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You can also just set a 99minute custody wash for a similar effect, and that'd be the next step (potentially) after we verify whether or not he has ink flow. Famous: to take the cover off your carriage simply remove the two phillips screws in the center of the black plastic housing on the...

Open up the carriage and take a pictures of the lines and dampers so we can see if there's air or ink in them.

I take it you mean that crap outnumbers quality, and while that's the truth, the money jobs are on the quality side of the spectrum in our experience. Everyone is happier working on them, the product is something you can be proud of, and the checks don't bounce because the clients are...

Great post, this is my feeling as well. You can compete on quality and service but competing on price alone is a losing game over time. When you start cutting corners you're staring down the barrel. Many shops cut the design and marketing corners, so it's great to see you list them as some of...

To get back on track, how we handle color management depends highly on the particular job. In-house design is done in a fully managed environment (can give details if anyone is interested), but client files can be all over the board--sometimes we're able to maintain color management, sometimes...

Comparison reference only, as long as you know how to scan correctly and aren't using a cheap scanner with a tiny gamut, it's a useful shift comparison technique--not a color match or color sample technique, obviously. Both sides know the color of the pantone--the other side just doesn't know...

Always useful for those times you need to drive through the Barbie retail store while stalking a deer.

I really, really don't like the typography. Ditch the serif. The papyrus logo really bugs me too but I'm guessing that's out of your control.

You could probably use a microfiber lens cleaning cloth (the kind for glasses) but I haven't tried it. Use compressed air first as artbot suggests.

In the prosumer space Epson is king, look at the v700. Not only are the optics superior but a lot of little details like the stepping motor / gears are as well, and the included EpsonScan software is the best OEM software on the market (though VueScan or Silverfast are still superior by a good...

How are you saving your files, .ai? Are they both running the same version of Illustrator?

Coming from the offset and web worlds to sign making, I use PDF/X-4 or PDF/X1-a for just about everything. EPS is a terrible format for layout output.

If you did that you'd end up with about ninteen thousand printouts due to how illustrator treats it's layer/object metaphors. Create multiple art boxes on your pasteboard. That way you can work on multiple comps from within the pasteboard without this particular problem (which I assume is your...

We didn't notice much of a profile difference from 6 to 7 but I do highly recommend reprofiling everything whenever you have a major RIP software revision upgrade. Start from the OEM profiles, clone them and then edit the clones with your specific ink limits, color calibrations, etc. (and if...

To throw some gas on the fire, this is changing--modern web browsers are beginning to support embedded ICC, and with the shift to more and more households having decent LCDs even on their crappy $500 computers color accuracy on the web is finally starting to show some improvement. If you're...

Greyed out for me too but you can launch it directly from it's exe or shortcut in your Start Menu. We just tell all the Onyx parts (preflight, cut, etc.) to stay pinned to the top of the Start Menu and launch from there. No clue why preflight is greyed out though, shouldn't be. Still advising...

Getting a number of hard crashes and a bunch of other issues (like sort by time not sorting correctly). I'd hold off.

And you never know when you'll get one of these "special" rolls either! I check the attachment now anytime I'm going to be running near to the end of a roll just for this reason. At least it just prints in place instead of pulling the roll up into the machine, that sounds like a terrible feed...

Upgraded yesterday, only major thing we've noticed is they moved where you select cut paths. Now cut paths are indicated as part of a particular job's settings (or applied by a quickset to a job) and will function even with conserve media, instead of only print individually. That may end up...

We've been happy with Onyx ProductionHouse 7, we can get a lot more quality out of it than was ever possible with Flexi. Took quite a bit of time to really learn but now that it's dialed in we're highly automated with very few issues. I'd love to try Caldera VisualRip+ sometime though for sure.