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When you setup the VG in Flexi did you set it up as a hybrid or did you set it up as a printer and separate cutter?

It's probably an ink limit issue. Have you tried other profiles? Basically what I think is going on is either the profile is laying down too much ink or the vinyl is not accepting the ink as it should which causes it to sit on top of the vinyl instead of biting into it which makes the ink run...

Water based inks should be easier to recover than solvent inks. Usually with the water based inks I use whatever the manufacturer sends with the ink. If that is unavailable then I usually use a mixture of alcohol and distilled water to flush the heads. If you switched the lines and the same...

I don't use Flexi for design a lot so I don't know off the top of my head. In Illustrator it's in the Object Menu. There should be something similar in Flexi.

It sounds dumb but make sure there is actually ink in the cartridges. If the cartridge is empty and didn't flag the machine it will just pull back on the system and cause the ink to recede back into the ink line. After that it is probably the dampers or cap top. You are on the right track.

So did you use the tiling function to make the panels or did you manual make them? If you used the tiling function then you should just be able to go back to the tiling tab and select which panel you want to print. If you manually made the panels just hide the one that you already printed and...

You probably just have worn out pinch rollers. The right side of the printer fails before the left side because it gets used more.

Unfortunately this could be a bad issue. I haven't run into it a lot and it's hard to diagnose but it could have something to do with a blown servo board or even a main board. Have you tried booting up in service mode and seeing if that works? What about booting up in cleaning mode? Does it go...

Is it giving any errors? By locking up do you mean it's just sitting there doing nothing or is it like the head is getting stuck on something?

Yeah you can't just push it to the right and have it lock. You have to find the sweet spot. I usually slowly push it to the right and as soon as I hear a click, I stop and slightly push to the left. When you push it to the left, it should not move.

So you replaced the encoder strip? If not, I would clean the encoder strip first and replace if needed. Run the encoder setup and calibration in the service mode and if either of those fail, you could have a bad strip or encoder sensor. If everything is as it should be and it still has issues...

Mimaki Corporate will send a tech out but you probably already know their prices are pretty steep. I think you will have a hard time finding an independent tech. I would look around for a Mimaki dealer who has a tech on staff. PDS Equipment may be able to help you out. They are one of the bigger...

Yeah no after market wiper I have found is soft enough to make it past the wiper scraper. OEM seems to be the best option.

Upping the heat will help the ink dry faster which should help with the buckling but heating up the vinyl also causes buckling so it's kind of a catch-22. Turning the vacuum up 100% should help suck the buckling parts down. As stated above, it might just be the ink limits are too high and the...

Yeah it's probably a bad damper or cap top. Also, flush the pump tubes to make sure they aren't clogged.

It could be the print head since it's one of the locked ones. I haven't put one in a MImaki yet but the issue you are having looks similar to when you put a locked head in a Mutoh.

Does the defect happen in the same spot on the printer on every job? I would clean the encoder strip first just to rule it out. After that you could have a bad cables anywhere from the head back to the main board. If it's not a cable it has to be the head or the main board.

I have never seen that model but I believe it is similar to the Graphtecs. There should be a sensor towards the right side of the machine that senses when the carriage has made it back to the home position. It will look like a little black horseshoe type sensor and a metal piece on the carriage...

If you think of it from their perspective, they sell you everything you need to run their printer which is what everyone else in the industry does. Mimaki gives you Rasterlink which only runs Mimakis. Roland gives you Versaworks which only runs Rolands. Epson gives you a watered down version of...

Yeah that's how it works unfortunately. The $600 basically upgrades you to full blown Flexi so you will not only get the drivers for the cutter but all of the drivers for almost any machine you can think of.