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Starting to learn that running a print shop that does more printer repair, refurb, and engineering is a tricky prospect. Set up shop mostly to do prints for the local weed industry and am learning just how flaky that can be. Some pretty good clients left who did the smart thing and avoided...

Figured I'd poke my head outside of Mimaki for a printer I am fighting. Got a maintenance code showing and am having a helluva time finding a local tech to reset the flags and get a parts list. Anyone know either a good tech, or a way to get the service program/manual for these? Not a tech with...

===This is going to be a multi-part thread, so the first post will not be all-encompassing. === This is open source information, zero special software needed. It simply allows someone to emulate a chip for duplication, backup or easy transfer. This should not interfere with any printer...

So, I am getting good at finding and fixing up Mimaki JFX's for dirt cheap. Sold a couple of them and made a good chunk of them. Are they worth running for printing though? We can run them dirt cheap (most we've ever paid for a JFX200 was $8K, and we do all repairs, mods and maintenance...

Tried scrolling through menus, Summa Cutter Control and looking at the manual to no avail. Just wanting the cutter to park the head without pulling back the sheet after it finishes. When using a cut that lets stickers and such fall out, the leftover webbing gets caught up in the rollers and all...

I think I might have a problem... Or, something really cool. 2/3 running, time to revive my EX. Or, based on the board configuration, the JFX250-2513. Uses 2 2 head control boards. Figured they would've gone all fancy and made a 3 head board or something. Does that mean the JFX600 has 8 head...

When Mimaki talks about big announcements on new printers, I learning to be disappointed and/or confused. Like when they took a JV300 and put different colored plastics and a slightly modified parameter set on it and called it a DTF printer. Didn't even bother going to a modern printhead. The...

After acquiring a JFX200-2513 for a stellar $2500, I got a taste for the big flatbeds. Minor strike damage on the heads, but a quick and easy restoration that was printing within a day. Such glorious times. Sheets of plywood, drywall, framed canvas, coroplast, all sorts of big things to print...

Anyone know of a freight company that can deliver something like a JFX500? The things look like a total behemoth to handle, but looking to move one in to print massive stupid things. Looks like they originally came in 2 parts. The one we're wanting moved is already assembled.

After doing lots of homework on the hundreds of dirt-cheap Chinese DTF, solvent and UV printers flooding the market, I figured there had to be some basic ecosystem to them. Most of these printers are based on commodity parts, off-the shelf printheads and tend to share a vast array of parts...

Ok, so I wanted to try DTF for myself, since it is the hot new thing. I run mostly Mimaki gear at my shop, but their new TxF300-75 is about $24,000 too much for my blood. So, time to look around for a better solution. For specs, I want 17" width, roll handling, 6+ ink channels, Epson heads...

My bad.

Figured it's worth a shot, since as far as I know there are no Mimaki techs in the state. Not certified, but been working on Mimaki, Mutoh and Epson stuff for quite a while. Lots of experience with UV as well as general automation systems, PLC's and systems like that. Mostly been doing freelance...

Just wondering if anyone has seen these in the wild yet? Seems pricing is still listed as TBB (but they show in stock and a 5-star rating, impressive). Not a lot to go on from the videos they've released recently and the spec sheet only goes into so much detail. If I were to guess, they seem to...

As the title says, printheads are all unrecoverable and am in the process of tearing this guy down. Happy to ship parts as needed and can pull most things. I have a good portion of the control boards all removed and ready to go. Everything functioned, just the head issue, so tons of good parts...

Selling off some surplus printers to make room other stuff. Already running 2x 6042MKIIs and they're enough maintenance on their own. I have a rough condition UJF-6042 MK1 that needs a new head and a thorough cleaning and a good deal of work. Might just be best as a parts printer, total project...

Ended up landing a CJV150 and it sat a good two years without maintenance cycles and power off. Printer is in AMAZING shape, all the drip pads are clean and the thing apparently only had a couple hundred hours of use. No signs of head strikes, ink appears to be liquid in the lines still, carts...

Been wracking my brain on one of my MKII's and can't figure the head issue out. Have a sense it might be a head failure. New cap, new damper, full flushing, did nozzle flow check with flushing solvent and had flow from all nozzles. Emptied out the LC channel next to it and it refills and cleans...

Snagged a nice used cutter and am getting the thing dialed in. Loving the tangential and mostly been problem free. The Cutter Control workflow seemed to take some getting used to, but I am really liking it overall. Documentation is a bit lacking on these, but the standard user manual is pretty...

Got a fun one that's been haunting me for a while. It pops up randomly at times, so not too easy to pin down. Guaranteed error if you do a print cleaning cycle with just head 2 selected and will occasionally pop up on a supply ink/overflow error. Error 90d. Service manual states: 1. Check the...