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The only thing that will prevent ink from flowing through the head is a clog. Nozzles don't open an close like a lot of people think. They are always open and use pressure to keep ink in and shoot dots out. So it must be clogged. Have you tried doing head soaks yet?

I agree with media comp and also maybe turn up the heat. Looks like the ink sitting on top rather than biting into the vinyl.

365 used to be a merchant member as well but Firesprint is also a great choice. You can tell they take pride in their work.

We've had board repaired by Ed before. Worth a shot.

Even as a well used machine that's a steal! Wish I was in the area.

I agree with above. You have an electrical issue and it's usually bad cables. It could be a failing head and/or other electrical part though.

You need to use the offset setting that is listed on the blade packaging. Roland has 60 degree blades that have an offset as low as 0.1mm and as high as 1mm.

In my experience these heads don't clog within days. They are almost always recoverable after sitting for even weeks. Are you sure the cap top isn't just clogged? Especially if it's an after market one, they can clog very fast. A head that sits without cleaning for 4 days should be recoverable.

Signs365.com will do it for $2.99 per sqft. on 3M IJ35 with lam.

I've never worked on an LEC model but most Rolands are similar. If your bidirectional alignment is maxed out and still not aligned, you need to run the bidirectional alignment in service mode first to 0 out user mode.

We spray painted my Patriot's loving buddy's car with Broncos colors for his bachelor party. I believe what we used was called Plasti Dip. It came off with a standard car wash pressure washer.

You can slap a long piece of masking tape on the vinyl to the take up roll and that way you just waste masking tape instead of material. I've seen multiple shops do it that way and it seems to work great.

Sounds like a good plan. The port should be 9100 BTW.

There should be an IPv4 address under the ethernet adaptor heading. Since there isn't, it means there isn't a connection being made between the printer and computer. So it has to be something keeping it from connecting like a bad cable or hardware.

That could be a sign that the cable, the ethernet port on the computer, or the ethernet port on the printer might not be working properly. Do you see any lights, blinking or solid, on either of the ethernet ports?

The most straight forward way to connect is going to be a direct ethernet cable from the computer to the printer so I would try that first. The IP address should be different than the WiFi connection though which is probably why it didn't work when you plugged the cable in. Follow the...

I usually see this when the heat is too low, the profile is laying down too much ink, and/or when the ink is old. If you did a bunch of cleanings and it got better, my guess is the ink needs to be agitated a bit. Rock the cartridge back and forth a few times.

A Mutoh ValueJet 628 is basically an Epson desktop vinyl printer but it's expensive for just a sample unit. They do make water based ink receptive vinyl so you could get a regular Epson desktop and use that. It's usually a lot more expensive though.

Looks like drop out to me. Usually that's going to be a bad damper or bad connection between the damper and ink line. Check the ink lines for air bubbles as they are a sign there is a bad connection. Sometimes you won't see air bubbles but there's still a bad connection though.

Make sure your pinch rollers are in the proper positions. They can drift over time and not be on the girt part of the grit roller. If you look at the rail the pinch roller slide on, there are 2 triangle. Make sure the pinch roller is between those triangles or you will get feed, skew, and vinyl...