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Maintaining Your DCS Printer
Your purchase of a Direct Color Systems printer may be one of the significant investments you make in your business. With a little dedication to maintenance, you can keep your printer working like new for years to come.
Click here for some basic tips related to setup, clearning, maintenance and extended warranties.
UV Printing Onto Reflective, Shiny and/or Mirrored Surfaces (RSM Substrates)
There are many reflective, shiny and/or mirrored (RSM substrates) surfaces that you may wish to use with your UV printer for personalization and/or decoration, including glass and crystal products. Printing to these RSM substrates presents a specific type of challenge. You must avoid allowing the UV light to bounce back into the print head. The light can cure the inks in the nozzles and on the nozzle plate, which can cause serious damage that can significantly decrease the life of your print head. Following the simple procedures outlined in this Tech Tip will help you minimize this risk.
Color Management Troubleshooting in Color Byte RIP 9
Color management is one of the most important aspects of inkjet printing. There are many variables that come into play when trying to accurately match colors. This Tech Tip will give a brief description of the elements of color management, followed by how to troubleshoot color matching issues on a case-by-case basis. Click here for our easy color management tips.
Creating TEXTUR3D™ Inline Prints
It's easy to create textured, 3-dimensional prints that make your projects stand out with a DCS Direct Jet UV printer and our powerful RIP 9 software. Follow these step-by-step directions to import your image, control the amount of texture in your output and create stunning TEXTUR3D™ prints inline, in a single pass!
Creating Arrays Using Color Byte Software
If you ever need to print duplicates of a single image at once, you'll be grateful for the Array function in Color Byte Rip 8 and Rip 9. The Array feature creates patterns using selected shapes as a basis. Copies of the original shapes are used to fill out the array. By using arrays in your workflow, the need to manually gang-up multiples of the image to be printed is eliminated – the Array feature does all the work for you. Click here for easy step-by-step instructions.
How to Print Acrylic Awards with Direct Jet UV LED Printers
A Direct Color Systems Direct Jet UV printer and our Color Byte Rip software combine to provide you with a powerful tool for creating custom, full-color designs. You can create brilliant acrylic awards, plaques, signage and more. Learn how to add depth that turns a simple award into a stunning piece of art.
How to Create Durable Prints Inside Open-Pored Aluminum
Use your DCS Direct Jet printer in conjunction with DuraJet™ open-pored aluminum from Horizons for revolutionary, quick and easy sub-surface color printing on aluminum. Click here to see how easy open-pore aluminum printing and sealing can be!
Set Up Custom Name Badges in Color Byte
You can quickly and easily set up and print custom name badges using Color Byte's Badge Layout and Serialization tools. Click here for a step-by-step demo.
Supersize and Contour Cut Your Image in Color Byte
You can use our Color Byte software to supersize and contour cut your low-resolution image. Click here to learn how.
How to Update Your Direct Jet Printer Pkg Online or Locally
Direct Jet printer packages are now available for automatic download or update from Direct Color Systems' Auto Updating FTP site. Click here to find out how, plus see how to select the correct USB port for your printer in ColorByte.
Custom Print Modes & ICC Profiling
Watch our demo videos to see how you can create your own custom print modes or ICC profiles. Watch the videos here.
How to Print Clear Ink Simultaneously with Color
With ColorByte Rip Pro 8, users can simultaneously print clear and color inks, in a defined and measurable amount. Click here to see how to do it!
New Direct Jet Capability: Variable-Size Dots & Nozzle Count in Printer Packages
Watch our demo video to see how to take advantage of our variable-size dots and adjustable nozzle count options to control the amount of ink and density in your applications. Watch the video here.