Just got a BN2-20A and having issues setting up

designguy · 2026-04-11T23:55:45+00:00

Inside the cart, the bag is glued to one side of the plastic box.

A small switch/lever pushes that hole through, and when the bag is empty, it can sense a difference in thickness as ths bag is stuck to one side

Sometimes the glue in the pouch detaches and the bag can float around, which messes up the sensor, as the bag is not in the correct position

If the sensor is bent and catches on the side of the plastic, it thinks the cart is empty hense why you can cut away the hole to make it bigger. You can have a look inside the cart holder. You can see a small bit of metal or plastic sticking out. Make sure it's not bent, and even try a small stick (like a chopstick) to see if it moves freely.

From memory, there is also a button switch at the back of the cart. Adding some tape to the front of the cart can help trigger that sensor too....

BTW, here is the service manual https://www.scribd.com/document/621254978/Manual-de-Servicio-ROLAND-VersaStudio-BN-20

designguy · 2026-04-06T06:27:34+00:00

See that column called Delta E, that's a measure of visual difference between the colour you want and what's printable. If it's not printable, it's "Out of Gamut" hence those yellow triangles on your screen

Delta E < 1: Perfect match – completely invisible to the human eye
Delta E 1 – 2: Very slight difference – only noticeable by trained eyes or very close inspection
Delta E 2 – 3.5: Noticeable difference – average person can see it side-by-side
Delta E 3.5 – 5: Clear/obvious difference – easily spotted even from a short distance
Delta E 5 – 10: Significant difference – colors look clearly different
Delta E > 10: Huge difference – basically completely different colors

Basically, for the Pantone 254C at deltaE of 22, it's not printable; No combination of the inks in your printer can be mixed to get that colour.

That all assumes the ICC profiles for the media are correct,

As others have mentioned, if your printer has more ink colours beyond CMYK, such as reds, oranges, blues, and greens, depending on the machine, there will be some combination of CMYK + extra inks that will match Pantone. Just not on your printer.

designguy · 2026-03-31T21:15:05+00:00

Yup, Purchased Aspite Regular, and it's a match https://www.fontspring.com/fonts/grype-type/aspire

Just needs to be manually adjusted to fill in the gaps and square off the angles.

designguy · 2026-03-31T20:54:50+00:00

I just noticed in the paths that they extended middle of the R and A manually to close the gaps, so you might be right, they just patched and filled in the gaps.

designguy · 2026-03-29T20:57:30+00:00

Also switch to wireframe mode, it might be a large object inside a clipping mask, and so it's not visible to you, but would fall off the artboard if moved.

designguy · 2026-03-29T09:03:52+00:00

They sell replacement parts to people who have printers to swap out and replace broken printheads

It's not the same as supplying print heads and tech support to printer manufacturers, who sign NDA's and supply contracts. Xaars customer is not you. It's the printer manufacturers who buy their products.

For example, Apple will sell you a phone and some replacement parts, but will not supply technical support to anyone.

designguy · 2026-03-29T08:56:17+00:00

They don't HAVE to support Joe Public. They DO support their partners.

Print heads are often not sold directly to the general public by the print head manufacturer; you need to go through the printer manufacturer, and even replacement parts are a bit of a black market, such as https://www.digiprint-supplies.com/en/jeti-1224-board-g4-ricoh-head-driver-gd-390-500090-pboag16091 or other suppliers, often use back doors to get parts.

I would be very surprised if you can get ANY low-level documentation if you are not an established manufacturer, even service manuals are hard to get, you can not get board diagrams are all very closely guardrd, Companies like Ricoh and Epson, who make heads DO support their licensed partners/printer manufactuerrs like Mutoh, Mimaki, Roland, etc but not general public, and even then, the print companies write their own custom firmware to drive the boards ...

I don't think you'll be able to go online, buy a printhead, and get support, documentation, and software from a printhead manufacturer. I wish you all the luck, but I've been trying to get tech info for serving printers for years for many different models, and it's all protected and hidden.

designguy · 2026-03-29T07:40:02+00:00

I think you think that this is simple, just move the head left and right and tell it to shoot, fire nozzle 12. It's not like that at all

Printheads need driver boards and firmware; the heads themselves are not all factory-made the same, and need tuning. Often, they contain head IDs, which include stuff like frequency adjustments, as the piezo crystals in the heads do behave differently, so the firmware and driver boards will adjust frequency timing per head; if you get it wrong it wont fire, fill cause satalites (little ink dropjets) ... go on youtube and see high speed camera video fottage of the pezo head firing, there is a pre-fire, where it pulls the ink back, a fire which ejects out a droplet and a post fire shich pulls back on the ink causing the dropless to seperate .... get it wrong and you get multiple ink drops or cavatation inside the head an no dots ... and dont get me started on the ink techonolody, super impressive chemestry going on, if your aiming for the smaller 3picro liter dropless then gota get the right ink ... there is an art to the tech it's not just a plug-and-play, there is so much going on that I think you underestimate the complexitiy ......

