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thanks, there's a decent bit of info on the mimaki yahoo forum as well. have yet to dig around. turned the machine off for the night.

hoping for some input asap. a few months ago i added refillable carts to my 160sp. but did not buy endless chips. i'm running triangle with the ss1 chips off of some factory ink. they've been reading 2% for a loooong time. and i knew that sometime in july the expiration date thing would...

do you mean for a head soak? the capping station is usually plugged by nothing more than trapped air below when you pour some solution into it. if the pump stops in a open position it will allow the ink do simply drain into the waste bottle. from what i know, pumps stop in the closed...

are you absolutely sure that your cap lines are clear? i felt that my cap lines were clear because visually the part that hangs out was clear. but the clog in a cap line sits directly beneath the cap. not further down. pull your capping station off and flip it over. pull off the lines that...

to check on the pump issue (i just fixed a badly clogged drain tube). after tons cleaning, i finally just pulled the capping station, soaked it in solution, yanked the drain tubes and replace. very quick fix. in order to finally diagnose that it was the #3 drain tube, i did a pump line swap...

that is a data issue. something is shorting out. i'd look for loose data ribbons, ink on the boards, but be careful. that machine could self destruct if you keep running it undiagnosed.

before blaming the ink (could be a coincidence), i'd do an ink line/damper swap with other head positions to see if the issue follows the ink supply or stays at the head position.

i've got service manuals on most everything jv3.

is it universally across all the colors? have you moved the printer and it is too high one side. was it gradual or did it show up immediately? did you just load a new batch of inks? the printer when heading back and forth across the platen the ink line is being bent and straightened with...

the proper way to power down for resetting and maintenance is to turn off from the front, turn off the back, unplug, press the front button four times slowly. that is the only way to discharge the capacitors. when doing this you will sometimes see the front button light up once or twice even...

welcome to $$$ hell! no, really, you very well likely have three completely clogged heads if the printer wasn't shut down properly. when you bought the printer, was there any mention of the printer being "custody washed" or shut down properly? if no mention, were the ink lines clear of ink...

go to a sherwin williams, buy a gallon of butly cellosolve and a quart of acetone and mix them together 4/1 ratio (gallon to quart). tada, you've got $175 worth of cleaning solution for $45.

if you do a data swap (cables in parallel moved to adjacent positions) it will print the colors the width of a dx4 head off to the left and right?

1... just the routine cleaning cycles that solvent printers do every few hours. i guess you make the printer run head cleaning cycles. but letting the ink absorb solvent for an hour, then purge, etc. several times would be more effective. 2... to make the cleaning cartridge: hardware...

you can try this. i've had two to four misdirected lines on my black head for a long time. didn't worry much, did repeated soakes, etc. but it no luck. the other day i was working on the printer and needed to wash the heads because it would be turned off for however long it took (which took...

has everyone seen these two videos of a guy using a high powered halogen, it's a bit crude, i think if i was to build a retrofit, i'd just do what mutoh did. i'm sure they tried everything (heated platens, and a mini "hair dryer"). the "hair dryer" could easily be built from an acrylic bending...

sorry if this has been addressed or doesn't even apply to the issue. i breezed through the thread. if your head height it too high, it will lightly contact the caps. thus, giving you weak vacuum.

i think i'm gonna get a bottle of just cyan and run it my water based print head #3. also, i'll do some clotting/settling/coagulating tests with it to see what protocol is best for converting from solvent to sepiax. i have a feeling it might cure some headaches i'm having with a couple...

thanks marc, that is what i will do. it seems to just be weakly pumping. i have some aftermarket pump tube that i use for all my syringes, etc. but it seems to be a different shore hardness than used on the pump. i'll try rotating the tube to a new position. if that fails, i'll put on my...

muuhaahhaaaaHaaaaa!!!!! @auto-fx i do get to fart around a good bit. who says you have to have a uv lamp on your printer to print uv? just blaze it with a uv wand after printing... here's uv clear on aluminum. neato!