John.Taggart
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Hi Rob
Thanks. This is short term under a month. Already purchase from Grafityp just looking to see if anyone has a cheaper supplier as it is really short term.
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Thanks Andy
John
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We’ve just wrapped recently a Range Rover Sport, RS500 and an Audi TT in the 3M. Got to say film was lovely to apply but as with all Matt films they do mark easily if your not careful.
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Thats great Ian.
Thank you very much for that.
John
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Hi Guys we had to strip and rewrap a Ford RS500 that came from the factory damaged. Our client used the Swisswax to detail it but he used an authorised applicator costing around £300 for the full day.
Some pics attached.
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Thanks all. We did have glass in our previous location but we’ve moved to a first floor office and cant get the glass in without spending lots of money. I might give the lino a try before buying the mats as I need three 8 x 4s.
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Hi David
Got those currently but we seem to picking up a lot of crap when we go to laminate vinyl with the static. Also the grooves produced by the constant cutting is a pain.
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Hi Bill. That probably didn’t help but the reseller assured me it was plug and play. I’m now using the inks from Lyson. Half of the OEM costs and seem to be working fine. Ironically I had changed from Lyson to the bulk system because half of the chips wouldn’t read. However, they seem to have sorted that out now. Not had any misreads for the last 4 months. Happy days.
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Hi All
Binned the bulk system as the ink was clogging in the tubes and dampers. Piece of sh*t. Lesson learned there. lol
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Hey Stafford
We only did the roof and the rear section as he already had real carbon fibre on the doors and the front section of the car.
Took about 3 hours in total.
John
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Hey all we did a partial wrap on a GT3000 recently. Attached some pics. The 3M Di-Noc is a nice material and is pretty forgiving 🙂
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Hi Jill
Yeah not quite right. It’s a strange one.
John
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Cheers Rob
Didn’t notice the download option for the Toolbar. Really useful. Ta
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me too lol
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Hi Mark
I’ve got spares for my Mutoh 1604 here http://www.digiprint-supplies.com/ First class pricing and delivery usually next day mate.
Cheers
John
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Hi there
Don’t know if this helps. Just had 2 months of trying to sort a similar problem with my VJ1604. Tried changing encoder strips, cleaning the runner bar, carriage boards etc.
I’ve just replaced the Carriage encoder sensor on my machine and its sorted it out.
John
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We’ve ran OEM inks since we got the machine about 3 years ago. Been running Lyson Inks for about 4 months with no probs apart from the odd chip issue.
This is a complete pain in the @rse.
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Hi Jamie
Yeah, I’ve tried the heat set at maximum. Still the same.
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Hey Russell
What sort of cost mate?
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Hi Andrew
We used it for our old HP5500 which we’ve since moved on. We’re running our 2 Mutoh Valuejets onPosterprint which we got with the kit from Spandex. I agree that it would be better to run these from Wasatch but I think we need an unlocking code ro something to do so.
Cheers
John
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Thanks Ian
Yeah I think its locked for HP only.
I’ll give them a call.
Cheers
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Hi Ian
Maybe I’m being a bit dim here. Are you saying that I can use the Wasatch RIP even though its the HP edition to run the Mutoh buddy?
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Cheers guys
It’s totally random. I think it’s something to do with RGB to CMYK conversion. So much for print ready PDFs eh!! lol
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Thanks very much guys.
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Cheers Harry
Top o’ the morn to ya.
John
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Hi Ady
Doh!!
Font staring me in the face.
Cheers for that.
John
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Cheers Harry
Should be able to work with these.
Thanks very much.
John
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Cheers Peter
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Hi Dave
Pretty familiar with most rips.
Just looking to see if anyone has an extra one that they would like to move on.
cheers
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Hi Chris
Yeah your right, but looking for more control over colour, etc.
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Hi Matt
I’m running a Valuejet 1604 and got the same problem recently.
I can’t explain the freezing but when the sensor reads the media after restarting it has to be on unprinted media to get the width right. So you have to forward the media slightly to bypass the printed section where it stopped.
