[Alan Brown]

Hi Gil,

Thank you for the reply.

The cutting manager is set to 100%, in fact the settings in flex are pretty much the defaults – some tiny 1mm borders and that’s it.

I’ve gone through about 10 meters of stock trying different settings to get this sorted and it’s getting quite annoying now! I can pretty much guess how much I need to scale my designs down by, but still, I like things to be precise!

Many thanks,
Alan

[Alan Brown]

I also spoke with James today regarding vinyl trade printing, very polite and very helpful. Thanks James!

[Alan Brown]

Sounds like a bit of a learning curve, I’ve not had to deal with printers bigger than standard office printers before, and I’ve never used a large format solvent printer before

However, I’ve worked IT support for a few years and I’m currently a software developer, so tinkering and figuring things out, I’d say I’m somewhat competent with.

The vinyl thing started as a bit of fun doing stickers for myself and friends cars, and it’s slowly grown into a decent eBay/Amazon business, which I’m obviously now looking to expand into printing.

Perhaps it would be better to outsource my work? Although I really would like to do everything myself, do you know what the going rate is to outsource say a 1 meter x 1 meter full colour print job?

Also one last question, sorry! I’ve read that these machines need to be left on and used pretty much constantly,because as far as I can gather, these machines leak ink through the heads constantly? Is that correct? So I wouldn’t be able to just plug it in and fire it up every few days or whenever it’s needed?

Cheers!
Alan

[Alan Brown]

It’s the TJ-1671C printer and cutter, I’ll see if I can find your post history and have a look

Alan

Quick Edit: Found your Youtube vids John, looks like you got yours from the same company I found, so that’s a good start! 🙂

[Alan Brown]

Thanks for the replies!

I’ve been researching the Chinese machine that I’m interested in, even found a few videos on Youtube…. cant understand what they are saying but the machine seems to be, well, fine.

It also has the Epson DX7 head, would I be allowed to link to the machine, or is that against the forums policy for new members to post links?

Cheers!