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'drawing', and 'exactly' are contradictions, when talking of a belt buckle. That tells you it is only his pencilled rendition, and gives you scope to fix or improve legibility etc. It also sounds like you need to spend a bit of time learning about printing halftones, for your own knowledge &...

We're in Qld, and have a few cartridges and heads still going - but I can see the head cleaning cartridges as being a possible sourcing issue. There must be some way to get fresh paper towelling and wind up a new roll in an old head-cleaning cart...? (I have 2 spare - so am not in panic stages yet!)

Even if you make your own version, there is a knack, or a learning curve to using it well and efficiently.

We'll just have to keep it our little secret then - 'utilitarian' is an understatement for Workhorse! ;)

'Egyptian', I used to find mentioned most in older sign painting books... We just called them block letters, or plain block letters, as opposed to a thick-and-thin block letters. The nicest most practical computer font these days of that style that I like is Work Horse, from LHF, developed by...

Will the heater unit from a 25500 fit in the 260? P.S. what country are you in? I have a spare 260, and two 25500s for parts!

I didn't buy from Ebay... I just had a look there, and it surprised me! I do use our local supplier - or I did when the 792s inks and cleaning cartridges were available. But I used to get the 789 inks from Ebay for a better price than the supplier though...

I'm a tinkerer - hence still using the 260 - and still nurturing a 32 year old cnc router... but I was just asking for a bit of detail, re the procedures, that's all! I saw the price of 831 heads on Ebay - quite a bit more expensive than the old 260s used to be, but it got me thinking, I have a...

That would be a bit of work, sucking all the 831 incorrect half colour out, so muddiness or contamination don't wreck the tone of the refreshed heads... Do you manually refill using the dregs of old ink cartridges you've pulled apart?

The 831 heads have a totally different colour combination than the 792s... eg black isn't with yellow, and C/LC are not together... I'm not sure how they'd work now...

If you are lucky, there may be a mainboard fuse...

2D software is simpler that 3D, for 'designs' - not everything needs to be 3D... It's easier to start the design in Illy or Corel or other signage programs, and then save as Ai/DXF, and then open in a 3D program. Use Google to search the subject...

Flat paint = low surface energy - like trying to stick to sandpaper. I'd brush or roll on a coat of a clear gloss varnish or acrylic clear - but glossy - and then see if the vinyl will stick better to that.

Hmm... although we have an original CD, it is broken in the centre- cracked physicaly. I managed to get FC running on a new Win7 PC with Corel X5, after I took the 'serial issuance number' that it generated for me, on the previous PC that had died due to old age. (I had saved the number) That...

Put a hot-air gun over it to post-cure the greasiness out of it, yourself, in the meantime...

Jean, the parallel port is a long one, with about 25 holes/pins in 2 rows of 13 & 12. (Sometimes called a longer serial port, also known as DB-25, and RS-232) The serial port is a shorter one - 9 holes or pins, in 2 rows of 5 & 4. If there is short blue one with 3 rows, it'll be the VGA graphics...

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'Following'... interested in the 831 modded aspect, and how to change the chips - is soldering needed, or are they a click-in item?

In a pinch, just put 3 layers of sellotape or 1 of signwriter's tape over the existing strip - I got a year more use doing that! Ebay China seems to have a few - but you need to know the width,(eg 3/16" wide, or 5.0mm or whatever) not the brand, as even Roland varied their widths over time, plus...

Are you 'milling' it, or just trying to cut the perimeter of a shape in it?