Recent content by Colinm

Personally I would start with replacing the maintenance station as that should be needing replaced anyway. You might get lucky and the new pump and better seal fixes your problem on a strong clean but it's most likely that you need a new head.

I don't think there's an issue with that as it looks to still be connected and spinning the platen heater around causes the problem to stay on the left hand side, ie the problem moves to the other thermistor. I'm thinking it's likely what Solock suggested however I'm not sure how to fix this...

It's a long shot but have a look right along the path of the print head for any build up of ink that might be scraping the bottom of the printhead.

Thanks for the replies. I think the heater/thermistor is working as I've turned it 180 and the problem stays on the left hand side. There are 2 heaters in the platen, one on the left, one on the right. Turning the heater 180 meant the problem did not stay with the thermistor but stayed with the...

Hi, We've developed a problem on our vj1614 where the left side of the platen heater will heat up and not turn off. Eventually the machine will throw up a 077 error which I think is due to the machine overheating. It gets so hot that you can't touch it! The strange thing is the machine doesn't...

We're running the Mutoh branded UMS inks with the bulk ink system. They have been a bit problematic over the last couple of years in that they can clog the waste pipe. It sounds like it could well be the same issue as Bug. Would there be any harm in taking out the head and soaking it in...

Hello, The encoder strip seems to be in good condition and I've given it a good clean to be sure. Printing images tend to be ok however colours that require a lot of cyan have the horizontal overspray. Here is an image showing the maintenance head adjustment pattern. IMG_3006-4 — Postimage.org

A bit of an update on this in that I've noticed that the cyan jets are all printing a bit late. The image attached shows they aren't quite hitting the black. As all the nozzles seem to be physically printing and that it's only the cyan that's printing late I'm beginning to think it may be a...

Hopefully someone can help with a problem I have. We printed an image yesterday to find an extreme overspray on the cyan, it almost looks like it's dragging a hair and any colour that's heavy with cyan is banding. I've tried cleaning everything and although I can get all the jets firing, all be...