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  1. Question What is the Purpose of Dampers in a Print Head Carriage?

    Filters right at the head sounds like a good idea. Sort of like a fuel filter for a vehicle. I read somewhere that they recommend replacing the dampers after a certain period of time, but wouldn't it make more sense to base the maintenance on usage rather than time? There is going to be a big...
  2. Question What is the Purpose of Dampers in a Print Head Carriage?

    It's just a basic question about what they are supposed to do. I am curious to know the function or purpose for the dampers that sit above the print head, and why they would need to be changed a regular intervals? They look like little tanks with baffles and don't appear to have any moving parts...
  3. Need Help Diagnosing Printing Issues VJ1204

    I may end up replacing the head on this printer. I found a company by the name of DutaPrint in Japan that supposedly sells the DX5 DF-49684 head for the VJ-1204 for $205 dollars plus $25 bucks for tax, shipping and insurance. I checked with them to see if the price was a typo but they said it's...
  4. Question Does Anyone Make a Printer That Can Sit Idle Without harm?

    Wow, thank for all the great replies. Gives me a lot to consider.
  5. Question Does Anyone Make a Printer That Can Sit Idle Without harm?

    I guess it's counterproductive for a printer manufacturers to design the machine to automatically circulate a small amount of ink through the nozzles at regular intervals even when it's off. It would be nice to be able to take off on a three or four week vacation and not have to worry about...
  6. Question Does Anyone Make a Printer That Can Sit Idle Without harm?

    I've been a slave to my Mutoh printer for 8 long years, having to run a cleaning once a week to prevent the print head from clogging up. Is there anyone that makes a wide format printer of any type that is designed to sit idle for any length of time without causing some kind of harm or damage...
  7. Need Help Diagnosing Printing Issues VJ1204

    It may be a blessing in disguise. I have been a slave to this printer for years having to schedule my life around being here once a week to run the cleaning. I would have never bought the thing if they had told me I could not let it sit idle for any length of time without ruining the print head...
  8. Need Help Diagnosing Printing Issues VJ1204

    I purchased the printer in 2012, but I am just a hobby printer. I've done very little printing with it and what little I've done barely paid for the materials I used up in the process. I've probably used more ink doing the weekly cleaning needed to keep the print head from clogging up than I've...
  9. Need Help Diagnosing Printing Issues VJ1204

    OK, I got my replacement camera cable, here are a couple of photos. In one you can clearly see how the blues are streaking out of the letters, but reds seem to be fine. In the other you can see the wide bands of blue shading. It's hardly noticeable but there should not be anything there except...
  10. Need Help Diagnosing Printing Issues VJ1204

    I was going to but I lost the USB cable to my camera. I'll post a picture once the new cable arrives.
  11. Need Help Diagnosing Printing Issues VJ1204

    I am starting to get some strange output from my printer. Almost looks like some kind of over spray making wide bands of just wisp of a shadow. Is there any place that has sample pictures of unusual outputs to compare with as a diagnostic tool?
  12. Need Help Flexi Cloud Will Not Run/Start

    I messed it up good. I started fooling around with the license manager and somehow managed to associate it with the dongle, but now if I try to undo it the manage wants to remove the dongle license completely off the computer. I may just abandon the older version an try to migrate the settings...
  13. Need Help Flexi Cloud Will Not Run/Start

    Well, I do have a dongle for the later versions, but I do seem to recall needing to be connected to the Internet for the Cloud version to phone home for verification. I thought I tried it while connected but maybe I should try again. I think it's v 11.1987
  14. Need Help Flexi Cloud Will Not Run/Start

    I have several versions of Flexi Sign on my computer. It's easier to keep the old version running than it is to try to transfer the configurations to the newer versions. I went to start the earliest version of Flexi Cloud I have installed and it won't start. When I double click the icon I get...
  15. Trouble finding a true RED

    Good Reds I had a hell of a time getting good reds out of my Mutoh printer. I ended up printing the CYMK chart built into Flexi then I use the color squares to determine the values to use in my work. It matters not how it looks on the screen because I know the values I specify will produce the...
  16. Flexi Cloud Is Here!

    Clarification I should clarify my post. You can install this upgrade just for the sake of playing around with it because it does leave your existing version completely untouched. I should also tell you any files you create with the Cloud version are not compatible with previous versions, or at...
  17. Flexi Cloud Is Here!

    I installed the update but I'm very disappointed. I thought it would just upgrade my existing 10.5 but instead it installs as a separate new program. This means it's like installing Flexi for the first time and having to set up all your customization from scratch, redoing all the settings you...
  18. Any way to make Flexi 7.5 work on windows 7???

    A-B Switches I did the A-B switch thing on my hobby computers. I have one machine dedicated to video editing and then another computer as a dedicated multi-track audio recorder-editor. I bought a single A-B-C-D switch and cables from Altex in Texas that has the inputs and outputs for the...
  19. Any way to make Flexi 7.5 work on windows 7???

    Quick fix The quickest fix for your problem would be to go down to the nearest GoodWill and buy an old used XP computer for a hundred bucks and use that for your cutter. The next step up, if XP Mode doesn't work on the Win 7 machine, would be to make your hard drive a dual boot machine using a...
  20. How Do YOU Weed Text Inside a Border?

    Thanks GAC05, I will give that a try. Time is money, and I suppose if I was just sitting around with nothing better to do, and didn't mind making 3 bucks an hour weeding, I would be happy doing it all by hand. But you can' make a living working like that, or at least I can't. Weeding is...
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