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Yes, my CJV30 will do the same thing if I'm not careful to avoid it. The front edge of the roll media can catch in one of the channels on the platen, causing it to dig in and rise up. Nasty consequences. I print everything with the head in high position, to avoid contact when printing.

The tech is right. The second cart is just a reserve for when the first one runs out. They are both joined by a T section. FWIW, I have a bulk ink system and have been running with only 4 carts for about 4 years now. The second slots have brand new, empty, refillable carts in them. I just keep...

The nozzles are never 100% clogged. When you had the head out, did you flush it (inject cleaning fluid into it)? If you have the right tubing, you can connect from syringe onto head nipples and push fluid through the head (slowly! carefully!) It's the same size tubing that runs through the...

It sounds like you should check your cap top is sealing air tight, check the 2 tubes underneath are connected properly to the cap and the pump, the 3rd hole is plugged, check that the head is parking onto the cap properly. Dropping the head to low position may help get a stronger seal. If...

When you do your ink fill/cleanings, do you see fresh ink pooling in the cap top? (Before it gets drawn out by the pump). You can see it when the head moves off to perform it's first head wipe. The cap should be about half full of ink. You should also get a good amount of ink on the wiper. This...

Bandaid Solution.

Something fishy going on with that (those) tiff file(s). Embedded layers/ gradient masks/other insidious PS type doin's. Who uses tiff? Jpeg is fine - and it comes with everything flattened. But the easy workaround for this, if I needed it, (and I have the exact same setup as you - SL8 with...

Well, I know with SL8, the gradients all get transformed from CMYK to RGB. To counter this, I only use RGB colours from my palette for gradients. If you need to, mix and add a new colour in RGB, to match the CMYK colour. Not sure if it's still relevant in whatever your latest version is.

I think the main thing you are m issing here is that it's only 1000mm wide. So, you'll have to have all your 1370 rolls ordered cut down to fit. And you won't be able to print an 8x4 sign. Give it a miss and get a CJV30-130 instead.

Hate what too? Win 10 or SL 10? Or both? (probably) The thing with Signlab is, you have to set up your toolbars and pallettes to suit you. Then save them as default. The rest is easy. Learn your keyboard and mouse shortcuts. Having said that, I'm totally happy with SL v8, so I don't know about...

I doubt it. Both times for us the slider board and printhead were fine, just those 2 caps blew. One time when we blew the mainboard,I was installing a head decoder card and we plugged the ribbon cable in upside down! Another time I blame static or something, we were running a lot of banner...

And get new ribbon cables to replace the ones from slider board to head. And be careful when plugging them in, they are hard to align and easily damaged, throwing up other errors just for fun.

We fixed it ourselves - both times was the same capacitors (or transistors?) that blew. My brother is pretty good a diagnosing and fixing these things. If you have the service manual, it shows how to test the test points on the mainboard. If you get low resistance readings on a couple of TP's...

So, when you had your short, I presume then the old head didn't print either after that. As in, the same scenario as you have now with the new head in? I would say it sounds like the main board. I'm speaking from experience - I've blown and fixed my mainboard twice now (CJV30-130). The simpler...

When you do a cleaning, does ink come through the head into the capping station? Can you do a test print? Even if nothing comes out of the head, does it actually do the procedure? Likewise, can you send a file to print and the machine works as usual?

That's a great looking test print. Suggests it's not ink/plumbing related. More likely electrical: Static, Electrical connections, ribbon cables, printhead failing, possibly encoder strip dirty. If you're up for it (learning how to do it properly)_, you could unplug, check and re-connect the...

This got me thinking. I once worked out a way to get the extended characters to show in SignLab 8. It's a weird, complicated, hidden, secret, easter eggy type of hack that no-one knows about. I forgot how to do it for years, but just worked it out again! Here's the combo: 1. Click A to get...

You don't need to switch to 8 color, or 6 color. You probably just need better control of your color management. I have the same machine running similar to eco solvent inks (3rd party Jetbest). I make my own profiles, but you may be able to get someone to do that for you. Then you'll get as good...

I would guess that the head isn't seated properly. It's worth checking by popping it out then back in again. They are a tight snug fit and need to basically click down into place.

All good mate, sounds like he's onto it.