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ditto what eazyED said. Dunno howmany rollers yours has, but you have to use all of them, the two outside ones must be on the edges, they have more pressure than the inside rollers. Also, again, not sure on the exact specs of your plotter, but on our S160D, the outside rollers have adjustable...

Good luck with the no primer needed. They used to do our sandblasting (we're about 5 minutes from them, before we found Blue Ridge Fabrication), but we always, always always had issues with paint sticking to that stuff, regardless of what type of paint we used. We even had finishes fail that...

Actually, while I'm thinking of it, what file format were your cut files when you got the printer error? I do recall having a couple missing cut files when we used .pdf files with cut paths. Didn't happen all the time, but I remember a handful of times.

We went through two FC7000s and an FC5100 before giving up on graphtec, I don't think they're that good at contour cutting. I'm not sure about the printing error issues, that sounds like a software issue that we've never encountered, but your plotter issues are par for the course. We solved...

yeah, do tell.

My favorite way is to do a duotone with the colors/shades I want, you seem to have alot of control over the image this way.

So which oracal profile are you using and what translucent media are you using? Profile absolutely can affect banding. If you're using the wrong profile for the media, that could be a big reason why you're seeing the issues you are. Can you post a picture of the banding you're experiencing?

oh dear god we get that all the time. We once did 50 yard signs for someone, all had an arrow on them, double sided. We had them all stacked up leaning against a wall in the lobby when they arrive to pick them up, all of the arrows were facing one way. They freaked out and started yelling about...

What rip are you running? Sounds like your technicians are idiots. We run translucent material regularly without a problem, it prints great, including spot colors. We also run regular vinyl non-stop, again, prints great. If your rip or your profiles suck, your prints will suck. If you don't know...

I recognize there's a language barrier here, but wtf is a pube tumb wash???

We've been really happy with our Summa S160d. It's our fourth Summa, they all track dead straight (as long as you load the media straight). We regularly run full 50y rolls of vinyl without having to reload to adjust.

http://www.issmart.net/cf.html I don't know how much this stuff is or where to buy it, but I just stumbled across it the other day on another forum. It's made by 3M, apparently has Controltac adhesive and is very conformable. It's a heat stamped film so it's 3D, meaning the light reflection...

Yeah, the stuff is great for yard signs and event signs and other short term things you don't really have to worry about down the road. I still would be concerned about that adhesive, even though I don't think it will cause any problems just because of the vinyl's intended use, something's wrong...

Neil, I've never seen that. The first thing that comes to mind is to make sure it is 203 and not 204 which is a low-tack removable version. But if it really is 203, it sounds like something is wrong with it. It does use an acrylic adhesive, which is common to all economy grade and many medium...

You're lucky, changing head height on our JV3 throws it off enough that the print quality suffers, so we have to do it. We don't do it when we raise it to run banners, but we calibrate it when we drop it back down for vinyl. The funny thing is, on our JV33, we don't have to raise or lower the...

high for banners or other thick media, low for thin media like vinyl, paper, etc.. It does move, albeit a tiny amount. It's a safety precaution to help avoid headstrikes. This is especiall helpful for running thicker materials that can't take much heat, like banner material. Banner tends to...

What kind of firewire card did you get? It works best with the Texas Instruments chipset, don't ask me why, it's just what I was told by both Mimaki and Onyx tech support. Also, make sure it's a high-quality cable. Have you downloaded the latest mimaki firewire driver from mimaki's website? A...

Try 20/30/40/100 or 60/40/20/100, either of those give us great rich black on our JV33 and JV3. It sort of sounds like there may be an issue in the color workflow somewhere, like conflicting profiles or something.

Yup. super simple, follow the install directions in Coles link, you should be up and running in 30 minutes tops. Nothing to it, just a head flush and cleaning procedure and then ink fillup. Good luck!

For calendered vinyl for temporary (up to 3 years), try General Formulations 203, it's sold by fellers as their Concept 203 or Grimco as their Briteline 3203. It's very inexpensive, prints great (use an unmodified profile for Orajet 3651), and holds up great. They also make a matte version of it...