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Rendering - 16 bit is better than 8 bit by far in every case. The only reason I can think of to use 8bit is on simple designs that only have a few colors and no gradients or transitions such as a banner with a solid color background and solid color text. The advantage is it will RIP faster. If...

Much like the auto repair industry, most, if not all, official dealers will not touch a part that doesn't come from them. A majority of independent techs will either not touch that part or they will assume no liability if the part is installed and doesn't work. So while China is usually cheaper...

From what I am seeing, the vinyl is bad/old/dirty. Get some new vinyl and try it out to rule that out. If it still prints like it is on new vinyl, you are going to need to adjust the heat settings, run the head alignments and make sure all of the nozzles are firing. The CJV30 is completely...

The DX2 and DX3 are often confused with each other but they are completely different heads. The DX3 head was not used in a lot of machines so it is kind of mysterious. Your machine has the DX2 for sure. There is no such thing as third party or aftermarket DX2-7 heads. No one manufactures these...

This just means you have to have media loaded in order to do the adjustment. Load some media!

No problem! Some people get lucky and have the newer style boards with the fuse holders. Almost all of the newer models do it this way now.

A fuse on the head board has blown. Each group is protected by 1 fuse so if the fuse blows the whole group fails. You will need to solder a new one on or have someone do it for you. You will want to double check all of the cables before replacing the fuse to make sure it wasn't one of them that...

Specialty Materials has the CPS2160 product that works on both solvent and latex. It has a good feel to it and is very reliable.

What kind of bubbles are you getting? Most people are using cold laminators these days so you should be able to get good results with your machine. If they are tiny bubbles, it's most likely dust and you can just get an air compressor to help blow off the particles or even a swiffer to dust the...

Right now the DX4 print heads and beyond are still being manufactured. The DX4 heads should be around for a long time as very many machines and brands use them so there is a lot more source material out there for them. The DX5 print head is probably the most used print head when it comes to...

The material you are cutting will require a flatbed cutter and $600 won't buy the stand it rests on even used. You might need to go back to the drawing board on this one.

You have been misinformed. Mutoh re-brands the GCCs and Mimaki makes their own cutters. The reason I bring it up is because the Mimaki cutters are are some of the best cutters in the industry and GCC's are horrible.

First get the obvious out of the way and make sure your computer isn't falling asleep during the printing process. If it does, change your sleep settings off. Second obvious answer is change the USB cable and see if that helps at all. If those two things are working properly, you could have all...

The DX2 print head stopped being manufactured about 4-5 years ago. Any DX2 head you find out there will be one of the last ones to exist. Epson does not release technical info on their heads so you are going to have a hard time finding anything other than reverse engineering a mother board from...

The original resolution of an image is as high as it will ever be so up-sampling it in Photoshop is a step you can skip. The ability to have an image scale up to 1/1 from 1/10 has everything to do with choosing a high resolution image to begin with. When you copy and paste an image into...

You could try flushing the cyan channel directly with a syringe and cleaning solution. This method can cause internal damage in certain cases so it is usually my last resort but it is the only way to unclog nozzles sometimes. I would say half the time it works and the other half nothing happens...

Normally you would just need to raise the head height but the SP300V doesn't have that feature. The max media thickness for that machine is 1mm including the backer. I would suspect that the material you are using is close to or over that limit. Might need to sub it out.

It looks like your alignments are off specifically the print feed. The bi-directional alignment would help with graininess as well.

I would disagree with that. The thread you saw was probably someone who ran into one issue with it and swore it off for life.

The clear coat then cut work flow you described will work fine. It is common to design at scale and then enlarge in the RIP with big jobs. You just have to remember to scale your DPI settings as well. So say you are designing a 10' x 20' banner and you want the final resolution to be 100dpi at...