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We don't use that particular media but we've had issues with our 3M 180 & 480 failing lately due to incorrect installation - seems to be from not heating it down and/or stretching it too much. We don't have an in-house installer, instead we use a few different independent ones and have figured...

Is it getting stuck in the same place every time? Or does it vary? Our rail got scratched up at the service end by a tech who couldn't get the carriage on straight after he replaced a head, so there's a bit of a grindy feeling when moving the carriage past that spot. Otherwise I'm not sure, it...

It's an interesting study in psychology - I bet they would have gotten far fewer views had their signs been professionally printed. It's like viral underground marketing 3.0

More like Orangevale, California. We have our own special kind of redneck ;)

I remembered we had a delamination once on 180 with 8519 and we believe it was due to our laminator which was dying, you had to crank the tension so hard that we think the lam stretched at a different rate than the vinyl and then when it shrunk again it started pulling away.

Does whoever you buy your media from have a 3M rep you can talk to? I go directly to ours whenever I have an issue or question.

Yeah they’re old and hard to get service for. We’re stubborn so we are probably going to keep it until it dies catastrophically!

We never went to aftermarket ink, but we still have that machine so it’s good to know it worked for you. We had so many bad boxes of ink it was ridiculous, and it went on for I think a little over a year. So when the cyan heads started going bad at first I thought it was more bad ink. That was...

It’s in the ink menu under Maintenance. It’s an automated procedure where it empties the heads, the only thing you have to do is drain the waste ink before & after. I was told to do an empty & fill cycle three times after a bad batch of ink and that seemed to get it all out of the lines. I did...

Under Printing->Calibrations->Auto Calibrations

Can you map out the bad jets? We had both cyan heads go down a little while back probably because of bad ink but HP made it hard to prove… anyway if you have too many bad jets and need a new head good luck. Montroy still has a few techs that work on them if you end up needing service.

No, if it were my band and my sign I'd probably actually print it and have like a QR code or something ;)

So much for your fancy shmancy SEO, Google Adwords and Facebook marketing! If you really want to broaden your reach you need a handwritten sign with the name of your YouTube channel on the lawn outside the Taco Bell drive thru

We need service on our Roland VS640 and our provider is telling us they no longer service that machine because it’s at end of life. Does anybody know of a company in Northern California that services these anymore? We are located in Sacramento.

We have the 5500H, just got it about a month and a half ago. I'm the main operator and have already had to call service after running about seven 150' rolls through it.

I take down how many milliliters are in each cartridge before and after a variety of different jobs on different types of media, noting those with full coverage vs. a lot of white space. After you track it for a month or so you can use those numbers to figure out the average.

I’ve printed window perf on our HP 365 without having to use any special setup other than a generic window perf profile and the regular media loading procedure. Most window perfs have a solid liner that catches the excess ink and in combination with the correct profile you shouldn’t experience...

We don't run that particular media but I have received other defective rolls and it kind of sounds like the media may be the issue. Is the core deformed at all? That's usually the biggest culprit when our Roland has random head strikes on a particular media. Beyond just the core being deformed...