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the cyan ink in the capping station right next to it and you are getting contamination at the head. when you pull the head aside, is there more or less yellow or cyan ink sitting in the caps? what kind of printer is it?

better yet, cut off a piece and scan it high res. sometimes the issue pics are a bit blurry and it's hard to diagnose.

you definitely need the exposed silver ends on one side. on the board and print head, only one side makes contact. the contacts are like tiny springs that press against the ends of the ribbons. on cables4computer's website it mentions "Make your own custom cables with our high quality bulk...

i'm sure that would work as long as the spacing is right. they'd have to line up perfectly. i'd just notch out and leave a corner. bulk cables don't often come in 31, but i've seen 34 pin regularly. even without the valves, just the added space of taking apart the tubing harness and the extra...

i have to apologize for laughing at your expense.

these long horizontal lines are usually printed by a fried head, or a head with ink leaking onto it, or a head with loose or wet data cables (the loose cable issue looks slightly different). shut the printer down from the front, then from the back, then unplug, then push the power button on the...

hey vinylman! 1) yeah, i have standard masking tape holding my two data ribbon bundles in the middle. 2) as far as the valves, this is NOT the system i wanted to install. i searched ad nauseum for the perfect set of valves. and miniature valves that are made of HDPE are very rare. i'm...

figured i post my latest mod. i really like it. the jv3 carriage is a bird's nest. so i disconnected the harness of ink lines on the right, added on/off valves and a tee that i can insert cleaning solution from a manifold or one at a time. this will allow instant custody washes while keeping...

i've heard to dump it in some cat litter and discard. ...but that's the way we do it in the cow-ntry! yeeha!

in the future, do this kind of mod to the pump lines too. you can just run to the back. twist a knob and do a head soak. or pull a top tee off shoot and pull ink etc. and you have the advantage of getting visual clues if you think you might be having vacuum/pump issue when the printer is...

firmware is not my thing. this is getting really primitive. sounds like you'd have to do a "from scratch" install, the way the printer would be before any firmware existed...and not an upgrade, because it's now getting stupid on you. before you do that, do something easy (this won't help...

i'd just start the day with a reinstall of the firmware. your machine has to get a fresh set of instructions before you do anything. maybe it thinks it's a sp540 or something and all the distances are off? and fatboy! i've been messing with printers for about 12 years or so. look at this...

gaga gooey! you are not having fun. damn! yes do send that video it will be worth a ton of info. the scan motor isn't "zeroing" out before it takes off so it doesn't know where to stop. and then when it does it the second time it then knows where "0" is. the clicking noise is probably the...

i'm a newbie to solvent as of just the last three or four months. but i've been working with wide format for my art for over ten years. so don't give me too much credit. if you just installed a used printer (which i just did as well), i'd suggest getting an entire closet of cheap parts so...

it looks a little "metal" with the faunt. maybe a less is more version will stand the test of time better. you don't want older clientele avoiding the shop because it looks a little too hip for there business.

first off, solvent printers are a huge head ache. if you are used to water based, be prepared for this machine to drive you nuts with drying out and clogging. just pulling the carraige off to the side for more than 30 seconds will sound an alarm. yay! also, there's the daily cleaning cycles...

forgive if this is a really stupid question. are you printing on solvent receptive foiled substrates? i print on polished aluminum sheet a lot and have a few tricks of how to adjust the file in photoshop to WYSIWYG from monitor to metallic.

if it's well maintained than it is as good as a younger one. these printers are not different from each other. they just print ink on to stuff. same basic guts.

so officially, everywhere you put the magenta line/damper you get a problem? if so, than you have a supply problem, all being that the line holds ink and doesn't take on air. start with cleaning out the magenta ink line. don't do this by pulling ink toward the carriage. it works better by...

grrr.... sorry. did you do the diagnostic protocol of swapping lines/dampers. i.e. putting the magenta line/damper on say the black print head position and the black line/damper on the magenta head position (do not disconnect dampers from the lines. just unplug and cross lines and plug back...