Tips & Tricks

Like our name suggests, we have super-useful tips and tricks to help you with design projects, 3D production, vehicle wrapping and more. We also provide some excellent small business set-up and marketing advice as well as practical tips and tricks about our Roland DG software, print machinery and 3D milling products.

Color, Color, Color…

21 August 2024 Jay Roberts Quick Tips , Tips & Tricks , Software , Service & Support

In this week’s Quick Tip, Roland DGA’s UV Printer Product Manager, Jay Roberts, walks Roland DG users through the six new color options available in VersaWorks v6.22 designed to make printed colors brighter and more vibrant than ever before.

How to Generate a Flood of White for the BY-20 Using FlexiDESIGNER VersaSTUDIO Edition

29 July 2024 Daniel Valade Tips & Tricks , Quick Tips , Software

This Quick Tip from Roland DGA’s Product Manager of Digital Print, Daniel Valade, outlines the steps that BY-20 users can take in FlexiDESIGNER VersaSTUDIO Edition to generate a flood of White ink behind the CMYK portion of graphics. By following this simple process, users can achieve optimum opacity and ensure that colors transferred to the final substrate are as bright and vibrant as possible. We encourage you to share this helpful Quick Tip with your BY-20 customers.

VersaWorks Quick Setup Color Management Feature

15 July 2024 Scott Burgess Quick Tips , Service & Support , Tips & Tricks , Tradeshows & Events

This week’s Quick Tip from Roland DGA’s East Coast Imagination Center Manager, Scott Burgess, shows readers how to take advantage of the new Quick Setup Color Management feature in VersaWorks 6. We encourage you to share this useful information with your customers!

Tips and Tricks for Effective Manual Cleaning of the VersaSTUDIO BD-8 Desktop UV Printer

25 June 2024 Jim Maffeo Quick Tips , Service & Support , Tips & Tricks

This week, Roland DGA application specialist Jim Maffeo provides some useful tips for manually cleaning a Roland DG VersaSTUDIO BD-8 desktop UV printer. Taking these simple yet important steps to complement the BD-8 printer’s automated cleaning features will help ensure many years of optimum performance.

How To Effectively Add Spot Gloss With Photoshop Alpha Channels

06 June 2024 Matt Koenigsmann Quick Tips , Tips & Tricks , Software

This week’s Quick Tip provides pointers for adding spot gloss to rasterized images by creating “alpha channels” in Photoshop. Useful information to share with your clients!

How to Manually Register Your Printer in DG Connect Hub

08 May 2024 Scott Burgess Quick Tips , Tips & Tricks , Software

This week’s Quick Tip familiarizes readers with the DG Connect Hub and outlines the simple steps to follow if manually registering your device within this application is required. Useful information to share with customers!

“Paper or Plastic?” … “Paper, Please!”

24 April 2024 Jay Roberts UV Printing , Quick Tips , Tips & Tricks

Roland DG (and we at Roland DGA) are doing our part to protect our fragile environment. As part of that effort, we’ve replaced our original plastic ink cartridges with new, more environmentally friendly plastic cartridges. This week’s Quick Tip provides a closer look at the improved “greener” version, highlights the changes, and provides answers to some frequently asked questions. Great information to share with your clients!

What You Should Know About Media Reflective Intensity

01 April 2024 Dave Hawkes Quick Tips , Service & Support , Tips & Tricks , Software

This week’s Quick Tip from Roland DGA Desktop UV Printer Manager Dave Hawkes provides some insights on “Media Reflective Intensity” and how to counter the effects it can have upon the printheads of a UV inkjet. Useful information to share with your customers!

How to Select the Best Background Color for DTF Printing

18 March 2024 Phillip Chu Quick Tips , Software , Tips & Tricks , Service & Support

This week’s Quick Tip is from Philip Chu, Roland DGA’s new Product Manager of Specialty Devices. Philip provides some useful pointers on selecting the best background color when setting up artwork for direct-to-film printing. Great information to share with your VersaSTUDIO BY-20 or BN-20D customers.

“Peach Fuzz” is Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2024 – Why That’s Important and How to Match Any Pantone Color

26 February 2024 Jay Roberts Quick Tips , Software , Tips & Tricks , Service & Support

Pantone recently announced it’s 2024 color of the year – the recently released “Peach Fuzz.” This week’s Quick tip outlines a few simple steps in your customers can take in VersaWorks to accurately match Peach Fuzz – or any other Pantone color – quickly and easily.