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Equipment / Re: MSP3140 transformer
« Last post by ebscreen on Today at 11:26:50 AM »
Can you pull the old one and find the numbers on it?  It's probably half the price elsewhere.

They obscure/remove markings.

If you know the voltages in/out and watts you can easily find a replacement.

Not sure what it is about the MSP3140, but those things eat what are otherwise considered least likely to die components in
the electronics world, IE transformers and chokes. I vaguely recall someone adding more cooling fans to the controls box which
probably isn't a bad idear.
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Screen Making / Re: Screen Room LED's
« Last post by GraphicDisorder on Today at 11:26:22 AM »
Got it, appreciate the input.  We have a bunch of huge skylights, it's like being outside in here, so we have to have a dark room, plus we would
need like a million cabinets to store screens so we had to build this one out. It's the long term storage/exposure that gets me, can be such
a hard thing to pinpoint, IE "maybe we could have gotten a little more detail out of that one". I guess I could image a high mesh screen and leave
it sitting for a couple weeks for testing.

Ya with sky lights you probably need to do it. Here we've left screens certainly for hours out, not normal thing but its happened. Without any noticeable affect.
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Screen Making / Re: Screen Room LED's
« Last post by ebscreen on Today at 11:09:16 AM »
Got it, appreciate the input.  We have a bunch of huge skylights, it's like being outside in here, so we have to have a dark room, plus we would
need like a million cabinets to store screens so we had to build this one out. It's the long term storage/exposure that gets me, can be such
a hard thing to pinpoint, IE "maybe we could have gotten a little more detail out of that one". I guess I could image a high mesh screen and leave
it sitting for a couple weeks for testing.
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Screen Making / Re: Screen Room LED's
« Last post by GraphicDisorder on Today at 09:53:18 AM »
We have LED Lights in our entire shop, high bay out in warehouse/print area and also normal LED in our offices. We coat/image/burn in direct light, no dark room here. We did mention to the light people the type of work we did and he did make a choice on light color but not sure what it is to be honest.

I just know we never have screen issues and I didn't want to mess around with a darkroom, our building doesn't really have a great spot for that.
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Screen Making / Re: Screen Room LED's
« Last post by mk162 on Today at 09:31:13 AM »
We run just cheap LED tubes and put clear UV sleeves on them. 
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Equipment / Re: MSP3140 transformer
« Last post by mk162 on Today at 09:29:03 AM »
Can you pull the old one and find the numbers on it?  It's probably half the price elsewhere.
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Equipment / MSP3140 transformer
« Last post by repogolfer on Yesterday at 07:51:09 PM »
Has anyone had any luck finding an alternative vendor for the transformer that the MSP3140 uses.  M&R wants $623 for it.   I tried looking up the numbers shown on the photo but no luck.  Item #1019146

Do I just bite the bullet on this one?

Jon
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Screen Making / Screen Room LED's
« Last post by ebscreen on Yesterday at 12:25:38 PM »
Building out our new screen room, and wondering about work lighting. We've always used the UV blocking sleeves on fluorescent bulbs,
but I've always hated being under that weird yellow light.

It's a drop ceiling, and my thought was a couple of those drop in LED replacement panels. From what I've read, regular LED's emit almost no
UV light, and especially at a distance of 8 feet or so it shouldn't be an issue. My concern is long term accumulation, some of our higher mesh screens
may be sitting around a month or so.

Anyone have any real world experience with LED lighting in screen/storage rooms?
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Private listings / Re: Price Screens
« Last post by mk162 on June 17, 2026, 02:30:26 PM »
best price or best screens? For us - Spot Color #1 and close 2nd is River City Supply. I have no idea how they compare in prices to other places because I honestly don't care.
This! Spot Color is in my backyard, so that helps.  Brannon stops by with his trailer when he's in the area.
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Private listings / Re: Price Screens
« Last post by Homer on June 17, 2026, 08:12:11 AM »
best price or best screens? For us - Spot Color #1 and close 2nd is River City Supply. I have no idea how they compare in prices to other places because I honestly don't care.
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