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Hi everybody, I am puzzled. I use 54” inch material. When I send a full width image (54") to be printed, the printer creates a white (un-printed) margin of 30mm on the left hand side. As a result I cannot utilize full width of the material. I tried two different RIP programs with same results...

Hi everybody, I have been struggling for some time with a print to cut work flow which requires lamination. The problem is a weeding part. Even the shapes are cut out but they still partially hang to the vinyl to be removed and therefore when I lift the vinyl to be removed it lifts parts that...

I have been trying to print decals with solid black background, but I couldn't get rid of banding on black. I attached an image of print. It looks awful. I have done tons of cleaning and head soaking, with intention restoring those two missing nozzles, but I couldn't restore them. I am not sure...

Hi everybody, I am planning to offer banners to my clients and in this regard would help me If I knew what the most wanted types of banners are so I can stock up right material. Please can you tell me from your personal experience what would be 2 most sought after banner types from the list...

Hi everybody, I have issue with the printer, that the ink dries on the head and causes clogging. I did couple of tests, when I realized that auto cleaning function is set but it is not doing any cleaning which results in the problems I have been experiencing. I bought this printer second hand...

Hi everybody, I am new to this business and I appreciate any feedback. I got an offer to buy HP L25500 printer. I would like to know, considering that it is a used printer, what I should be looking out for and checking in terms of potential problems. Which parts are costly on this printer and...

Hi everybody, I was thinking of getting a spectrophotometer for my wide format printer and I understand that it suppose to support CMYK, but I'm not sure whether the support is done on software level or hardware level and therefore I don't know if any of those would be any good to be used for a...

Hi everybody, I was doing head wash by filling up the cartridges with the flush solution and removing chips from them, so printer detects them as cleaning cartridges. When I was finished with the cleaning, I installed the chips back, but only two cartridges are detected. One black and one cyan...

Hi everybody, I wanted to ask you about your opinion. I have been doing some nozzle cleaning, head wash and custody wash overnight for about a week and this is a test print I get. There has been some improvement on a cyan head, but not on the other print heads. I was thinking of filling all...

Hi everybody, I need to do a head wash to recover my heads from being clogged and I have no experience with it. I searched Mimaki forum and got bits and pieces, but I know that many contributions were written by experienced users and I don't know if there is anything missing there because...

Hi everybody, I bought a used Mimaki JV3-130 printer. When I try to fill up ink, lines with yellow and cyan fill up no problem, but no ink is being sucked from black and magenta cartridges. Both black and magenta are connected to the same pump and pump seems to be working fine. Could somebody...

I just purchased Mimaki JV3-130 printer, because I wanted to get hands on printing experience and learn the stuff. I already have cutter Graphtec FC7000-160. I need to create some pricing structure and obviously I do not have experience to do it, so I though that I would ask members of this...

Hi everybody, I bought used used Graphtec FC7000-160 cutter. It works general very well apart from two issues. One issue is that when I use a new roll of vinyl (50 feet) I get X axis error in a middle of cutting when cutter is trying to pull media. I understand that this is happening because...

Hi everybody, There is an opportunity for me to purchase Roland SP540V versacamm printer. I know this is just 4 ink printer, so I would like to know whether there is a much difference in the output 4 ink printer vs 6 ink. Also any comments regards that particular model are appreciated.

Hi everybody, I'm looking to get some cheap wide format printer for my shop. I don't have any right now and I'm looking into getting one. I found locally HP Designjet 5000 60" for $2250, Epson Stylus Pro 9880 44" for $1500 and HP design jet 5500PS 42" for $2250. Is any of these any good as a...

Hi, I don't have printing equipment neither experience, but I would like to know whether it is cheaper to print 3 color decal on vinyl and cut it out, or it is more economical to cut 3 color layers of the vinyl and lay them over each other to crate same decal. Is it size dependent, where let...

Hi everybody, Let me introduce myself quickly. I originally bought my Copam CP-2500 cutter to do my boat graphics, when I decided that this is a fun and I could use it for small side business to make vinyl decals for public. Recently I worked on a truck and trailer vinyl graphics for a...