John
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Hi Stephen
Bit of a long shot but have you tried renaming the file and putting the suffix.jpg after it. I had a problem with a file recently which was displaying the same problem. This seemed to fix it.
John
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Hi Cheryl
Sounds more glamorous than what it really is I’m afraid.
The concept is fantastic though, because it involves printed vinyl, video, audio played through the glass or Gyproc and the ability to download to your phone via Bluetooth the demo playing in the video.
We’re doing 4 0r 5 installs hopefully in December in the States for this client, I hope. We’re definitely supplying the prints, but I’m hoping to land the install too. Will let you all know if it comes off.
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Unfortunately Gareth, it’s the client’s place. I’ve got to butter my hips to get about my place it’s that tight.
Yeah Lynn, Shane who? Got to say to all those girls who love this guy. After printing his picture at 8000mm by 4000mm, he’s not that pretty up close. Too many blackheads. I guess the Photoshop guy was off that day. HEHE.
This was actually the second time we’ve done this job. I’ve attached the first one for scale.
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Hi Arran
I’ve got a 1604 but I’ve not experienced this problem. I’ve used Banner from various suppliers and they all seem to run pretty well through the machine with no ink droplets.
I’m running the machine in a cold environment too so I don’t think that’s the problem.
Have you spoken to the engineer?
Hope you get it sorted.
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Hi there
I can fully recommend the Valuejet. Machine runs like a dream. I’m printing most of my jobs at the faster speed of about 15 square metres per hour and the quality is superb.
Please pass me the details of the ink supplier and I’ll certainly look at it.
Cheers
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Hi Petros, the forum can’t translate from my Greek text. So I’ll repaeat phonetically.
Yasoo Petros. Ti Kanis;
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Welcome.
I am currently living in glasgow, but my wife and I are moving shortly to Crete where we hope to offer some signage and digital printing once we learn more of the language.
How’s the weather in Cyprus?
John
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Hi Sean
I’ve got the Motoh Valuejet1604 which is the same kit as you’ve got, just badged differently.
Gotta say that I’m well chuffed with the quality. Seems to print on almost anything and not too fussy with profiles. I just adapt the ones supplied by Spandex for their own product. Which I don’t buy of course because it’s too expensive.
Biggest benefit is the lack of banding. I’m running banner at the fastest setting and solids are great.
John
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Many thanks Chris.
You.re a star.
John
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Hi Chris
thanks for the reply. Don’t have the font. Could someone please send me a quick vector of the text shown, pretty please.
Cheers
John 😀
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CHEERS GEORGE.
WORKED A TREAT.
JOHN
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Hi John
Many thanks. If it’s not too cheeky, can you do me CRYSTAL CANOPIES LTD. please.
Cheers mate.
John
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Hi Tim
I purchased the same set up recently. I’ve not used a file direct from Freehand yet, but I imagine that exporting the file as an EPS should incorporate any cutline that’s you’ve created.
John
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Hi Alan
Yes I agree with the issue of fading ink. If I can find a bulk ink solution that uses Mutoh Inks that would be great. What’s the chances though. The problem also with carts is that the ink percentage left in the cart display in the printer is never accurate.
Give you an example. Last week I was printing a 1.5 x 2.5metre print for a client who needed it next day. I also had to drop of some work to another client. So I set up the machine to print onto the take-up, checked the ink capacity which showed that all the carts where at 40% or more capacity. I left to come back and find that after printing around one linear metre that the magenta ink was out. pain in the @ss or what. I spoke to the engineer about it and he said that the carts are never accurate. So what’s the point in having a pecentage usage displayed?
Anyway, now that I’ve had my Monday morning rant I can go back to work feeling better. LOL.
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Cheers for the reply Alan.
Trying to weigh up all the options. Just spent a grand on inks this month to hold stock as the machine seems to eat ink and don’t want to be in a situation where I’m out of stock and let a client down. Especially when it’s a new company and trying to build business.
Looking at the potential costs over a year on buying OEM ink against bulk system, cheaper ink and possible engineer costs.
Seems to be little in the way of info as the Mutoh machine is relatively new in the Uk.
