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Right now Mimaki has some awesome specials on almost their whole line of printers. You could get a brand new 64" printer for $10,995 + shipping, install etc. The price is all up to your local dealer and you of course but I figured you would want to know. Mimaki is a well known name brand and has...

Seeing that it is so new, everything I mentioned above still applies but none of those items should have failed so early. You should have a 1 year warranty. I would have them come out and fix it. I have never seen such bad contamination on a printer that was less than a year old. Either...

Although it is possible that what SW suggested might fix the problem temporarily (which I doubt), it is just a band aid and doesn't fix the reason it failed in the first place. You will end up right back at this point after some time. How old is the machine? New, used?

It's called cross contamination. Usually the cause is the cap top is not draining fast enough and leaves ink in the cap top. This ink then wicks up into the head. It also usually means that the dampers are failing/too weak to hold the correct pressure. I would take the dampers off, take the...

I would hook the syringe directly up to the cap top tube and pull from there. This will tell you if the cap is sealing correctly and it should pull the ink down through the system fairly easy. Depending on the size of syringe you are using, you should be able to see the ink flow through the...

What's the model? Are you just pulling air on the cyan or do you feel back pressure on the syringe? Double check that your cartridge has ink in it. Sometimes it doesn't flag the printer and that would cause this issue. Let us know the model and we can help more.

I am willing to bet the machine has recognized you are tricking it and is emptying your ink as a punishment. It sounds far fetched but Roland did it years back as well.

You mean Servo Board. The Servo board runs the motors. In general motor errors are usually caused by physical issues and/or the encoder system is malfunctioning. What error are you getting?

Something is blowing those fuses and it's probably a crooked, dirty or damaged cable somewhere along the way. The main reason fuses blow is because of a short in the system. The next most common way they blow is that you either worked with the machine plugged in or did not discharge the machine...

Good to hear you are up and running! The .146% is just the amount the machine compensated for what it read and what it expected to read. If the number is too high, it fails to complete.

I saw this after I responded. If the line is consistently in the same place, you need to clean your encoder strip or replace it.

Joe House is getting you on the right track. Your media is buckling which causes the issue you are having. When the media buckles, the ink hit's those spots sooner than it is supposed to which makes a pattern that looks like a combination of ink drop out and bad alignments. Heat settings that...

It's under the "Head Adjust" menu and you should do all of the alignments in there and in order for the best results. Just do the first alignment that pops up and when you are done with that one, scroll down to the next one and continue until all of the adjustments have been done. The one you...

The pack-end sensor could be broken. It's the sensor that detects if a cartridge is in place. Take the cartridge out and look in there with a flashlight. Now compare it to one that is working. You should be able to tell if there is damage. It's also possible that there is some sort of debris...

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Call Flexi or your local Flexi dealer. They will have trial activation codes you can use to try it out.

At some point around 3 years ago Epson started messing with the circuit boards on these heads. Unfortunately there is no small format DX5 head that will work properly out of the box on a large format printer. There are little decoders you can buy in China that work around the issue but I don't...

The dreaded nickle and dime phase! If the sensor doesn't fix the issue, I would be very surprised. Other than the sensor and encoder being bad the only thing it could be is electrical and that will get expensive.

Error 30 is a general operation error that could mean many things but in your case it most likely means that 1 or more of your cartridges are either empty or near empty. The machine will not fill if there is not enough ink in the cartridge and give error 30 to let you know something's up.

Bi-Directional alignment doesn't do anything for banding issues. If the banding is only happening in one color, it's most likely missing nozzles. How does your nozzle check look?