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Is your ink date? What ink are you using?

I’m sure you can find a LEC540 or LEC2540 used in your market. Epson heads, no crazy ink wastage, both can do stacked clear. The UCJV330 is a great machine and isn’t a tinker toy like the 150 or 300, and doesn’t have the “be our test subject” ink wastage issue like the LG does.

Sounds like it’s time to get out and into something made in the last decade. Market is real fluid right now, people are giving away CJV’s.

That was going to be my concern

Did you unplug the printer before installing the new head? Sounds like you blew a fuse/board, or incorrectly installed your head cables.

Did you replace cap and dampers with the head?

6 years is already strike number one. Strike two is constant nozzle washes and head soaks. The solution breaks down the nozzle plate adhesive over time if overexposed. This more than likely isn’t the cap.

It’s a 5 year old head, it’s probably toast.

UCJV is the older of the two and is a workhorse.

The valve head assembly is a damper. White is your far far left one when facing the printhead. I am in a tech in the Midwest. I have replaced dampers on a 661. It’s annoying. There’s a cage around the dampers, all ink lines have to be removed, it’s a pure gravity fed machine, meaning those...

Depends on if they’ve fixed the ink wasting issue.

Been playing around with this stuff as well, flexi complete would/should allow you to profile with from what it looks like all or most of the x-rites. Have you downloaded any of the profiles from the Mimaki profile center before jumping into this extra expense rabbit hole? Wouldn’t hurt to...

Shake 5 days a week and you’ll be fine. You just need to keep the titanium in suspension. It’s a small machine with a small recirculation pump so it’s not able to do what the bigger machines do more automatically. It’s more important to use it. Shake all you want, if you’re not printing white...

The story/journey…

So ready for more

Can you not print white with the generic profile?

Thebigfishdigital offers an awesome rainbow.

You can absolutely have a profile that does everything sorts well enough. That’s the goal of the canned profile 101. If you want a profile, especially for a flatbed, to handle photographic reproductions the best, you are best off building profiles. You misunderstood my response. I understand...

You can try different rip softwares, like flexi or Onyx, where you will have access to color profiling without having to buy an additional software license. Flatbeds are generally used for basic sign making, so canned profiles are more than likely built to replicate solid colors the best they...

it’s time to take some Photoshop / illustrator design classes. Flexi is a tool, you do need more to be fully functional.