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That nozzle check it pretty messed up. I would say the cap tops are probably not working properly or are clogged. Also check the bottom of the heads to see if there is any physical damage.

I would check it out to make sure it's working properly. Open the maintenance cover and take the metal plate off that covers the bottom of the maintenance station and watch it when it runs a cleaning cycle. You should see ink coming down the tubes. If no ink comes down during the cycle...

The Mimaki JFX200 is a very good entry level flat bed that is pretty much exactly what you described. It's not the fastest machine but it's not slow by any means. The quality is high and it's easy to do short or long runs. The footprint is about as big as any flat bed which is to say, it takes...

Did you change the maintenance station during this time or recently? If not, I would start there. It sounds like it may not be pulling ink down like it should.

I'd take some covers off and see if there are any major air bubbles in the lines. Moving the machine can cause this to happen sometimes and it might just need to be filled up. In some cases you can get vapor lock and might just need to manually pull ink through with a syringe.

You also want to make sure the roll is parallel with the platen. If one side is higher than the other it will cause it to pull in that direction. You can see if yours is parallel by using a strip of banner material and looping it around the take up roll. Then feed the banner material through the...

Looks like a profile issue to me. Have you tried another profile or do you make your own perhaps?

Windows 7 also has compatibility mode. Just right click on the icon of the software you want to run and then click on properties. There will be a tab in the window that pops up for compatibility settings. I usually also check the run as administrator box as well. Edit: Just adding that the...

You should be able to run every piece of software you ran on XP on a windows 10 computer. I have never run into a program that wouldn't run. Sometimes you have to run it in compatibility mode to get it to work but it should work on most every piece of software.

Are the ink cartridges actually empty when the machine says they are? If they are actually empty, you have a siphon effect happening in the maintenance station. If the carts are not empty, your maintenance station is not working at full efficiency.

The pack end sensor is probably jamming it up. Unfortunately the best way to get it out without breaking the sensor is to dismantle the cartridge holder which is not as easy as it may look. If it is the black cartridge you are in luck because it's the easiest to handle. If you get the old...

That sound isn't normal for sure. You need to unplug the printer and then move the head manually back and forth to figure out where it is catching. You should be able to feel it when it catches. Once you can figure out where that sound is coming from, it will lead you to the solution. You might...

On Mimaki printers they come from the manufacture setup for a 220V power input so if you use an American 110V plug it takes forever to heat up. I'm not sure if the Roland VS series does something similar but you can look around the power plug for a little dial that allows you to switch it to 110...

I don't have that tech manual yet but the 0109 on other Roland printers means that wiper origin sensor did not detect the wiper returning properly. I would say your wiper is either jammed or the sensor is malfunctioning.

When it comes to media buckling the main things are loading the material straight and proper heat settings. If the roll is telescoped, no matter how straight you load the material it will start to skew so just make sure the roll is nice and flush on each side. Some materials are just more prone...

Try James McGill at 270 243-0599. We have contracted him out to do jobs in MO.

The random red and green lines that are printing indicate it could also be a bad or dirty encoder strip. Also, how does your nozzle check look? I think you have multiple issues going on at the same time.

He uses the raster images as templates to design the layout for cut graphics and then discards the raster image.

Make a box that is 1 foot by 3.5 feet long and design within those bounds. When you bring it back into the cut software, scale by 1000%. This gives you a 1:10 ratio as you described.I prefer 1:10 because all you have to do is move the decimal point.

I can't tell you how many times I have "fixed" a printer and wondered how I did it.