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  1. Employees on Cell Phones

    Texting/Social Media is a no no on our production floor. We do allow them to listen to music on their phones during production time. Only catch a few that try to get away with doing the no no's. The one's who cannot comply are no longer with us after numerous verbal and written warning. We...
  2. The jump to Flatbed / Finishing Table (Kongsberg)

    We have two 4x8 flatbeds, and purchased a Kongsberg XN24 3 years ago. The Kongsberg has been a blessing, but can be a bit pricey to operate. 90% of the work we do on our Kongsberg is acrylic sheets. The bits do not last long till your edge quality suffers. We are spending around $300-$500 a...
  3. Question Agfa Anapruna Ink

    We switched to Nazdar years ago in our Gandinnovations 1224, great ink. The stopped making a bendable ink and had to go back to Polymeric inks which has been nothing but issues. I'd recommend Nazdar for sure. Or check with Triangle/INX
  4. What the Font app

    Has anyone else played around with this App from Google Play store? Worked on everything I've searched for. Just snap a photo of the text, crop, and it will search for fonts. Very nice time saving app.
  5. Question Cleaning acrylic for flatbed printing

    99% Isopropyl alcohol is what we use for adhesion promotion. We also use tack rags for removing dust and plastic kerf
  6. Onyx Thrive Layout for small parts? (for Oce Arizona 1260)

    Just layout your jig in illustrator and rip program in Onyx, that is all we do when it comes to multi up layouts for our flatbeds. We only use Onyx as a rip software only.
  7. Need Help Price Setting for UV Printing on Acrylic

    You're looking at about 50 sq ft of media, apprx $2.09 a sq ft, so apprx $105 in media. If we were using our quoting formula for our operation to cut, print, pack along with all setup time to cut and print something like this you are looking at around $30.00 per sign w/ cost and profit. $30.00...
  8. Esko C60

    I've felt your pain. We have an XN 24, and we had a lot of issues with the machine after it was installed, up to the point where they extended the warranty for an additional 6 months. We do all our layouts in Illustrator and not the iCut layout software as we were not a fan of that software...
  9. Suggestions Looking for a 24" x 36"...........

    We make ones out of wood, can be as nice wood or, stripped down basic as much as you want We also do metal ones that are slightly cheaper depending on quantity, this one with a 2 sided print was sold for $120 for a 50 piece order
  10. Vutek printer & EFI stretchable inks

    Whatever you do, stay away from Polymeric. We switched back to them after Nazdar stopped making a flexible ink after EFI bought the patent on the Flexform ink a few years ago in our Jeti 1224. We have lost 5 heads with the exact same issue since switching back to Polymeric where the ink is...
  11. laser engrave plastoc

    For larger parts that do not fit our 32x18 laser bed, we use Welcome to Laser Excel, LLC! - Laser Excel, LLC
  12. Jeti 1224 Color Shift

    Gandinnovations 1224 Spectra SE Heads Just re-profiled the machine 4 weeks ago as we had a color shift (everything heavy on the Cyan). Made 3 profiles, 300x600/400x800/600x1200. Print Department went to do a job this week and everything went heavy with Magenta. Emptied the tanks to make sure...
  13. Compatable Ink that works in Ricoh Gen 4 heads that will adhere to Acrylic

    Good Evening, Curious if anyone has any knowledge of any particular digital ink that will work in a Ricoh Gen 4 heads? The current ink we are using will not adhere to the acrylic without requiring an additional pass of UV (cure setting almost maxed out). The white that we are using adheres...
  14. Jeti parts from Agfa Guess how much..

    Get parts via Honle, I needed two reflectors, and a shutter profile for out 1224 and AGFA quoted us $2700. Bought the parts via Honle for $811. Took 3 weeks to receive, so we limped along for that time with a warped shutter profile. The set of reflectors from Honle were $616, and the shutter...
  15. Lamps Shutting off

    I have a 1224, try replacing the UV bulb. We purchase ours through Western Quartz in California. I had a similar issue and normally if the K9 relay, and the filters are clean, check out the bulb itself. A few months back we had the shutter profile and reflectors go bad in one of the curing...
  16. newbie, flatbed maintenance question

    Get some Nazdar 7470 ink for your Gandi, works great! We've gone through 20 heads in 4 years, but most of those were do to Polymeric ink :banghead:. Since switching to Nazdar its been smooth sailing! We also swap out head if 3-5 nozzles are not firing cause we are doing high end POP.
  17. Pimp My Jeti - let there be light!

    I'm not following your statement?
  18. Pimp My Jeti - let there be light!

    Does anyone have the tech's new phone numbers? Either Gandinnovations doesn't want to serve us anymore, or they are in some serious trouble. All tech numbers I have no longer work.
  19. Flatbed Printers

    What settings do you use for the glossier look? Colin told us to use 55L-5T or 50L-0T to make our prints glossier. Although this didn't do well for us. We just run the material on our Jeti, down our 200 watt shuttle lamp, and it glosses it right up! The only thing is you have to rack the...
  20. Flatbed Printers

    How many passes your running to achieve 6 minute 4x8? Are you running at 2000mm/s? We tried to run a job, 400x800, 12pass, 1700mm/s and it was taking around 13minutes for a 4x8 sheet. We also have the 30pl heads. This might be alittle off subject, but anyone else with a 1224 having ink...
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