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  1. For Sale HP Scitex 500 UV flatbed

    Looking to sell my fb500. It comes with production house, the roll to roll attachment, the 4 media tables shown in the pics (2 small connected to the printer and the 2 large folded up) and an extra set of print heads. This machine is still up and running as we still use it here and there just...
  2. For Sale Summa S2 t140 - parts or repair

    54" model. As is parts machine or fix it! Needs new motherboard and possibly carriage axis motor. It was getting a lot of carriage axis faults for a few weeks and then one day the motherboard started smoking and wouldn't boot but before that it was a reliable beast. Pick up only. Located in So...
  3. Advice for billboard style sign materials

    Hi all! We are making a couple 120" x 72" signs for an apartment complex to go onto their existing wooden frame. pic attached. We already submitted the artwork/estimate and got approvals but now apparently we can't get 4x10 sheets of the Lusterboard we quoted for. After being turned down by...
  4. Summa FB1612 material advance leaves gaps

    HI! I am hoping somebody knows whats going on here. Wherever the media advances, it skips about 2" of cutting as shown in the pic. It doesnt just advance too far and start where it left off - it actually skips those 2 inches. Letter shown should say ORSI and I marked in blue where the...
  5. What happened here? Bubbling

    Need help identifying this issue. We make a lot of these backlit sign faces and this hasn't happened before. Contractor customer has not returned the face he only sent me pictures so far. Could it be faulty roll of vinyl? Caused by the current heat wave we are having in California? Can the...
  6. Summa FB1612 Tangential Module parts

    Hi, I am looking for this part on the tangential module. Its on the up/down axis. Thanks!
  7. Font Help please

    what is this ugly font? thanks in advance!
  8. Wanted WANTED: Sign Production Associate FULL-TIME POSITION

    Small 4 person sign shop in Southern California looking to fill a full time sign production position. M-F 8:30-5:00. Ideal candidate would need to know Windows based computers, be able to run a cold press laminator, weed/apply vinyl, and use power tools. Big plus if you know CorelDraw...
  9. Blurry Raster in Wasatch

    We've been having this very odd problem lately with our HP Latex 360 printing raster incorrectly. It looks as if the media advance is slipping and the prints come out blurry and misaligned. Through trouble shooting we have isolated the issue to these 2 things: print file (eps, pdf, doesn't...
  10. Font Help A little help please...

    Doing work for his gas station and this is the best the guy could give me :eek:. Could I get help with both fonts from the masters please? TIA
  11. Font ID needed

    Blurry picture of a computer screen and this is the best my customer could supply me with. TIA!
  12. Font ID Please

    Thanks in Advance!
  13. HP Scitex 500 - removing white option

    I want to remove the white ink option from my Scitex 500. I just don't use it much and the automatic cleaning cycle is wasting more ink than I print per ink box. I am very handy and tech-y. I do all the maintenance on my solvent and latex printers. Wondering if anybody has done this...
  14. Summa F1612 blade 500-9807

    Wondering if anybody has a good place for cheaper blades. The Summa Heavy-duty 500-9807 is $50 for a little piece of metal.
  15. UV ink issue in DX5 printhead

    Hi all. I flushed my lines and added new Nazdar 710 series UV inks to my UV printer in 2 of the lines (magenta and white) to test out. Now those nozzles are completely clogged. Has anybody else had this issue? I see Nazdar has 260 series UV inks that are designed for the DX5 printheads but...
  16. Need Help HP Scitex error: encoder strip

    Hi all, Scitex was printing fine until at the very end of print (48" wide) the carriage hit the ACM substrate on the corner at the service end due to table being bumped at back end and substrate shift. Now it will not print. I keep getting error to clean or replace encoder strip. I inspected...
  17. Compress iUV-1200s flatbed printer problem

    Does anybody have experience with this machine? I did a manual printhead flush with flushing solution to clear some nozzles. Afterward yellow refused to print. I though I might have gotten some air in the line so I flushed the line too and refilled with ink. Still nothing. I changed the...
  18. Need Help Summa F1612 Conveyor Belt Depth Mapping?

    Hi everybody! I recall there being something in the software for the summa flatbed that maps out the variances in depth on the cutting area to give a better cut but I cant seem to find it. It migth've been on another machine, but I figured I'd ask here because I'm not finding it it myself...
  19. Wasatch 7.2 big gap between print queue jobs

    Hi guys I am running Wasatch 7.2 for an HP Latex 360 and my print queue has a big pause between jobs. Does anybody know how to eliminate this gap or at least cut it down some? I used to run Wasatch 6.5 with an HP L25500 on the same computer and it always printed back to back with almost no...
  20. Help wtih HP Latex 360 + Wasatch

    Hi we just got an HP Latex 360 and are using Wasatch. When printing using the correct substrate and profile I am getting muddy greens. It seems as though it is mixing in magenta through the RIP even though the CMYK value has none. I am using 3M IJ35C-10. If I print using an Orafol profile...
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