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  3. Posted

    there is no way with a cricuit easy press ( essentially a big iron) to get a even heat nor even pressure over time on a transfer if you are thinking of selling you product - time, temp and pressure are all important when applying HTV for customers

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    if you really want to mess with it some more before you buy any parts to troubleshoot which part it is - you can take it apart and try reseating all the connections and ribbon cables, just to rule that out - but realistically if you start buying a new mainboard and display and that doesn't do it (or even if it does) you have put a lot of money into an OLD plotter that has served you well  - I have repaired and refurbed many plotters and just my 2 cents - it is time to put that old work horse out to pasture

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    5 hours ago, slice&dice said:

    Fried.  It happens, especially with the ungrounded MH. They are notorious for that.

    Grab the 34" SC2, it's around $600, shipped (provided with stand & media basket and good design/cutting software bundled).

    You can pay off that expense in one or two larger jobs, and these days you'll find plenty of sign work available everywhere.

    I just did these 4'x8' panels for a junk guy's trucks, over $800 job (2 trucks). My advice, put the old MH to the side, start fresh with the SC2, and don't worry about it. Life is too short, man.

    junk.jpg

    nice work slice

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    1 hour ago, dirtymonkee said:

    I’ve inched it less and less upped force but it either distorts or don’t cut.

    It weren’t this hard to set up when I didn't know what I was doing.

    with the pen doing a good job it comes down to either the vinyl moving within the pinch rollers because they are not applying enough pressure to hold the vinyl where it should be OR something not right with the blade or holder - 

  9. Posted

    not exactly sure what you are saying in your post - the printer doesn't deposit ink on the paper?  if so a printer problem - or the printed image won't transfer to the shirt?

    if the second I am not familiar enough with a cricuit press but doubt it would hit the 400 degrees necessary for sublimation ink to turn to gas.  second is the shirt needs to be 100 percent polyester, 50/50 shirts will transfer ink to the poly portion of the shirt and give a distressed look.  sublimation paper also has a right and wrong side - usually the right side is a slightly brighter white

  11. Posted

    2 thoughts - are you pre pressing to get the moisture out of the garment before applying your graphics?     are you buying the shirts from a wholesaler or a retail store - in the past we have had members report that shirts that are displayed in a retail setting are sometimes coated with a substance like starch to make them present better on the shelf.  just thoughts and far from the expert on this one

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    8 hours ago, dirtymonkee said:

    Admittedly I did see more marks In the vinyl then I am now so maybe they do need to be tighter but I have also tried this before. Will try again, my fifth day of trying to sort. I do appreciate all your help.

    If all else fails can someone point me in the direction of a decent cutter? Don’t need to be as big as the 721

    hoist that roll of vinyl up and put a new graphtec under it - if it doesn't need to be as big look for an new old stock ce6000-40 - haven't seen any reports on the 115" version like that but lots of issues with the new ce7000-60 since they moved production.   also not familiar with the UK market other than I know they have the graphtec, roland and summa plotters - all of which are a large step up from the refine MH -  

    very little marks on the vinyl would indicate the pressure is not high enough on the rollers - the marks are normal and go away when the vinyl is installed

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    4 hours ago, dirtymonkee said:

    I have, to try to alleviate issue but changed back. This is what they are on now. Level with screw. No pressure, less or more made any difference.

    too many people over the years have lowered the pressure to eliminate the marks made by the pressure rollers that are totally normal and cause problems similar to yours - as the blade causes more friction than the pressure rollers the vinyl slips - kinda thought from the pictures the pressure had been lowered quite a bit. 

    On yours compared to the others I have seen the spring has the top coil pulled up quite a bit - on most the spring separates evenly throughout the coils as the pressure is increased 

     

  18. Posted

    5 hours ago, Ayomide said:

    I plug my Seiki plotter to find out the power on and off is not working anymore , what can I do ?

    the seiki isn't sold by uscutter but we do have a few users on here with them - I would start with trying another power cable (yes I have had one go bad) - then look into a new power supply if you can find one.   other possible suspects are the mainboard or control panel so it is a trial and error on a little supported plotter

  20. Posted

    2 minutes ago, CBCD said:

    Using flexi trying to get the vinyl express q130 to cut. Can’t find the issue. Can see it on PM but when send to cut it does nothing. All help is needed please!!!  

    vinyl express cutters are rebranded graphtecs with a proprietary chipset in them so they only work with sign warehouse drivers - flexi should have sign warehouse drivers with the units listed under that - so if a updated flexi you should be good to go 

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    1 minute ago, MZ SKEETER said:

    Reread Scott.  LOL  He doesn't currently have a cutter. ( "I don't currently have a cutter")  He wants to know if the roller issue has been fixed, so that he can buy a Graphtec CE7000

    you are right again.  heck I would like to know if they ever fixed the issue too - but not buying another one to find out 

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  22. Posted

    On 8/10/2020 at 4:21 PM, Dakotagrafx said:

    update - I am not going to do extensive testing until my fever goes down (3rd day and lower gi issues) but graphtec sent new "guides" with a 1/4" raised nylon strip that at first try seems to feed better 

    new strip.jpg

    this is the difference in the new and old guides.

    maybe someday I will get the opportunity to play with another ce7000 and see if they fixed the issue 

  23. Posted

    On 7/25/2020 at 2:12 PM, Dakotagrafx said:

    I am wondering if this is what the original poster had encountered.  I have a lot of seat time on the graphtecs and this is a new one on me - will probably have to wait till first week of august before I can call graphtec support but it is not the amount of rollers causing this, there is something else going on.   

    I did notice the new graphtecs are produced in thailand :/

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    this is from the one I had - 

  24. Posted

    1 hour ago, New2022 said:

    Hi,

    I'm new here, I just signed up in the hope someone can tell me if this issue is now fixed? I ask because I was literally about to order a Graphtec CE7000-60 after looking for a vinyl cutter for the last couple of months and then I came across a YouTube video showing the problem. There were a few comments by others with the same issue, one of the users said:

    and when the user was asked if the guide fixed the problem, they said:

    If the worst case is waiting for a guide that will 100% fix the problem, I'm OK with that.

    when I got mine they sent me the new material guides and I worked with graphtec a while trying to cure the issue - I finally fixed it when I sent the ce7000 back and got the fc9000 - hurt the pocketbook but sure cuts fine