print quality

Our shop is looking to upgrade our Oce Arizona 480 and I'm debating between the HP Latex R1000 vs Vanguard vk300d. We are not a production shop. We care about being able to hit Pantone colors as best as possible and no banding. Does anyone have experience with both of these machines?

We moved our HP 750 printer to a new warehouse. We did our best to level the printer when setting the printer up at it's new spot. I am getting pretty bad print quality. It looks like printheads 1, 2, 3, and 12 are the worst out of the bunch. What I have tried - Auto and Manual BiDi...

Hello All ive been running my business a for a few years printing posters/stickers and car graphics. I am currently branching out into PVC banners, I did a test print and found the print looks bit washed out compared to standard vinyl and poster paper. can you give any advice on spec switches...

We moved warehouses and unfortunately our HP FB750 was left unused and unplugged for ~1.5 months until we could set up the printer at it's new location. Have the printer up and running but getting horrible print quality. Currently I have done the following - Cleaned several parts of the printer...

Title is my issue... I replaced the Magenta-Yellow print heads in my HP DesignJet z6810 on Tuesday, and it seems like since then, when I print anything from our normal Onyx RIP, no settings having been changed, the front 1" or so will be a lighter color than the rest of the print. In darker...

We are new to the latex 365 and I have some questions about which number of passes to use. I would like to hear from operators that are running the wide format. The default profiles give you normally 3 choices, 4pass, 6pass, 10pass. What does that mean? Does the 10pass put 2.5 times the amount...

We have been noticing a vertical banding on our printing lately on our HP FB500. Specifically on large darker colored sections. (see attached photos) We have tried re-leveling the printer (at the advice of an HP tech) we have tried checking the belt fans and cleaning the belt thinking its not...

I have a Roland SJ-540 and I purchased a DX4 printhead cleaning tool to try and recover my printhead. I have tried almost everything else first. Head soaks, damper replacement, cap top replacement, cartridge flush, deep cleaning cycles. I know I will have to eventually purchase new heads, but...

Hello, I am having troubles printing on General Formulations 212. I don't see this happening in any of my other vinyls I print on using the same printer. I have created my own profile in Caldera and have tried some other generic vinyl printing profiles but with no luck. The cracking is most...

Hi there, i have a difficult job that drives me crazy :-). Have to print big gray squares with some white parts, but after printing about 1m, the printer starts to print the gray surface uneven. I made some tests with prints and found out, that a clean CYAN-Square ist printed uneven too. Ist...

Mutoh 1624. Been having a sporadic problem with the large fields of color (solid or gradient) coming out with slightly different tones from panel to panel. Looking at it close you can see the print pattern very tight and clean on a panel and the next will have a very grainy look to it causing...

Hi all, I have inherited a UJV160 which I mainly use for Corflute signs and it does a reasonable job. Except when printing red and red mix colours. Then I get noticeable banding in the print image. I assume this is due to the red head given the test print looks like this: How would this...

I've been having issues with banding on my Scitex FB700. Being under warrantee, HP continued to send a tech out to replace parts to troubleshoot the problem over the last few weeks. He's now been here several times and has replaced every moving part in the machine (motors, wheels, bearings...

Hello Forum, Long time reader, first time poster. I have 2 Mimaki printers that were purchased almost 18 months apart. The print quality between the two is very close. However, the wear and tear of usage on the first printer is causing the quality to deteriorate and differentiate from the newer...

Print head test: Pressing the test print button on the machine: Our colour test sent from rip (Roland ColorChoice) You can see on the black that the yellow is creating a halo effect. I was just wondering why it was doing this. And I was also wondering why the colours are more vibrant...

We're trying to print on Orajet 3651 clear, laminate and put on translucent acrylic for backlit sign face. Caldera rip. Tried 3651 profile, then 24 pass, then orajet 3850 profile, then 24 pass. We just have no way to double ink like on our old Mamiki. We've had the 26500 about 3 months. What...

I am very excited, after two and a half months without any help from Roland I got this old Sc500 to print like a new Mutoh (almost) photo quality. I was thinking I had made a giant mistake but this printer is doing well. Alot of my success is do to everyone on signs 101. I have read and read and...

Hi. I've been searching around here for a few days looking for some help on the existing threads to no avail. A few days ago the tower that runs our Mimaki (JV33-160) totally crashed on us. We just got a new one in yesterday and I've reinstalled our RasterLink Pro III software. My problem is...

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I'm printing a 48x36 image and as the print heads move toward the far edge, the printing drops off. Has anyone encountered this problem before? I've included a photo to show what is happening. Can't figure this one out. Very weird! I'm printing with a Roland CJ-500 with eco-sol max ink plus...