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Either there is a bad air leak in the system, your cartridges are not flagging empty when they are actually empty, and/or the maintenance station is not working properly. Do you see air bubbles anywhere in the ink lines above the dampers?

I have a customer who sent his vinyl to a lab to be tested and certified for safe use with children and they told him he couldn't use calendared vinyl as the phthalate content was too high. He only uses cast for that reason. But I agree with balstestrat. The inks in your SG printer are much more...

You can get a 24" Cricut or Cameo at Target these days with software for a few hundred bucks. The customer has become the competition when it comes to consumer style wall decals and t-shirts.

As a space nerd I'm jealous.

Yes, I would start with the dampers for sure. They are responsible for keeping ink flowing to the head while printing.

Good call on the lam. Without it you'll get 3 years on the ink but probably less if they get regular car washes.

Missing nozzles/channels is almost never electrical. I'd say it's probably just a bad damper or something like that.

Welp I couldn't have done any worse on my bracket this year. My final four are all out! Got to let someone else win I guess.

That could work possibly. I'd get a sample first and test it out before committing!

Black will show up decent but all other colors will look either washed out and/or just muddy. The inks are more transparent than most people think.

The nozzle check does look funky. The small gap between the patterns should be more like a stair step and not wavy. It does seem like for some reason some of the channels have flipped but I couldn't tell you what would cause that other than the main board failing but that's not guarantee. It's a...

I wouldn't call that ghosting or banding honestly. To me it looks like a processing error. Basically, the computer in the printer that processes the RIP data seems to be malfunctioning. Either that or possibly an encoder issue but I've never seen an encoder mirror an image.

Yeah something like that or maybe a bad cut strip or blade holder. There are usually alignments that can be done too. If you are print/cutting, there's an alignment for adjusting the position of the cut but also there is usually one that adjusts repeatability as well. Unfortunately I don't work...

Cutters don't have a linear encoder like printers do and depending on the manufacturer, it may not have one at all. If there is one, it's a disc inside the motor. Your issue is more likely an alignment issue or a failing part.

I'm not making any accusations but I am skeptical. Maybe they get a better deal due to local economics or something. I don't know.

I'm highly skeptical that there is genuine Roland ink in those cartridges. If they work and save you money, more power to ya. But I've sold genuine ink for Roland, Mimaki, Mutoh, and Epson and $85 is less than cost for dealers.

I can get you a new one from Mimaki if they have it in stock. Feel free to call in and someone can help you out.

Technically there is no such thing as a Mimaki unlimited chip. Most of the third party chips are simply 1 liter chips. The re-setters are a better option for sure but keep in mind that even they aren't unlimited in most if not all cases. They tend to have a limited amount of resets that need to...

Try printing a red box behind the marks. Helps the sensor see contrast better.

In my experience ultra sonic cleaners don't do any better than a simple flush with a syringe.