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a vertically printed "data" line/mark is usually a portion of the data cable inside of the cable carrier or a the board is being pinched or torqued i'd push the carriage out to that point and see if you see something or hear something. or at that point snug up/straighten anything that looks to...

it's a micro film that the head carriage's encoder sensor reads/counts left and right to confirm position for firing. when it has dirt (or speck of ink) on it, the sensor will skip a count and the print will start drifting right, staggered like stair steps. prints drifting to the left are a...

take off the yellow damper and pull a vacuum on it from the bottom. you'll see the membrane of the damper concave. let the damper hang for a minute or to and see if the membrane relaxes. if it takes an extended amount of time to relax, your lines or damper are restricting. you can compare...

i'm a roland guy too. they are great. just a bit on the pretty side for me lately.

on machines with voltage related overspray, the test print will be perfect. test prints are non-variable so that you can get a good look a the nozzles. that's it.

it's cultural. i'm not a historian or anthropologist, or a chinese apologist. but, i believe that from what i've studied, the chinese have a national/business identity. business is war, and all is fair in love and war. if in war, a missile lands but does not explode. any government would...

busted! look at the likeness! they clearly went to their engineers and stole design ideas from previous builds! not to mention all these printer look to be overbuilt industrial machines. they need to take a look at roland and add some pizazz.

actually i think wit-color is ripping of themselves! exhibit A! (the four head tech is something they've been working toward for a while now. earlier ultra9000 brochures discussed carriage/capping upgrades so that current ultra9000 owners would have the ability to retrofit older models to...

holy mother....four cheap dx5's at 1290 sfph 3 pass and 968 sfph 4 pass! and china is planning a trip to the moon.

i had some overspraying disappear that was plaguing my printer for months by upgrading the firmware. also, to tests comparing variable dot vs non-variable dot rips.

UPDATE: upon packing up my two fried slider boards. i notice the back of the original one off the machine is "sticky?". i did not notice this. it seemed i would have. was it sticky when it blew? or did i lay it on a solvent soaked paper towel after it blew? it seems to be butyl carbitol...

it's not just a "swap cables" in order to prove it the carriage board port vs the head you need to do a "data swap". if the band of ink follows the head the head is bad, if the issue follows the data ribbon (via port) the board needs repaired. (don't buy carriage boards, have macmedia fix them).

@ruckusman that is ingenious and depressing. at this point i have to decide to keep going or not. the ghost printing issue.... i told my boss a month ago. this will either cost $100 and five minutes to fix or four weeks and $4000. i haven't spent $4000 or spent the four weeks, yet. but...

overspray can also be caused by other things. have you done a head height comparison. too high a head height over the media and you'll get a bit of overspray. also, is your area humid or very dry? ....one odd thing too. i just solved a bit of my overspray by upgrading my firmware (this was...

@rucksman i may have something similar but i'm not sure i'm smart enough to entirely understand. you were replacing the large data cables that run from the main board to the slider? and when when the carriage jogs left, it torques the cables a bit. ... but i didn't have error 07 all the way...

@jane if i had a win-win ntek flatbed, i would go to sleep on it each night. i have pushed the mimaki to far trying to use it for flatbed work. i have to get two sample pieces ready for the biggest tradeshow in my industry (metrocon). with one week, it looks very bad. the printer is way out...

damaged slider photos photos of the two slider boards with explanation at the top.

I am completely pissed/freaking out sorry for the title but after you read this you will understand. got the two new heads in last night. this afternoon will turn the printer on and calibrate. 1. the new yellow head prints a long band. fearing a blown head i do a data swap. 2. data swap...

this is starting to be goblin-worthy. is there some equation in which the "new" width of the media on the display has some relationship to the print just printed? for example: media width 60", print width 40", post print media width 44" media width 60", print width 30", post print media...

i would have saved the parameters but the tool/data transfer just wouldn't work. now that i'm in 7.7rom, maybe it will work(?) @ironchef that is odd. so it's won't hold that measurement? but the print isn't distorted or staggered to the left or right? have you reinstalled your firmware? i...