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first day w/ VersaCamm
well I broke down and finally decided to get the versacamm after reading many posts on this board. It was installed today by the roland rep. over here and he is in the process of training me on it. Well so far i’m not to happy with it, it seems the print colors and quality are pretty bad. the Rep. said it had to do with the color profiles for the media(white semi gloss calender vinyl) and he spent most of the day messing with it, he is coming back tomorrow to work on it again. If anyone with a versacamm could help me I would greatly appreciate it. i’m using the roland color rip 2.0, i did try using flexi7.5 pro with no luck he stated the rip(on flexi) was not working properly 😥 oh well thanks for the help
Dan
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Tell the rep to use the high gloss vinyl profile (SPVC-G Sol Hi Gloss) , the rip version must be 2.0b and tell him to set ink limit (total percent) to about 170 and to use the color seperation rule and to limit the ink at black cut off to about 125% , those are pretty good starting points.
Out the box without any tweaking , you are unlikely to get perfect results, the media profiles are not that hot and a lot of them have been corrected. Try those settings on either grafitak with a blue backing or starrex (x-film) with a red backing , Im not sure of the stock no’s of those medias.
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Thanks for the help Rodney will give it a try.
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Try the top multifix profile on a polymeric. I have to agree that the profiles aren’t that great.
Turn the heaters up to 40 pre and 43 post for this and with a good polymeric you’ll get some really good results. You will maybe have to tweak the inkflow a little.
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Thanks for the help guys. I tried the settings rodney gave me and it did help alot, but I am noticeing that if i’m running 5 pictures in a row ( going down the width of the vinyl) the fist 3 or so show some pooling or something in the fine detailed areas and the last pictures look 100% better. As far as vinyl goes I tried to check here in the US for the graphtyp vinyl but they dont seem to dist. here. Has anyone used Avery, MaCtac, or orcal? and if so what profiles.
thanks I appreciate it,
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This my 2nd day of using the versacamm, so far I am very pleased with the machine.
Printing is superb, I think I can do better once I am getting familiar with the software. And I have to thank Rodney for many of his insightful posts.
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hi peter
thanks for the update mate.. glad to hear rodneys advice has been of help and that your machine is doing exactly what you want it too…
great stuff…i look forward to any further feedback you may have.. 😉
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