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  1. Need Help Need Help with Laminator Purchase

    I got two seal’s and a royal sovereign and when i needed a fourth laminator last fall i tried to get a seal, but wasnt able to find a dealer here. So i bought a Kala Mistral 1650 instead. The Kala is good, but the Seals are sturdier, faster to thread, and easier to work with since it doesnt...
  2. Face Shields for Medical Staff

    We cut them on the Zund with a knife (not routing). Can do about 300 masks cut per hour with on and offloading. But its polycarbonate, not the thin PET stuff. We cloud probably produce alot faster with PET, but its a much more robust and better product with the polycarbonate.
  3. UV Printer & Prints Making us Sick

    Hey! Try putting more power on your UV curing lamps. If it's not possible to adjust the power, you can try printing with more passes and less ink for each pass. If that's not possible you can try adjusting profile to lay less ink. It will affect your colors but if it's a case of not being able...
  4. HP FB550 - Ink peeling at edges on ACM signs after only 1 year...

    Or try another brand of ACM, the coating are different and gives different results with the UV ink. We have direct printed ACM with polymeric laminate last 7-10 years outside. But we also had batches where the ink almost falls off by itself. Also make sure you use ACM with matte surface.
  5. Image resolution in prepress vs. rip

    Adobe Rip engine (Onyx Thrive and alike) as anti-aliasing/smoothing when enlarging images, to stop them from being pixelated. It's a setting. But you have more control over it if enlarging in photoshop, and you can see the result without printing it.
  6. Question What Printer would you stake your business on?

    Both replaced with one Swissq nyala 3 with double km1024i heads + white. Awesome machine for printer geeks :)
  7. Question What Printer would you stake your business on?

    What numbers are you seeing then? For me it averages about 0,96 ml/sqft on the latex 560 and 0,66 ml/sqft on the colorado (if i calculated correctly from metric) The latex number i got from the web accounting interface, and the colorado number from actual litres put into the machinhe divided by...
  8. Question What Printer would you stake your business on?

    Locked process? What RIP? I made my own profiles and calibrated first day. Seeing 30-40% lower ink usage than the latex.
  9. Flexi automatic cut

    Barcode server, in summa cutter tools!
  10. Shop Cleanliness

    For us having the humidifier is essential for having dust free lamination and such. We also vacum every day, our whole shop. We also have a speed gate (garage door that closes/opens really fast/automatic) between printer area and fabrication area. this helps, but still not perfect, by far.
  11. 360 and Onyx

    Same here, but for us it is enough to open the latex info screen/popup from onyx, and close it again, and the media updates after a few seconds. if that doesnt work, there should be a button to retriwvw media from printer on the popup/info screen, maybe try that
  12. Next gen latex.

    Latex flatbed was already released as a new generation, with white ink, lower temperature (?), and some other improvements that the 560 doesn't have. Also the 560 as the last generation of small roll to rolls is already a few years old, and it's expected that HP will follow up with a new...
  13. Question What Printer would you stake your business on?

    Ohh... now the dots are connecting .. now we know why the tech's doesnt have the time to fix 2ct's HP problems :p:p:p:D :blueboy:
  14. Question What Printer would you stake your business on?

    Yea, i wouldn't wrap with UV inks, even if they are stretchable. I believe SwissQ have one that even can stretch up to 500%, but its not made for wraps really. For the karibu it's good for textiles etc. But touch in with swissQ and they will answer, they are really serious and will provide...
  15. Question What Printer would you stake your business on?

    Well, i currently have hp latex, oce colorado and uv flatbed (oce arizona) The latex has been the workhorse for the last 3 yrs. Before that it was eco solvent. The eco-solvent was way to slow, but ran dor 5yrs without anservice visit The latex can handle a lot more throughput, and the no drying...
  16. Oce Colorado 1640 Brittle Media

    I print on SAV all day long...
  17. Oce Colorado 1640 Brittle Media

    Sprocket isnt for determining the advance, it is for the automatic feed. It’s still there, but i havent seen any marks in my media. Unsure if there is a new design or anything. colorado determines feed by printing and reading marks at the media side edges.
  18. Any Colorado 1650 Owners.

    I got both a HP latex 560 and a colorado 1650. so far the colorado are best at colors, speed, ink usage. No chipping of ink. Ink can be stretched 140-150 percent before cracking, both unlaminated and laminated. colorado uvgel has much better adhesion of the laminate on top of the ink than the...
  19. Oce Colorado 1640 Brittle Media

    I had some print tests on colorado 1650, Avery 2004 SAV. No bittleness as i could see, could stretch vinyl about 140-150% before the ink cracked. Quite good.
  20. Cyan banding Issue Arizona 550GT / Acuity HS

    I've got two 660 XT, they are both like this. It's normal, and can't be fixed - according to Oce/Canon. I've had tech's for days trying to adjust everything, but it doesn't improve sadly. My old 480xt without staggered heads wasn't like this.
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