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$5/sqft is high for wholesale printing, really high in my opinion The main thing to look for is the test draw, this gives you a good indication of how well it will print. Common things that wear out on the JV3 include the pulley bearings, the Y motor (it will be REALLY loud), the take up...

An SSD will probably offer the most significant performance boost over anything else in my opinion. I'd figure out how to work one into your build.

HP has no such "warranty" that I'm aware of. It would be nearly impossible to warranty something like that with the amount of materials you could print on. I believe what you are experiencing is a typical Sign Show sales pitch. As others have stated, the durability is totally dependant on...

Since you aren't getting any replies, I can tell you my experience with the M3000. In short it is dated technology but reliable. The artpath software that runs it is pretty simple to use, but don't expect to be blown away by the interface. The machine is a tank, built pretty beefy. When I...

The tracing engine has been redone and works pretty well. Depending on the size of files you have to open 64 bit can be a good enough reason to upgrade.

I like having the pages listed on the home page now. However, yes the list of pages should be on the bottom of the page also. This isn't very difficult to add with Vbulletin.

A friend of mine bought the CJV with metallic and white. He has a very niche market and we both thought he would be able to use it a lot. In the end he used it a few times a week and had to convert back to 6 color. The CVJ according to Mimaki cannot go from CMYK LC LM W S to CMYK LC LM W W...

Well, everybody has made typos. Not a specific story but most mistakes I dealt with were somehow related to failure to deliver what the customer expects because of proofing issues. I know it sounds simple, but rock solid proofing practices will save a lot of headache. Conveying to the...

Loved the Art Deco in the first game. All three are works of art though, very impressive.

Their product is probably as good or better than what you are doing. Sorry, online sites like this one do business in bulk with more man power and equipment than most small shops. I'm sure their order process is streamlined also, so when you are arguing with your customer about prices this...

I'm assuming this procedure is the same as on the JV5. When the machine is sitting idle the ink valves are closed. When the machine starts to print you usually hear an audible "click" noise which is the valves opening. There is a valve on each ink line so that is why you can't pull ink. It...

The 26500 inkset is considerably more glossy than the 25500. So much so we thought the ink wasn't cured properly compared to the 25. So to each his own, the 26500 pretty much took care of the gloss issue IMO. If you want high gloss use laminate.

Air is getting into the system somewhere... finding it is the trick. I don't think this is software related at all. I would've said cracked manifold or o ring on manifold but you changed the print head? What about the o ring on the damper?

There is a reason Mimaki started putting high flow dampers on the SPII revision JV3. We could never get this print mode to work without ink starving on the original JV3 160. It was pretty obviously running out of ink, but ran like a champ at 8 pass. Have you used this mode before with this...

By the way the pattern is offset on the 2nd pass makes me think you have something on that exact spot on your encoder strip. Look for as splatter of cleaning fluid or ink. This is pretty common.

Take off the back access panel and you can pull ink or solution gently down through the capping station by hooking into the pump lines. If the machine sat unplugged odds are you have some bad heads which could easily cost more to replace than what you paid for the machine itself.

Used onyx since 6.5 to the latest release and honestly I feel like a beta tester. We routinely ran into flat out bugs, crashing issues, and rendering issues. Our shop was heavily invested in it so it wasn't an economical switch to make. Most of the things I would consider bugs had to do with...

If you were a really light work load shop I would say the 26500. It really isn't meant to be a high volume machine, although a lot of shops really run them hard. My experience personally with them they aren't as reliable as the JV33. The JV33 is more than proven these days as I don't think...

There isn't one. It also needs to stay plugged in or the solvent will dry in the heads. Have you printed with it yet? Are you sure the heads are good? If you are using the SS2 ink set it needs ventilation. Hopefully you have the manual that came with the machine. That will at least get...

Have you visually inspected the bottom of the yellow head? That sort of pattern is sometimes a bad head strike.