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  1. Roland VP540 clunk

    Is it normal to hear a slight clunk every time the print head carriage goes to the far right when printing? Everything seems to be ok just wondering?
  2. Need Help Waste Ink Tank Not Emptying Despite Flash Errors

    Mornin'! So all this week, our Anapurna 2450fb has been flashing errors at me that the waste ink tank is full. Every day this week, I've tried to empty it to no avail. I know I'm in the correct spot. I open the valve with a container under it ready to catch the flow and nothing is coming out...
  3. Question Paper material for covering bed of new flatbed printer?

    Hi guys, new to the printing world here. We finally brought our printing in house and we are off and running lol. Earlier this year during my research into printers, i had someone tell me they use a thin paper product that they cover their printing bed with. The material still allows the...
  4. Need Help Switching from HP Latex 360 to Epson S80600??

    90% of the products that we print at our company are small vehicle stickers that we ship out all over the place. We've had some struggle with the HP Latex 360 having good up-close clarity and also some struggles with printing light greys and such. There is an issue because of the limited LM...
  5. Printing wholesaler

    Does anyone on here offer wholesale printing (I am looking for one on one,not some huge online business). So far I haven't found anyone good. Its all intermediate and high performance printed vinyl I need printed with contour cut. Pretty simple. I hate jumping around from this person to the...
  6. Question Need help im new to UV Printing and i need some Tips!

    Hi there, I just find out about this site and sorry for my English by the way, Just bought a mimaki UJF-3042HG with kebab option and im having trouble printing wine bottles, I dont know what profile to use, when i print color dosen't stay in media. im printing in glass bottles. If any one...
  7. CJV150-130 printing on reflective

    Can someone who owns one of these machines tell me what profile or settings they use to print on reflective vinyl. As of now it seems they still don't have a profile for this. I've try a lot of settings but it's still printing like **** on it. Any help is appreciated. FYI I'm using Rasterlink 6...
  8. Advertising on your signs

    I am wondering if any of you include your business on the face of your signs? I include my company name/contact on the back of all banners, but wondering about adding it to the face. I am doing a few sidewalk signs for a customer and was thinking about adding my company name to the bottom...
  9. Oversize tattoo film?

    Hey all, I have a client looking for large temporary tattoos, none of this 8.5x11 stuff. A few materials crossed my mind, but I haven't been able to track down anything specific, so I figured I'd reach out. Would hydrophobic transfer material work? (The stuff they use in the water printing for...
  10. What is best wave pattern and dpi to use to recover non-firing jets?

    When printing a large, solid-color block in an attempt to recover missing jets, what is the best wave pattern (if any) and dpi (540X720, 720X720, 1440X1440) to use? And, should you use CMYK and "no color correction" so that only that color ink is printing? I have a 1204. And, has this method...
  11. printing RED on reflective

    anybody out there been able to print on reflective and match the Ruby Red reflective color? I am printing out of Versaworks on a Roland XR640 designing in Illustrator. I am sure there is some profile setting (to embed or not to embed?) that would make it work... I am needing to print some...
  12. Large high resolution graphics for signs

    Looking for a good source for high resolution high DPI large image size background for 4x8 signs. For instance needing a very high resolution image to use as a background that is a galaxy design. I have some 96 dpi files that are around 3840x2160 and a couple 96dpi at 6144x4608 but doesn't...
  13. Magenta dries very slowly

    Hello I have Mutoh 1324 The magenta ink dries very slowly. Until it reaches the material on role has not dried to result sticks and spoils the printing. Only with magenta I have this problem. My heats are very good and I'm printing 10m/h with 6 passes. If I try on 4 passes and 15m/h the...
  14. printing decals

    so I've been printing for a while and have recently been asked on a weekly basis for decals from local businesses ive been turning them away just because ive never known how to price these and as much as i get asked i think it could be a good source of income. basically everyone is wanting 100...
  15. Looking for a partner to help with plotting vinyl

    Hello, We are in need of a partner who can print and plot for us time to time. Thank you, JW Displays
  16. Prism Jet 64" Printer For Sale For Parts only

    Forgive me if posting this in the wrong area. Its been a while since I have been here. I mostly do screen printing now. Anyway I have the above printer for sale for parts. It is highly possible that this thing could actually be restored to printing again if someone knows what they are doing. I...
  17. No Magenta Ink Printing

    Hey guys. Recently my printer ran out of magenta ink. Normally the machine stops and tells me to change the cart but this time I guess it didn't. My fault there. However, once I changed to a new bag I still have no magenta printing. Several cleanings and an "initial charge", I still have nothing...
  18. Printing/Wrapping with CLEAR

    So we've undertaken a project for the local Dairy Queen where they want to print the logo LARGE for the side of a crew cab F250. The truck is metallic dark gray, and they want the colors to be pretty muted, and show the metallic gray through the color...kind of a faded effect. We have tried...
  19. VS 640 stops printing

    I have a VS-640 and after printing for a few minutes into a job it just stops printing. It doesn't beep or anything, it just stops. The LCD display on the printer says "NOW PROCESSING" and Versaworks shows "printing" as the status. After sitting for 10 minutes or so, it beeps and show "INTERNAL...
  20. Need Help New printer is not printing the same colors as old

    Hi, Just bought a vj 1624x, was using a 1614, when we bought it they also updated us to fexi 12. now all of my prints on canvas are printing a lot more blue and green. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks
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