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Hi all, If anybody noticed my other post, this is another off-the-wall question. If anybody knows anything about powdercoating... is there such a thing as SELECTIVE powdercoating? I.E. only powdercoat certain areas? And is there such a thing as reflective powdercoat? Thanks for humoring me, Jon

Hi all, Just wondering if there is such a thing as reflective INKS? You know, like you stick the cartridge in the printer, and it spits reflective ink out of the printhead onto whatever substrate you are printing to? Am I in la-la land? Jon

Does anyone have any experience with printing on both sides of material? I've been able to find a printer that does it - here: Premium Synchro Double Side Printer-Solvent Printer But don't know anything more about it. Hoping someone could share some stories? Looking to print on both sides of...

Hi all, Just wondering what other printshops/prepress operations use for time keeping? We do it the old fashioned way here - on paper, with a pen - but wondering if there is any really nice (and EASY to use) software out there that is made for doing this kind of thing? All we track is the...

Okay all you fellow HP z6100 users! I am getting these lines... I can't get rid of them. They seem to only go through the black... but they affect the edges where the blacks go into other colors. It seems to happen after printing for a little while - it is especially painful now because I am...

Has anyone ever seen any type of third party item that will allow my inkjet printer to accommodate rolls larger than what they can actually take? For example, I'd like to put a roll of paper on there that is 150 pounds in weight. I am picturing some kind of stand that sits somewhere...

I need someone who can do the following job for me: Roughly 8" x 36" Reflective vinyl sheeting (engineer grade) (Oracal, 3M, whatever brand is okay at this point) Bus logo printed at top, 7" x 7", one color - blue. Two words printed in middle, roughly 3" x 20", two colors - blue (same as bus)...

Simple question - my two M-Y printheads are not aligning with each other. I ran multiple printhead alignments, and got no better results. I switched them, and they switched... in other words, the #1 head was out of whack here, I switched them, and then the #2 head was out of whack. What...

After you run a printhead alignment, it prints out a chart - lots of lines for each color, etc... How do you read this? This is much different than off the 5500, and I'm wondering if there is any kind of guide out there to reading this? Or is it even meant to be read? Is it just something...

Every once in a while, I will start to see faint lines building up and getting worse. They are going left/right across the paper, in the same direction that the carriage runs... so I can only assume that it's a printhead problem. I clean them, run an alignment, and it fixes it temporarily, but...

Has anyone ever seen this? I am running the latest version of Onyx, to an HP Z6100. It will do this at the beginning of a print, and then go away. If I add white space to the file, it solves the problem. Anyone? Thanks, Jon

We back up everything to DVD... I have about 15 4" binders full of CDs and DVDs... It's getting quite cumbersome... they don't sit right on the shelf, looks a mess... etc.... I wanted to look into getting a drawer type system where I can just put the DVDs in a paper sleeve and file it away in...

So I got CS4, and was quite impressed with the improved speed of Bridge.... Then I discovered that they took away the contact sheet thingy (not to get technical)... I always used to make contact sheets through Photoshop, out of Bridge.... why would they get rid of that?!?!?! ARGH!!!!

I have an Illustrator file that is a simple file - two colors, both CMYK builds, and outlined text. I am saving direct to PDF from Illustrator, in Acrobat 8 format. When I take it over to my RIP, it crashes. There are a couple curious things about this file. One, I think I have it narrowed...

Just wanted to brag a little.... I finally switched my department over from printing everything to a PS file then distilling to an Acrobat 4 v1.3 PDF..... FLAT FLAT FLAT..... now we are FINALLY exporting direct out of all the desktop publishing apps straight to an Acrobat 8 v1.7 PDF.... yay...

I didn't know where to stick this post, so I just stuck it here... Does anyone have any rule of thumbs on letter height and viewing distance? Not for people driving by, or anything like that... but just for someone standing there. I usually use 1" for capital letters, for every 10 feet...

I am printing to an HP Z6100. I will be printing full coverage panels, quite nicely, for about 45-60 minutes, then all of a sudden the ink starts banding and if you look closely at small letters and lines, the ink is actually fizzing out and bleeding... I attached a few images to show what is...

Hello, I have two DXF files that I cannot open. I have tried to open them in Graphix Advantage, Illustrator, etc... and I can't get anything to open them. They were exported out of an older version of TurboFloorplan... Can anyone try them out to see if they can get something? If I can get a...

I am looking for an inkjet printable (HP 5500 or Z6100) reflective vinyl (engineer grade is fine).... Does anyone know where I can find this, or if this material even exists? Thanks, Jon

Quick question.... if I'm through the entire profiling process, and I like the results, but it's laying down too much ink overall.... can I just go into the initial ink limits and knock them all back 10% or so? Will that give me the same results (or roughly there) with just less ink? This is...