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  1. Banner material buckling causing head strikes

    I have a 40'x5' banner to print on our valuejet 1604. I have never used full size material in this machine(1625mm) but this time because of the depth I have had to. On printing the material is rising slightly and causing head strikes!! I have tried adjusting the heaters but nothing helps. I am...
  2. JV3-160S Head Cable order ASAP HELP!!!!!

    Hi guys.... I have a 160s 3 print heads,, cmyk lc lm ...... i just put new 3 new heads in and i forgot to mark the order the head cables go in.. please need asap help so i can get it back up and running cant find anything on the net
  3. Can I cancel the "ink not filled" message SP-540V...?

    I replaced a head today on my Roland SP-540V, now the display screen keeps saying 'Ink not filled', and has blown thru a crap load of ink... I temporarily stopped it by turning the printer off... I remember this now (after it is too late) from the last head replacement and techs told me to...
  4. Gerber Edge 2 For sale - Parts or trade in - Needs head. 650.00

    Selling a Gerber Edge 8,457 minutes. Needs new head. CPU and 2 axis boards work well, all motors, foil clutch, keypad etc. work. Power supply voltage checked and working - ( asking price worth just his part). Cosmetics: Some damage to front plastic area; packing residue on side panel. -...
  5. Question Storing and re-use print head

    Hello all! Just arrived my new DX6 Print Head for my 3 y.o. VS-640. I 've decided to replace the print head beacause light cyan and metallic had some overspraying and I use the printer for high resolution photo and art prints. So, I want to ask, is it possible to keep the old (and not very...
  6. Mutoh vj 1604 print head trouble

    Hi everyone, I'm Ludo from New Caledonia and I'm having some trouble with my print head on my Mutoh VJ 1604, since this one isn't working properly, it does some black stripes all over the width of the machine... Anyone with me on this one?!!
  7. VS-640 HELP - Ink Leaking from Head

    Hi, My VS-640 has light cyan ink dripping from the head. It is a consistent drip. Ive replaced the cap top and wipers and did manual cleaning to confirm there is nothing causing the ink to drop like a wick draws fluid. Im thinking it is the damper, but would only 1/2 of a damper go? Ive...
  8. 1324 printhead position

    WOuld like to know if the print head should be in the down position when placing the printer into sleep mode. I know it will go through cleaning cycles during the night, but my concern is the print head drying in the upward position. I always turn the printer off when finished at the end of the...
  9. HELP! Missing print head

    XJ 540 Printed all day long yesterday and had perfect nozzle test prints, not a single missing nozzle. Was setting up to print other side of 48' trailer wrap and test print was missing a ton of black nozzles and a lot of cyan. We did a manual clean, it got worse. We did a medium clean and...
  10. DX4 Printhead from China

    After thinking for a while about keeping older printer as a back up, i think i will do it. Would have to replace 1 print head there, just because few CYAN nozzles are not firing. Just wondering, did anyone recently or at all got a dx4 head from china & how did it work/what experience you had...
  11. replacing roland vp540 head

    I'm going to be placing my cyan print head real soon and was wondering if there was any other things I should replace while I have it apart? thanks for any advice.
  12. Oki (Seiko) w-64s print head question

    I've got an issue with my Y printhead (assuming its the damper in the head), I've tried soaking it for a couple hours in NMP fluid and my Y ink is still dropping out. It started with Air in the Y line, replaced multiple "o"rings and have finally got the line sealed up and still having issues...
  13. Mimaki JV33 Carriage Motor

    Hi Our JV33 has become very noisy over the past 2 weeks when the head carriage goes back and forth. I have spoken to an engineer who gave me a price for a new motor, but thought I'd check with other JV33 users before I spend a bunch more money on it. I just spent over $2.5k on a new head after...
  14. Spots of Black

    Last week I had an issue of some of one part of the black and part of the cyan went blocked and wasnt printing correctly. I worked out that the pump wasn't pulling through, so I removed the complete station and cleaned the pump and fitted a new cap. This seemed to cure the issue, until I came in...
  15. Weird head behavior - JV3-250SP

    Multiple issues happening at the same time, including overspray in the cyan, but the one I really need to tackle is the head carriage gradually moving further and further to the left. Printing in unidirectional, 360x540, 6-pass and 720x1440 16-pass Can't reproduce issue with data cable swap...
  16. Graphtec FC2200-90 Head

    I need a head for a Graphtec 2200-90EX. if you have a graphtec that doesn't work send me a pictuer of the head and If it's right I'll buy it... Thanks, Todd 270-970-2205
  17. JV33 - Gap between head and cap

    Hi to all! I have a JV33 printer that had a gap between head and cap when I turn off the printer. There is no gap when the printer is on Thanks in advance
  18. What do you do with this happens?

    This morning was running banners for a school and inside the banner material was this: It actually caught the head after it had printed in it a few times, stopped the machine and gave an error. I went and looked on the back side of the Mutoh and it's wound in the roll: I tried unrolling it...
  19. Am I loosing my head?

    Catchy title right? So for the passed month or so my machine barely prints yellow. Sometimes it doesn't spray yellow at all. After I do a heavy clean it sprays 60% and then after another cleans it gets better and only after the third heavy clean does it spray properly. Is this a sign that the...
  20. Issue after install epson dx4 on rockhopper 3!!

    Hello everyone!!! After instal on a CMYKLcLm 2 new heads (the 3rd of LcLm didndt change cause i have profiles that prints ok with 2 heads but is there the 3rd head) had those issues!!! I make about 15 cleanings nothing happen.. Black stripes in the whole printing also as you can see on...
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