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Thanks Matt
I’ll give them a try on Monday. Fed up paying £48 per 220ml cart. 😮
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Hi Gavin
I’m using 320gsm Canvas Opus from Papergraphics. It comes in three sizes 914mm, 1372mm and 1524mm. I’m paying £125, £155 and £165 respectively. It has a varnished effect on it and it prints brilliantly on my Valuejet.
The best thing about it is that I’ve found it very difficult to scratch the surface. Handy especially if your finishing it in a tight area like mine.
Hope this helps.
John 😀
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Hi Chris
Yes your right about the first ink set filling the machine. In fact when the engineer installed the machine, it chucked the ink charging at around 96% and he had to redo it and totally used up all the initial ink supplied with the machine. He had to borrow a set from another client to finish the install.
I’ve only ran about around 20 to 30 linear metres of various material but only at the production setting. Had an issue where the magenta cartridge was showing an ink capacity of about 30% and totally emptied after one linear metre of vinyl had printed, albeit it was a solid colour which used 70% magenta in the colour make-up.
I’ll check with Spandex re: the warranty issue, but there’s nothing in the documentation and the engineer has said that there is an bulk option. Although knowing Spandex it’ll be expensive.
thanks
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Hi Marcella
Did you sort out a supplier for your posters? 😀
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DOH!
Cheers Steve. Sometimes the most simplest of answers are staring you in the face. :thanks2:
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Thanks guys
Pretty much along the lines of how I was thinking. Always good though to get your thoughts backed up by those with the experience.
Cheers
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Hi guys my Vjet1640 arrived today and hopefully will be installed and working next week. Will be happy to report feedback then. Anyone with any questions about deal negotiated with Spandex and service I’d be happy to help.
John
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Just looks well done and design is spot on. 😀
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Have you got both Brian? Just going out for a meeting.
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MCOP. Can’t seem to attach the Illustrator 10 versions. Hope this helps.
john
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Here you are Brian.
I’ve created 2 versions of each. One in Illustrator CS2 and Illustrator 10.
John
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Hi Karl
Never used Corel so can’t comment on the colour dulling issue. The only thing I can put forward as an explanation is maybe your screen calibration isn’t spot on so what you see on the screen isn’t necessary what you get on the print. I also know that in Photoshop some people work in RGB and then convert to CMYK on the RIP or in Photoshop which can put some of the colour out of gamut range which dulls sections of the image when printed.
John 😮
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Your right Alistair, Just new to the forum and don’t want to start P***ing anyone off. This is my experience of setting up print files and your right, if your up really close and pedantic you could spot the difference. But on a sign that will probably be up above head height the 25 % at 300dpi would be fine.
Cheers 😀
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Hi Alistair
I usually send this size for anything from a banner to a vehicle wrap and you really can’t tell the difference between a print that’s been done at actual size, which takes forever to work on and RIP and one at quarter size.
Don’t let the fact that I’m a new member fool you into thinking that I have no experience in setting up files for digital artwork (over 10 years). I can’t explain the the technicalities as to how it works, but Photoshop EPS files printing at 25% at 300dpi scaled up on the rip, look pretty much the same as 300dpi at actual size when they’re printed.
Not trying to be confrontational, just now it works. 😀
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Hi Alistair
I would always work at 25% at 300 dpi this would give you a workable file size of around 74MB. Just make sure that if you bring any files in that they are at least 300dpi.
Cheers 😀
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Hi Angelique
I come from a design agency background and the best way that I get a client on board is to charge a nominal upfront retainer of around £250 and for that I would give around 4-6 studio hours to come up with maybe three different concept. After this if they agree work to either an hourly rate or a fixed fee that both sides are comfortable with. Every client has a diferent concept of what to pay for design. This way you’ll get paid for your initial time and also for additional time you spend.
Hope this helps. 😀
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Hi Karl
This is my first post on the forums, so Hi to all. A good system that I’ve used in the past to fix banner to wall is SpiritFlex you can find the supplier here http://www.spirit-displays.co.uk/uk_spiritflex.html.
It’s not the cheapest but ig gives a great flat finish for banner to a flat surface.
Hope this helps