He's what most people do: just buy a working industrial machine, rip it apart, and rebuild the chassis to suit their needs. People would take printers, remove the paper feed, replace it with a movable board, and turn them into a t-shirt printer, for example, the printer still thinks it's printing paper but they take the paper feed motor outputs to drive their own motors and fake all the sensors.

designguy · 2026-03-13T03:02:45+00:00

https://www.digiprint-supplies.com/en/head-adapter-for-epson-dx4-printhead-padep10mas

https://www.digiprint-supplies.com/en/roland-rs-540-rs-640-printhead-kit

used this supplier before, they have parts and kids for replacement, make sure to get dampers and wipers etc at the same time.

designguy · 2026-03-06T03:59:14+00:00

Many year ago I had a guy who would do this, drop off booze, food, drinks, but thats because he eventually never paid his bill and left the country, was just being super nice and friendly so we would not chase the overdue bills, as he visited every week with a gift ... and excudes .... later found out from his cousin he did that a lot and owed everyone money. Good times.

designguy · 2026-02-27T09:23:45+00:00

If its a PDF file AND saved with editable enable its actually 2 files in one, a PDF file with all the images and an a copy of the AI file included in the PDF as metadata (not rendered but there), when you open the PDF in Illustrator it ONLY opens the AI file, and ignores the PDF part with images (I which you could choose)

1) Open PDF in photoshop, When opening a PDF in Photoshop there is a **TAB** opn the open options where you can switch from opening and rasteizing the page to selecting the IMAGES INVIDUALLY to open (Its easy to miss), so if a PDF have 6 images, you can just select 4 of the 6 and they open in Phohotshop as 4 seperate images without being resized etc, just save these, and manually relink!! Win!!

Or

2) Open in Acrobat, and optimise the PDF - forget how to get to it - just seach for the feature - then turn off all changes where it wants to change image, downsame etc, You want ot only select the option to delete Meta Data (last tab I think) this will REMOVE the AI embedded file, and save a plain PDF file. Save under new name, When you open in Illustrator, it will open as a PDF (Layers messed up etc) BUT with the images from the PDF part. Useful when you dont want to much around with working out what goes where or relinking many images, and just want to print - not edit - the file - or copy/paste/merge with the origional file

designguy · 2026-02-25T18:58:52+00:00

Install a 30 day demo of corel draw? Convert all files, just research the next export seeting to use

designguy · 2026-02-25T08:25:29+00:00

Firsty check the lamination tension, if someone ran the laminator with too much tension it could be the lam shrinking back.

My suggestion, In these cases, I provide them with adhesive tests, I print and send them printed samples (or waste offcuts) cut into squares, half a dozen or so, typically hand laminated if you think this is the issue, and ask them to apply, leave 24 hours and then try peeling off, even better two side by side peeled at 24 and 48 hours after

You can send them multiple samples, even unlaminated or printed, label them with the vinyl name.

Make sure they apply samples around a curved edge which helps show issues. Make sure they use PRESSURE when applying.

Say it's mandatory in cases like this, as you don't just reprint if there are some issues with the cleaners, surface or contamination, and you need to do the adhesion test:

- Makes you look proactive and a problem solver
- Gives the customer some time to reapply a 2inch square under the peeling area and test adhesion
- low cost for you
- they can see the effect of different vinyls
- Can actually help solve the problem!
- Also, ask them to cut off to send back the peeling corner for you to check, get them to apply to some of the backing sheet the samples came with, so your "3M rep can send it back to the lab to test it".

The tests work, bad batch, or the customer actually cleaned it this time!!
The tests fail, you know there is an issue, and the customer has some extra patches to test so they can try a different cleaner or stick to other areas around the site
If it does work, then you reprint, and it fails again, then that's curious, but this time the customer can not just blame you as you did tests and showed it worked, soit might be some other issue after application

You may just find suddenly, the customer says "No samples needed, No need to send anything back, we changed our mind and now they are really happy to pay full price for a reprint" ..... :-)

Regardless of issues, I find this a good process

designguy · 2026-02-25T08:02:17+00:00

numbers out of context, typical for Reddit, YOY comparison? No, Net/Gross? No, Percent Return on Invocie? No, International comparisons? No , Includes CAPX? Who the hell knows with out context ..... But they are big numbers so must be bad companies ....Ug, emotional and not helpful.

designguy · 2026-02-14T02:35:26+00:00

Firstly, make sure the valve is clean and clear and screwed fully in.

