Dakotagrafx

thanks for posting the fix for others to look up in the future. if you sign up on the forum you don't have to wait for a mod to approve the post - it is free, no spam involved and become part of the community here supporting each other. glad you got it worked out!

good to know in the future - thanks for posting

Sounds a lot like you are still thinking in terms of raster graphics and not in the terms of vector graphics the plotter uses. Conversion programs don’t work well with vector graphics that require tracing to make them readable with arcs and nodes instead of pixels. Vinyl master is a solid choice, I had several ce5000’s and they work with many softwares made for plotters

Return it and buy from another dealer

How is the nozzle check after that?

no idea here but I would be skeptical that gel ink would work in an hp - heck not sure the epson ink would work because I think hp uses heat to burst the ink out of the head I read a long time ago and the reason that hp's aren't used for for sublimation. I know nothing for certain and didn't stay at a holiday inn express last night :/

nothing wrong with graphtec - sounds like a dealer issue and hope it is a legitimate dealer or warranty might not be in effect

No idea on that model but if it hasn’t been doing it’s cleaning every 4-6 hrs every day since Friday I would be worried about that head being clogged. If I remember right that particular head is around $2400.

Heck with that volume the sp540i

and keep it printing so you don't clog nozzles -

Buy a Roland sp300i , and laminate will be optional, if you decide to laminate get a daige cold laminate unit but for bumper stickers I wouldn’t even laminate using the Roland Orem inks. Then it is print and contour cut all at once

Not sure but gs is not the same as the gps as the gps is actually rebranded as flexi pro without the rip function and I know from experience the gsp prints great . Not sure who make the cheaper gs version

are you using graphtec studio or graphtec pro studio that serial number came with your plotter on a color piece of paper (yellow if I recall correctly) ?

Can’t wait to get back to Italy someday

I would contact SAI directly for support on this once I verified that production manager has not changed the action to hold - they have great support - I haven't used flexi rip in 10 years because I was using versaworks during that time

you can't bake off the ink - in my experience it has been better to trash the messed up one and move on with new.

The titan is the lowest priced plotterwith a true usb chipset and not emulated usb.

Is send all colors checked in production manager. Do the letters show in production manager prior to hitting cut?

just make sure it turns freely in both the top and in the blue part - the tenting is an issue and may have something to do with your problem as the vinyl isn't staying flat on the cut strip - any gap would cause it to not have clean cuts

great plotter and well worth getting a dedicated computer just for that plotter - I have owned several of them but not since I had windows 10. the above suggestions are right on point but just for kicks I would try the ce5000 drivers also as the ce series I have noticed work with the same drivers up until after the ce6000 series - in my experience - if that doesn't work a cheap older computer works great to solve the issue - congrats on the great acquisition

I am tending to believe the blade is not turning freely - I had one new one that had a cracked blue cap. also does the material tent up when moving forward and backward on your ce7000 ?

Charge per hour for your design work and 5hey tend to be more decisive quicker

weird - in your cutting software is the cut all colors selected? if you look at it in wireframe do the letters appear?

was this typed or did you trace it where those letters might be a slightly different shade of color and missed - or is there a slight mark on the vinyl?