full bar which is about $700 unfortunately.

Check out your local music shop. A lot of times they will have a guy who repairs amps and stuff. I have used our local guy for basic repairs. They usually can't diagnose the issue but if you tell them what to change they do it cheap.

You can put the proper firmware on but you have to find it first. Mimaki doesn't publish those anymore. You will need to get the original parameters for that machine from Mimaki which you can do by just emailing them with your serial number. Also, keep in mind that on the JV3 series you can't...

When I do it I empty the machine out first, then change the dampers and flush with SS21 cleaner 2 - 3 times and then fill with SS21 ink. I haven't had any issues with that but your way is probably a little safer.

The ES3 inks are more environmentally friendly and better for your health. The trade off is they are not very scratch resistant and you will need to laminate absolutely everything if you want long term signage. The SS21 inks are used by probably 90% of Mimaki users. So when you change the ink...

I haven't done this procedure on this specific model but usually when I change long cables that need to be routed properly, I just unplug the old ones, tape the new ones to the old ones and then pull them through by the old cables. It takes the old ones out and puts the new ones in in one movement!

Interesting. Lets say, just to make is simple, that a head only fires 1 dot size of 10 picoliters. If you print 720 dots that is 7200 picoliters of ink. If you print 1440 that would be 14400 or double the amount of ink. How does the profile change the ink consumption? Does it have to do with ink...

The main culprits are usually a crooked take-up system, a telescoped roll of media, dirty platen, worn out pinch rollers, and/or not loading straight to begin with. I would clean the platen with alcohol and get any ink and adhesive build up that might be causing the media to catch. Make sure the...

This is common with spot colors like clear and varnish because people overestimate how much they will use it. You can switch but it is costly. Depending on what color setup you switch to you might have to flush the entire machine or just half the machine. That will cost a good amount in wasted...

The IP address probably reset along with the other settings. I believe the default IP for that machine is 192.168.1.100. If your network is within the 192.168.1 space then you should be able to just set that IP in your RIP software and test it out. If your network is not in that space, you will...

Just in case you didn't know, Roland printers have tapered pinch rollers so if you get the left and right mixed up, it will cause skewing. If you already took care of that, load your material like normally and then draw a line on the right edge of the media on the platen. Now scroll the media...

Arlon 3420 seems to do a good job.

I have never personally done this but the only difference between the RJ900C and RJ900X is a firmware change so technically I would assume it's possible. Some Mutoh boards block you from going from one version to a different one but since it's still the RJ900 I would think that would work. If...

It's going to depend on a few factors like resolution and other profile settings. In general a good cost to go by is 15 - 30 cents per square foot. 15 for low coverage prints which lots of ink free area and up to 30 cents for full coverage. If you print at a super high resolution like 1200 x...

I think it's a myth in the industry for some reason or another but you are correct that pass count doesn't affect ink saturation. If you are printing 720 x 720 4 pass, it prints 180 dots per pass to eventually add up to 720 so there are always 720 dots printed no matter how many passes. The...

Depending on which version of main board he has it could also be F3 near the black heat sink.

If you are using the CMYK color space in your design software, you are technically within gamut by default and the software will usually tell you if you have a color that is not within gamut, in Adobe Illustrator at least. So basically as long as your document is in CMYK mode, it will warn you...

PNG is a widely used web image format. JPEG also works though.

I don't use cutters enough to know but most of my customers use brand new 60 degree blades on stuff like that and they seem to go through a lot so I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. It is definitely true that any blade will wear faster cutting that stuff due to the abrasiveness of it.

The Summas have a great reputation on this site and I think it's mostly because they are built well and the media tracking is excellent. Summa is one of the only brands that offer a true tangential cutter which means the blade actually rotates to the proper angle before cutting rather than just...