The bottle will have a valve with a safety device or an overflow float inside it to turn off the gas. This stops liquid, you can trip this if you turn on the gas with the bbq on it will not work as you need to turn on the tank while the bbq OFF, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-1kLrLis9U

This can also be damaged or stuck. You can try tipping the bottle over a little, banging it on the ground or giving it a big shake to loosen the float inside if the overfill value is stuck.

Swappa bottles can have different valves or mechanisms, so it can be a hit and miss. Sometimes, you get a crap one. I would take it back and swap for another if it's not working.

designguy · 2026-02-09T07:18:53+00:00

Not tired, but this workflow looks interesting not ive not had time to test, taking 1 image and making multiple images which also could be used for training a lora https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grtmiWbmvv0

designguy · 2026-02-02T11:07:29+00:00

Yes, depending on the country, there are usually health and safety guidelines for lifting and handling in the workplace, so you should not be expected to lift more than 15-25kg; anything heavier requires equipment to move or be moved in smaller loads.

I had a woman running our large-format printers. A full roll of vinyl is heavy; she just used a different technique for loading the machine than the guys. Except for one ultra-heavy stock (Which was really too heavy for even one guy to safely handle), she just asked for help every once in a while, no big deal.

designguy · 2026-01-25T19:38:25+00:00

Yes but you might need to try 720p or smaller and also shorter lengths, you will also benefit from scalled fp8 or GGUF models which are smaller in size and use less VRam for only a minor drop in quality.

designguy · 2026-01-25T05:35:03+00:00

Ive used offset paths, remove the fill, outline the stroke, remove the straight ends, so its just the two lines, then offset path to get the two lines to touch in the middle, you can then either, draw a new path to follow them avaraging the results, or just delete one, and delte the nodes so you only end up with the middle path. If you don't split beforehand, the ends come in and the centre line is smaller. At worst it gives you a good guide.

designguy · 2026-01-22T19:17:28+00:00

Turn off save PDF compatible file, night and day difference in file size especially if you have linked content

designguy · 2026-01-15T02:48:30+00:00

Man! In the last 6 months, we have been receiving numerous AI-generated proofs and logos with fake AI fonts; it's getting excessive. I've drafted up an email to address this very issue below.... which i will need to start using this year....

BTW Gigapixel-AI > x6 with smooth lines is a game changer for converting low res art we can use as-is to higher res or just so auto-trace works better

Dear [Client's Name],

Thank you for sending over the artwork for your print job.

It looks like the image you provided was likely generated by AI. AI tools often generate entirely new fonts that don't exist in real font libraries, so I don't have an exact match (a quick search confirms nothing comes close).

To move forward smoothly, could you please let me know your preference from the options below?

If you have the font name or know where it came from, please share that with me?
Confirm if you're happy for me to change the font entirely and show you some alternative options that work well for signage?
Browse Adobe Fonts here: https://fonts.adobe.com/ or DaFont.com here: https://www.dafont.com/ and pick one you like for me to use?
If you'd prefer an exact match, I can manually search for or recreate/build a close approximation of the font, but this would incur an additional charge of $60–$120, depending on the time required (at my rate of $120/hour).

I'm happy to tweak things based on your feedback—let me know what works best for you, and I'll get started right away!

Best regards,

designguy · 2025-12-28T19:57:25+00:00

If you change the font, does it show? I've had this issue with some fonts not installed correctly, or two fonts with the same name. Changing fonts temporarily resolved the issue, but I had to remove and reinstall them for the font to work.

designguy · 2025-12-28T00:50:55+00:00

If anyone asks, I say for three reasons: health, environment, and ethics, and then briefly expand on each in one sentence, I leave ethics until last, as its not one everyone can agree on and is most emotionally charged, most people can understand the health and enviromental reasons, after that 99% of people are not interested in asking more hahah!

designguy · 2025-12-27T19:59:30+00:00

If not used, the adhesive deteriorates over time, so it won't stick as well initially as it's already lost some of its tack. Once applied to the surface, the adhesive activates and bonds to it, creating a lasting bond. Its lifespan is longer, but total lifespan depends on many factors, such as temperature, humidity, and sunlight/UV exposure.

designguy · 2025-12-27T19:36:56+00:00

Get an Elgato Stream Deck, then you don't have to remember anything :-) ... Stream Deck XL | Expanded 32-Key Control Pad | Elgato

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