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These machine shave a mind of their own sometimes!

It's virtually impossible for all of the dampers fail at the same time. If you're just pulling air at the cap top, that's what's causing the ink not to flow. Do you have the old cap top to throw in and see if it does any better?

The main reasons head strikes happen are: The heat is too high causing the media to buckle The pinch rollers aren't feeding properly causing the media to buckle The material is too thick for the machine There's ink build up on the bottom of the head The vacuum is failing or clogged with dust

That sounds right. Unfortunately it sounds like everything is setup correctly but it's just not sealing for some reason. The fact that you couldn't recover the old head points towards the same thing. It's rare that the cap is misaligned but I would get some black ink on a swab and swab it around...

It might be a firmware thing. Different regions of the world get different firmware sometimes based on which inks are legal etc. Sometimes these machines save the ink type so when you try to fudge the fill up parameter it only gives you the original ink you chose as an option. At this point if...

When the fuse blows it doesn't affect the ink flow in the lines when doing cleanings. So your main issue is the ink flow. Once you get ink flowing to the head, if it still prints nothing, then you can suspect the fuse. It sounds like the cap top isn't sealing for some reason. Make sure that...

I assume the dampers were OEM too then? Did you change the connector and o-ring along with the dampers?

That's normal. When the head is capped though, you shouldn't hear air.

Ok so that means the cap isn't sealing. Make sure the head is in low head height and double check that the head is not crooked in the carriage. I usually push the head carriage over the platen and check the gap between the head and the platen. The head surface and the platen should be parallel...

Should be under Ink Parameter 1 and it should be the 1st parameter.

If ink isn't moving at all in all colors it means the maintenance station isn't working properly. Make sure you attached the 3rd tube to the bottom of the cap top. That one tends to be forgotten sometimes during installs and will prevent a seal from forming. If that's connected properly, you can...

It's weird. All over the CJV150 spec sheet it says you can use ES3 ink but in the tech manual it doesn't show as an option to change in the parameters. If it were me I would change the fillup flag to 0 to tell the machine it needs to fill up for the first time. Then it should ask you what type...

I'd love to try a real Australian beer! When you boot up in local mode, hit enter a few times and it will scroll through some information on the screen. One of those screens will have information about the ink levels and it should show the ink type it's expecting in the top left corner. What...

I was that kid in high school. My dad had disappeared years earlier and my mom was raising 5 kids alone. She couldn't come to all the meets but showed up at the end of year award ceremonies and sometimes the other moms would make little comments about, "Why is she here? etc" We both let it roll...

You can download the ones Mutoh provides here. Otherwise check the vinyl manufacturer's site.

The cartridges will be set up just like your JV33 so MMCCYYKK. The dampers should be se up as below: CKCM 2578 MYKY 1346 Take the cover off the back of the cartridge area. You will see where you can connect each line together there. You need to connect the lines because the machine only...

I see a big dent on the other head that lines up with the other ones. It could have been something left on the platen like a screw or something. I'm not sure how the damper could cause physical damage to a head.

The main difference between your current Epson and the new one is the heads have 10 channels instead of 8. So you are running CMYKx2 inks. With the 10 channel heads you get Light Cyan and Light Magenta which smooths out gradients and transitions. You'll also get orange and red which actually...

Those look like dents on the head surface. Dents usually mean the head hit something hard like a screw or some other metal object and wouldn't be covered under warranty. Also, the standard warranty here in the US is only 90 days.

And if you want to do it 100% right, wait 15 minutes after unplugging it. If you test the power output after it's unplugged it's still outputting close to 100% of the power and it takes about 15 minutes to fully discharge.