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From what I have seen, solvent printable fabric is not something you would want to wear. It's more for flags and banner type applications. As mentioned above, dye sub is the way to go for fabric, especially for clothing.

It resembles an encoder issue but the magenta line is pointing more towards an electrical short. Turn the machine off, unplug it and hit the power button a couple times. Wait about 10 minutes and then double check all of you head cables. At this point everyone always say, "I know they are in...

From personal and customer experience. We used to sell refillable cartridges. We stopped when people started sending them back and charging back. We tried 3 different manufacturers. And by the way, we don't sell bulk systems, so I have no incentive to muddy the waters about refillable...

They introduce way too many problems to save you any money. If you are going to go with a bulk system, which I only recommend if you are going through at least a full set of cartridges per month, spend the money on a professional, fully closed system that uses a mid-cartridge. Refillable...

Good post. To add, the Vj1604 had a design flaw that allowed the ink to dry in the waste tubes much more frequently. A fix I have found for this is to cut a slit in the large drain tube (on top of the tube) and put the waste tubes into the slit so that the tubes are always pointing down rather...

I don't work on latex machines, I do not sell HP printers and I have no reason to defend them but to me that looks like whoever calibrated that machine just didn't or didn't know how to properly. That graininess is due to inaccurate dot placement for sure. Unless the sample was printed on 360...

For service calls, we don't charge travel for in town customers as a courtesy so if they are both in town, free. Out of town, I figure out the mileage with google maps before I head down. Then I charge the customer's for their leg only. The first customer gets the way down and the second...

Just to make sure no one is confused, the F2 fuse on a VJ1324 is 750mA. Do not put a 2 amp fuse in to replace a 750mA or you will damage the head and/or other printer components. The link above is for the correct part but the image is of another fuse.

It can't hurt to print some color charts using a few different profiles. I know a lot of shops who do. If your reds were looking good and now they aren't as vibrant, it is possible you have ink flow issues on the printer itself. If magenta starts to drop out, reds start to look more orange/faded...

Call GCC. Unless someone here has a file to download, GCC doesn't make the drivers available unless you sign up to be in their "club". If you call them, they might send it to you via email. Otherwise, go to their site and register for the "club" and you should be able to download the driver.

The profile which best prints the colors you desire. The short story is, if you want the best, vibrant, color and want to have control over it, you have to profile the material yourself, in the environment you're in, on the material you print on, on the printer brand and model you use, using the...

Why not set it up as a Graphtec?

If you bought it new from a Mimaki dealer, the board should have come with the proper connector. See below: Proper connector: If you bought the board used, you are out of luck as Mimaki doesn't sell them separately. To make your own (at your own risk!!!) see below: The pins in the picture...

The CE5000 is fully capable of cutting contour cuts and reflective vinyl. It won't cut the diamond grade stuff but anything that is similar to vinyl it will cut. The 5000 was a good model and is only out of date by 1 generation. If you set it up right, as long as nothing is broken, it should do...

You need to run the alignments in order and do all of them. The order the alignments are in the service menu is the correct order. Once you have done the service menu alignments, run the user menu ones. If you do that, your issue will go away. Physical Alignments - Require Tools Bias - aligns...

Roland generally uses the same fuse as Mutoh and labels the fuse F2 usually. Sometimes it can be F3 but I don't work on a lot of the new Rolands so I am not 100%. Test all the fuses you see for continuity and it if one is bad, replace it.

If a cartridge fails and the printer can be ruled out (a lot of these cases end up being bad maintenance stations), replacing the cartridge is the only acceptable action. We have had it happen a couple times with 3rd party and OEM inks where the actual cartridge failed. We always replace the...

The fuse is on the main board and is labeled F2. It is located very near the edge of the board next to the large black metal piece that sticks up off the board. Depending on the year your printer was made, the fuse is either soldered on or socketed. My guess on a 1204 is that it is solder only...

Every cutter has a different type of crop marks and settings but the workflow is essentially the same. Get the manual for your cutter and it will tell you how to setup a contour job specifically for that cutter. You don't have to do anything different on the printer. The basic workflow is...

Subtank refill is a natural occurrence and isn't a problem unless it gets stuck on that screen. Every once in a while the machine needs to refill the tank when it gets too low. If something fails it generally gives you a subtank error. Turn the machine on and allow the machine to fill the...