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Some lawyer looking to pad his fees I would suspect. Nobody is that stupid. Greedy is another matter altogether.

If you don't do a lot of variable data, sometimes it's best to step the artwork up in illustrator or something similar and just add the numbers manually. It goes pretty quick. It's not something I'd like to make a career out of, but it gets the job done for the odd variable data job that comes...

Has anybody dealt with S&P Brokerage out of Avalon, California before? Good? Bad? Smooth dealings? I get a little apprehensive buying stuff sight unseen from a person I've never dealt with before.

32 years in the business of putting ink on stuff. I'm only 41 years old. Kid's, if your dad works in the print business.... run away from home!

It prints great if you create your own profiles. Using the canned ones is always a crap shoot.

Probably using memjet heads. http://www.memjetwideformat.com/ How exactly will it dry the ink if it's using an aqueous ink? It would need ovens and a very long media path like a web offset press. Probably why it will only handle paper based substrates, so they can be clay coated or at least a...

Are you sending the file with an input profile attached?

It's entirely plausible that if it hung on data transfer, it could have confused the printer and crashed the printer system software. But yeah, I've never seen a panel lock up either. They tend to be rock solid.

Could be a network issue with the data transfer. Main boards tend to be good or bad and nothing in between so I doubt you have one on the way out as you say. I'd look at the rip first and try and sort out any communication issues, but I have zero experience with flexi so I can't help you there.

Yes head soak/nozzle wash. Every time I add fluid it just drains out. Update: Must have been an airlock. Tried again after another job and it's holding fluid fine. Sponges are nice and clean looking now too.

It's happened once before and sorted itself out, but I'd like to nip it in the bud. For all the times I've replaced print heads and dampers I've never had to deal with a capping station issue. It should be something simple (hopefully), but I'm hoping you guys can help me out with where to start...

Sounds like your opus mark reader/camera needs to be calibrated. I'm not sure how to do it with a mimaki, but it was pretty easy with my summa and fixed an identical problem. The camera is reading the marks, but it's not calibrated to start the cut in the right position.

That's a big adjustment. Just out of curiosity, how much time and materials did it take to finally arrive at these settings?

+1 on bad dampers

It requires two layers to achieve a smooth gradient with spot colors. On the bottom layer have a solid block of red. On the top layer you have a gradient from white to black. Set the top object to "multiply" in the transparency palette. That how I set the files up in illustrator anyhow. Not...

I'm not sure what particular paint he uses, but a friend of mine who paints parking lot and traffic lines for a living uses General Paint for all his asphalt painting. He'd been through a few brands before settling in with general.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4143850&CatId=511 $15 is too much to spend? What are you going to do when you need to buy a roll of vinyl?

Temperature and humidity can and will affect print quality and color reproduction. It doesn't necessarily have to be the heat settings on your machine either. Ambient temp and especially humidity need to be controlled for accurate results.

My free upgrades ended @ 6.4 and I'm a little PO'd at Wasatch at the moment. Not a big fan of their customer service. I may make the move to colorburst if they can support a JV33/Summa T-head combo. I'm making do at the moment since I'm also looking at a flatbed printer and cutter system that...

Can you say body shop courtesy car wrap?