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maybe my supplier was trying to make an extra buck by misguiding me? but they made it sound like you almost needed a special instrument to input some of the parameters.

first take the head out. set in a small (very small) dish with just the printing platen submerged by about 1/16" of an inch. leave it here for a day or more. occasionally you can lightly place the head on a paper towel that has a medium sized spot of cleaning solution (acutally use MEK...

i print white with my mimaki 160sp. the solvent whites in it a translucent white.

if you look up cleaning solutions msds and tds sheets you can find the recipes for these things. this is what most every solvent ink uses as a base chemical http://www.jetbest.com/download/MSDS/SP+%20ink%20MSDS.pdf this is basically minus the ink (equals the cleaning solution)...

as far as shaking... i have my white in an external cartridge on a riser to the left of the machine. the cartridge will every few days have a settled white in the bottom. you can shake the cartridge for quite a while before it finally starts to loosen up. i'd get that ink in a clear...

omg. extremeinkjet wants $95 or a 500ml. that would be $10 worth of solvent for $760! also, i use bissel hard floor machine cleaner for my surfactant (it because of it's non suds-ing properties).

...but still, if you make it yourself, you can make 8x's that (4000ml) for the same $30. essentially at that maximum discount, inkjet companies are selling a gallon of solvent for $240 that costs them about $10 to make (coming from a 50 gallon drum production).

i think my board is out on my old fj50. it's been mothballed for a few months. i was told by a tech that on that model the board just can't be switched out like other models. it has to have a tech manually input all kinds of parameters at the board, not at the user menu. so it is basically...

it can be called head flush, flushing liquid, flushing solution.... it goes on and on. it's just butyl carbitol or cellosolve or a blend (they are basically the same thing one slower drying (available at sherwin williams, and in solvent antifreeze). with a cut of acetone (about 30%), and a...

i've heard of voltage settings, media static, head height, and room humidity contributing to overspray.

email me directly at a_l_l_d_r_e_d_g_e@yahoo.com we can trade phone numbers.

your dampers can get a lot of ink contamination during head soaks. the red/magenta might have leached way way into the black lines. you should probably pull that ink line and draw a good bit of cleaning solution until it runs clean. then replace the black cartridge and repull the black. i...

it can be a lot of things. looking at the photos... and i breezed through this thread so forgive it something is redundant. it does look like calibration issues. ink starvation and clogs look slightly different than this. calibration can come and go as material warms and stretches during...

i use white ink (mimaki SS2) constantly with my mimaki 160sp. and i'm going to put the roland silver in it when i get some big projects shipped. i'll be running C/M/Y/K/UV clear/propylene glycol/White/Silver. that's a funky inkset! i'd like to see a pic of this white and silver ink...

you go to lowes or home depot. you will see an entire isle of products developed by chemical engineers with decades of research behind each product specifically designed to protect wood. better yet and go to woodcraft and tap the brains of the experts on the subject. i'm a fabricator and i...

i added this replumb recently to the back of my printer. makes head soaks and other diagnostics very easy.

did you look to see if color had contaminated the dampers. i've booted up my printer and everything printed blue. only to notice that cyan had contaminated my yellow damper. thus tinting everything blue. when you do a print test pattern. does each color print correctly in the right position?

sure you do. because you invented your.... arms?

you guys are being jerks. business and invention and genius and progress is what got us all here. so you go on and wrap the cars with vinyl, and use the printers and inks and software. but respect how it all got here. by the guys like wraptor that are providing the tools. whether you like...

in the next month i'm going to modify my head carriage with a konica/minolta style automatic head cleaning system. it allows for immediate cleaning solution to be run through the heads while keeping the ink in the lines and dampers. when i get it all installed, i post the pics. i don't print...