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The inks are made in europe and are of very good quality. The media is Orajet 3164. The head went crazy and misfired in test prints and during the printing.
Maybe I am asking for too much with such an old printer but it seems just not right and I feel it was better (smoother before)
Plus the...
Hi a Roland tech fixed my machine (Head Change - calibrated the machine an SC-500 converted) and I now have an odd situation which I hope experienced users can help with.
The prints look now very grainy and I can now print without heaters at all..
The Ink is almost immediately dry? What...
I tried all possibilities with the ribbon cables.. Strangely it said, when I swapped the ribbon cables on the board itself, in the display "Temperature too warm" - super strange..
I really worked and tried a lot before asking for help also here in the forum. The roland tech also couldn't find...
Thank you Bruce, i do need good luck.. this whole issue is sucking happiness and life force out of me, so much..
I did swap the lines and cappings of the right print head with the ones of the left print head and the same exact missprint occurs still on the left head now just with other colors...
I own a CJ-500 converted it to an SC-500 and he has been nothing but great so far. Now i experience a a really awkward situation.
During the print cyan started to fade out and banding appeared. Looking up the issue here on Signs 101 I came up that ink starvation most likely would be the...
You will need a photospectrometer like an X-rite Eye One and then Flexi will lead you through the process. Lot of printing, checking with a magnifying glass, more printing, more checking and tadaaaaa - after quite some time you got your profile..
Thanks so much for your replys. Versaworks unfortunately doesn't run the printers.
Flexi does an excellent Job and so does the printer this thing is just amazing if you don't care about time :)
Color Choice I received directly from Roland a couple of weeks ago. They were really friendly and...
Does anybody have experience with using the CJ-500 or SC-500 from Windows, Autocad or MS-Office Programs?
I just can't seem to make it work. I also have a print server with lpt ports if that would be of help..
Hi, I hope somebody can help me with this.
I own a CJ-500 same machine as a SC-500 and there is a major problem I'm having.
When cutting vinyl the machine pulls the material extremely crooked so the material sometimes even gets moved out of one of the pinchrolls.
I changed the pinchrolls...
I did some research and the people of Flexi told me that Flexi can't print silver on the Mimaki JV-2.
I wrote to Forum Member but unfortunately he didn't answer. Maybe somebody else can help me with some information.
What Software can I use? Somebody told me Photoprint. Or maybe just use the...
also, would you maybe know how to set up the file if i want e.g. to print blue metallic? The softwares I use are Photoshop, Illustrator. Then how would i use this file in Flexi 8.6?
Dear Artbot, thank you very much for your reply.
Let's see if I got this right.
One cartridge silver for printing and one cartridge with cleaning solution.
The silver cartridge is put in slot 1 where the ink line goes straight to the 3 (Single Color) Print Head.
After using the silver i...
Hi, I hope maybe someone may be able to help me with this.
After a lot of work and money I now got my Mimaki JV-2 up and running, created my own Profile with a Eye-One Photospectrometer and Flexi 8.6
I now would love to use the option the printer provides to use a seventh (Spot)Color...
Hi to everybody in this great forum,
this is my first post so I quickly introduce myself, my name is Andreas, 29 years old and I live in Berlin.
I also own now a Mimaki JV-2 converted to Eco-Solvent and put a lot of money and time ro fix it up.
Now like so many others i am in desperate need...
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