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  1. Using Freehand with Versa works

    Thanks mate, got it working but having lots of fun redoing all the colours as the old SP300 produces a different shade to the VS540I even when using the same cmyk values. Nice printer though, I really needed silver and white as 90 percent of my jobs are small motorcycle decals. Just got to be...
  2. Using Freehand with Versa works

    OK, Think I found an answer, there is a check box in the file section of versa works that allows it to process spot colors, this was not ticked, cant imagine why you have the option but sounds like what I need to tick, Haven't tried it yet but think that will fix it
  3. Using Freehand with Versa works

    Not sure whats up, But I got the spot color names from the metallic color chart within versa works, checked and re-checked the naming convention but cant get it to work. When I created the spot colours just used freehand and created a new spot color with zero CMYK and called it RVW-MT-Gold...
  4. Using Freehand with Versa works

    OK, Got the sliver and white printing fine, but having huge problems getting anything for the metallic color chart to print. For example, made a spot color, same format as RDG_White but this time typed in RVW-MT-Gold and nothing prints out, tried every color on the metallic chart but nothing...
  5. Using Freehand with Versa works

    OK, Many thanks signmeup, that worked brilliantly, made a spot colour with zero, cmyk, called it RDG_MetallicSilver and worked a treat. I have printed out the colour chart but just have to work out if there is a naming convention to print these, I did try to print one colour off the metallic...
  6. Using Freehand with Versa works

    OK, Many thanks signmeup, that worked brilliantly, made a spot colour with zero, cmyk, called it RDG_MetallicSilver and worked a treat. I have printed out the colour chart but just have to work out if there is a naming convention to print these, I did try to print one colour off the metallic...
  7. Using Freehand with Versa works

    OK, Many thanks signmeup, that worked brilliantly, made a spot colour with zero, cmyk, called it RDG_MetallicSilver and worked a treat. I have printed out the colour chart but just have to work out if there is a naming convention to print these, I did try to print one colour off the metallic...
  8. Using Freehand with Versa works

    OK, I was told to use 877C from the pantone metalic swatches but can't seem to get that to work, So do you mean to make a spot color and call it RDG_MetallicSilver and versa works will interpret that as pure silver ??
  9. Using Freehand with Versa works

    Hi All Just updated my Roland SP300 to a VS540I, mainly because I need to print silver decals. or decals with silver content. Have been using Freehand for over 10 years now and know it well. In the past was exporting .eps files to the sp300 and printing them out nicely. Now though I cant...
  10. Subs silver cart for black in SP300

    Does this sound feasible. I have some decals to print that require silver components. In the past I have just printed on plain vinyl and cut silver bits from seperate media and slipped them in and then clear laminated over the top. It works but its time consuming and prone to misalignment. I...
  11. SP300 out of Cyan and wont go into setup

    Hey, thanks Bobby, you're a bloody legend, that worked like a charm!!!!
  12. SP300 out of Cyan and wont go into setup

    I just ran out of Cyan ink in my SP300, usually keep a spare cart but changing over to Bordeaux inks soon so haven't a spare. No shops open here til 7th of Jan. Aaaargh, I just need to do some cutting but it seems since I set ink control to "cont" the machine refuses to start up and just sits...
  13. Is this possible ??

    A potential customer called me the other day and asked if I could cut out some bumper stickers for him. It seems he has received a shipment of bumper stickers that have not been cut out. I proceeded to tell him I could easily make him some new stickers and cut them out on my SP300 but he...
  14. Yellow printing magenta

    How often do you have a problem and then find exactly the answer you are looking for. Probably not often but this is exactly what my SP300 is doing. So it seems I need a new capping station, Cap tops??. Question is, does this get replaced in a normal 6 month service?? My machine is about due...
  15. Cutting issues with sp300

    Hi Guys Thanks for your thoughts, I did try dropping the blade down lower but didn't seem to make much difference, however will try it again and see if it helps. Will check the bearing thing too. Many thanks
  16. Cutting issues with sp300

    My SP 300 has been giving me hours of grief lately with poor cuts. Sometimes it works OK and other times it is almost impossible to weed out the vinyl. It just doesn't cut deep enough, I have replaced the blade several times but just doesn't seem to help. Have upped the cutting pressure but for...
  17. Keep getting font substitution in colorip

    Hi all This problem is slowly driving me crazy. I have an SP300 running colorip, a while back I had to re-install colorip on my laptop (xp) after a crash. Ever since then I keep getting a font substitution notice when I am printing decals that have text in them. I have been getting around this...
  18. Hey, what happened to my printer properties

    Thanks guys, will give both your suggestions a try Cheers
  19. Hey, what happened to my printer properties

    Please help, I previously had a setting in print properties (colorip-SP300) that allowed a pause between printing, it was a value of seconds you could set. It caused the print head to pause. I found it useful when printing out decals with dark colours. It allowed the ink to set a little and...
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