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  1. Vacuum hole dust spots on fabric

    When I print fabric on my flatbed, I end up with little spots where the vacuum holes are that appear to be dust filtered from the air by the fabric. Wiping with a damp rag, and compressed air doesn't seem to remove it. The only way I can think to prevent it would be some sort of tacky board I...
  2. Alcohol streaks in UV prints

    When I got a the machine earlier this year and asked on this forum about primer, several people said just cleaning the surface with alcohol was enough to improve ink adhesion. Likely, this is due to the mold release used in manufacture of cast acrylic sheets. I've done it on small sheets just...
  3. Alcohol streaks in UV prints

    They were the only company that sent me a sample of their product when I asked. They seem really nice. I used it on a small piece as a comparison with/without and it seemed to work great. I just need to figure out a tool/process to put it on a whole 4x8 sheet without streaks. I saw someone on...
  4. Alcohol streaks in UV prints

    My operator tried to apply Natron M74F primer to a sheet of 1/2" clear acrylic, and apparently we're still doing something wrong, as he applied it and noticed streaks after it dried. He messed with it for 30min, going over again with primer, and then finally resorting to isopropyl alcohol to get...
  5. Mimaki JFX 200-2513

    It looks like all of the heads are leaking. Check the pressure levels. Negative pressure holds the ink in, positive pushes it out. Another option is it was without power for an extended period of time and without negative pressure.
  6. Acrylic light box

    Here is one I did. I did a wood frame so it was sturdy and serviceable, and stuck acrylic to the outside. In this case, they wanted the face white, but not showing light through which turned out to be a challenge. 3015 was not as opaque as it appeared once there was real light behind it. Even...
  7. UPS for my flatbed?

    I'm not expecting it to prevent loss of the job, just loss of the equipment itself. We had a near-tornado like storm this year and lost power for a full day. We apparently had a surge prior to it going out. It fried a VFD. It killed one of several 24volt power supplies driving one of our laser...
  8. UPS for my flatbed?

    I have a JFX200/2352EX and we periodically have thunderstorms. On a bad storm earlier this year, we had several pieces of electronics damaged. Luckily, they were repairable for a few hundred dollars in parts. But the cost of parts is only one expense, as the loss of use is much greater. I'm...
  9. Profiling in Onyx

    Continuing on the white underprint version, when I got to the ICC swatches, it offered me CMYK+spot options. I was going to select a regular one because I can't measure white ink swatches on clear. But at the bottom of the window it said that I had to select an option with a spot color in order...
  10. Profiling in Onyx

    After successfully setting up a profile on paper, I set out to do a profile for clear acrylic. I was advised to use material as thin as possible and the thinnest acrylic is 0.06" thick, so I'm using some thin 0.02" acetate film from a project. Per the video on setting up spot colors, I wanted...
  11. Does illustrator "bloat" pdf's?

    I've noticed that if I save something in RGB color space, the file is like 200k, whereas simply changing it to CMYK makes it 1.1MB which seems odd. Sure it's more data, but only 33% more. When saving as PDF, I've been going with Illustrator Default, because High quality Print and Press Quality...
  12. Onyx CMYK+W+CMYK

    Mimaki JFX200-2351EX
  13. Onyx CMYK+W+CMYK

    We do a lot of stir sticks and definitely want those double sided, so color-white-color works best. Beyond that, our clients don't really understand the need for white to make it opaque, so think if we're printing color on the back, it should be visible on the back too. It's primarily stuff for...
  14. Onyx CMYK+W+CMYK

    I'm in the process of building out an install of Onyx Go+ 24. It has a lot of features I've not yet uncovered, but it seems quite capable. For example, on jobs larger than the selected material, it automatically tiles it and after printing each tile, it moves the head out of the way and prompts...
  15. Two installs of onyx go+ on same license?

    The Onyx rep confirmed that this isn't possible. I guess I'll just setup a PC next to the laser printer that can remotely control the other one.
  16. Onyx 24 new user questions (Mimaki JFX200-2513EX)

    Ok, so I spent a lot of time on calibration this weekend (on paper). and have a few takeaways: - Setting Ink limits was not clear. The instructions focused on looking for defects, but in this case, I didn't consider any of them bad. It mentioned an embossed look being an issue, so I picked ones...
  17. Gradient white print out of Rasterlink??

    It works just as you outlined. Set the gradient to (in our case, Cyan), output it as a separate file. Import into RL, select mono color, and replace cyan with white. Then composite with the CMYK file and print. I've also done it as a raster image. I brought it into Photoshop, set it to...
  18. Two installs of onyx go+ on same license?

    They're on the same network. But typically, I send one page as a test print, and then send the rest. Or a job consists of multiple short runs and the printer doesn't have an interface to control that. I don't want to have to walk back and forth across the whole shop to access the computer Onyx...
  19. Two installs of onyx go+ on same license?

    I have a laser printer and our flatbed, both are supported by onyx and fit on the go+ license (2 printers, 3 rip engines. However, they’re in totally different locations in the building. Can I have two installs of the software if each only drive one printer from each?
  20. Acrylic ink adhesion

    1 liter was the minimum the others offered. “We’ve sold it for this purpose for years” was the best he could offer in support of my application.
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