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Heaters on or off ?
How doe’s everyone else set their heaters. We’ve tried with them on at the printer and also off at the printer so the rip turns them on.
If they are set On at the printer when we send a job from the rip we have to wait for the heaters to reach temperature before we send the job or else we
get the error message "Timed out waiting for heaters" and when it starts it distorts the print and we have to start again.
If we have the heaters off on the printer then you can send the job and walk away and the rip turns the heaters on. But if you’re doing lots of small jobs then the heaters have to start up each time and this takes longer. -
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on our JV3 we used to get a firewire timeout… i managed to hack it with some help from jv3 usergroups… my timeout last a good few hours now so heaters warm up without RIP failing.
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I Can’t help thinking that with heaters on at the machine that it’s a bit of a waste of electricity as quite often I load the vinyl and this causes the heaters to start warming then get interrupted by the phone or a customer and it could be twenty minutes before getting back to the job. and also when you load the vinyl for cutting after laminating it starts up the heaters and as you cut part of the material is warm and half is cold.
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i haven’t heard of this what printer and rip is involved.
chris
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something you get used to tho…. when the jv3 finishes the heaters remain on, its a bit of a shame really.
although we have a clean print room just a bit bigger then the printer with all the print materials in there… but the heaters help keep the room warm, so doesn’t bother me as you got to store the materials warmish.
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Chris we run a 54" cadet put back to EcoMax inks. With the Wasatch rip.
You can switch the heaters on at the machine or with the rip. -
must be something on newer machines my soljet colourrip combination will print or cut with the heaters off.
untill you find a real solution you could increase the go to sleep mode time default is only around 15 mins i set mine to about 45 min for the reasons you give
chris
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quote Chris Wool:must be something on newer machines my soljet colourrip combination will print or cut with the heaters off.untill you find a real solution you could increase the go to sleep mode time default is only around 15 mins i set mine to about 45 min for the reasons you give
chris
same here. I have my heaters go to ‘sleep’ sitting on 27deg if I’m away from the printer for a while. When you press the buttons for it to start again, only takes a few minutes to get back up to full heat again.
Turning the heaters off, then back on when you need them is an expensive option I’d have thought. Takes more power to start reheating from cold, than if it was already warm? Just my thought anyway.
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Ours stay on all the time.
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I just leave my Cadet heaters on, that way their up to heat when you print, just think ahead a bit better and get your jobs ready before loading the vinyl, it only takes a few minutes for them to heat up, get all your printing done and then it can shut down again.
I also turn them off for cutting the print/lam/cut jobs.Chris the Cadet can have the heaters controlled from the rip or the control panel, that allows the print profiles to set the heat for the vinyl, I just leave mine on printer control panel though.
Steve
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quote :I just leave mine on printer control panel though.
Steve
i think thats his problem it i cant remember what its under though in the menu i know mine is printer control not rip control. probably cure the other chaps fault as well
chris
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I leave the heaters on. They’re supposed to open pores in the vinyl to let the ink settle better. (Or so i’m told)
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quote KARL WILLIAMS:I leave the heaters on. They’re supposed to open pores in the vinyl to let the ink settle better. (Or so i’m told)
I’ve got a bridge in London I can sell you Karl :lol1:
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quote :I’ve got a bridge in London I can sell you Karl
CLASSIC 😀
sorry karl
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I take that is incorrect then! (!)
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