Vinylman
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I need the help of someone here on this site:
Here I sit on a Sunday afternoon with a heavy heart, and a daunting task ahead of me.
Please bear with me as I attempt to bring you all up to speed and also to clarify how you might help if you feel so lead.
About 2 ½ years ago a friend of mine was diagnosed with colon cancer. His name is Mike. Mike is in his early 40's, has a wife and two sons ages 17, 21.
Not so dissimilar to many who frequent this forum.
After successful surgery and chemo treatments Mike was in remission.
Then a year and a half ago, during routine follow up with the doctors, they found that the cancer had come back and attacked Mikes liver.
Mike was a school teacher with one of the most remarkable gifts of reaching young teen kids, and role modeling Genuine Christian faith and living.
Mike has been a hard worker most of his adult life, and has built a small but steady wholesale digital printing business to assist his families finances while working full time in a small Christian school environment. Needless to say the extra money from Mikes wholesale banner printing business has been critical to his family.
Here is where the story shifts. After a valiant two year battle, six to seven months ago, I could see Mikes health was slipping away, and I approached he and his wife Sandy about how I might help them. Long story short I have been doing more and more of his printing projects for him as his health has slowly worsened.
This past Tuesday Mike and his wife flew to Philadelphia to have the Oncologists evaluate the last round of radiation, and how it has effected Mikes prognosis.
The news was NOT good.
Yesterday, Sandy called and asked for prayer. The doctors have sent Mike home to die. My heart aches right now, but this is not about me. It is about how, sometimes we are offered extraordinary opportunities to touch another persons life in a positive way. Mike has spent his life helping others, and now in some very small way I would like to help Mike and his family.
Here is where I need your help.
Mike has two digital printers that have not been used very much over the last several months, and as such, they will need maintenance in order that they can be sold to pay off notes that are hanging over the heads of my friend and his family.
One is a Mutoh PrismJet Extra SDMP38J
The other is a Roland SolJet SJ-600.
I have had some experience with the Roland printer { I rebuilt a CJ-500 about a year ago} but the Mutoh is foreign to me.
I have an almost new Mimaki, and so I have lost the everyday hands on skills necessary to effectively restore Mikes printers. I believe that with some outside help I can get these printers working correctly.
I began working on the Roland two weeks ago, and the print quality right now is way below average. I need to flush the entire system, and perhaps replace the print heads. I am not sure yet.
I want to get these machines flushed and cleaned, and prepared for sale. And I am well aware that until I can get these printers running within their capabilities that they are more of a liability to Mike and his family than they are an asset.
The family has no money, so I am willing to do all the maintenance work at no charge.
Where I could use your help, is having access to a knowledge base regarding how to get into the service modes on these two different printers, and any other help as to what steps and in what order to take so I can help my friend in his hour of need.
I will be glad to pay for any phone calls that are necessary to properly communicate back and forth with my questions, I just need the folks who have first hand knowledge { perhaps a trained tech} that would be able to help me do this correctly.
Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.
Respectfully,
Bob Cole
Here I sit on a Sunday afternoon with a heavy heart, and a daunting task ahead of me.
Please bear with me as I attempt to bring you all up to speed and also to clarify how you might help if you feel so lead.
About 2 ½ years ago a friend of mine was diagnosed with colon cancer. His name is Mike. Mike is in his early 40's, has a wife and two sons ages 17, 21.
Not so dissimilar to many who frequent this forum.
After successful surgery and chemo treatments Mike was in remission.
Then a year and a half ago, during routine follow up with the doctors, they found that the cancer had come back and attacked Mikes liver.
Mike was a school teacher with one of the most remarkable gifts of reaching young teen kids, and role modeling Genuine Christian faith and living.
Mike has been a hard worker most of his adult life, and has built a small but steady wholesale digital printing business to assist his families finances while working full time in a small Christian school environment. Needless to say the extra money from Mikes wholesale banner printing business has been critical to his family.
Here is where the story shifts. After a valiant two year battle, six to seven months ago, I could see Mikes health was slipping away, and I approached he and his wife Sandy about how I might help them. Long story short I have been doing more and more of his printing projects for him as his health has slowly worsened.
This past Tuesday Mike and his wife flew to Philadelphia to have the Oncologists evaluate the last round of radiation, and how it has effected Mikes prognosis.
The news was NOT good.
Yesterday, Sandy called and asked for prayer. The doctors have sent Mike home to die. My heart aches right now, but this is not about me. It is about how, sometimes we are offered extraordinary opportunities to touch another persons life in a positive way. Mike has spent his life helping others, and now in some very small way I would like to help Mike and his family.
Here is where I need your help.
Mike has two digital printers that have not been used very much over the last several months, and as such, they will need maintenance in order that they can be sold to pay off notes that are hanging over the heads of my friend and his family.
One is a Mutoh PrismJet Extra SDMP38J
The other is a Roland SolJet SJ-600.
I have had some experience with the Roland printer { I rebuilt a CJ-500 about a year ago} but the Mutoh is foreign to me.
I have an almost new Mimaki, and so I have lost the everyday hands on skills necessary to effectively restore Mikes printers. I believe that with some outside help I can get these printers working correctly.
I began working on the Roland two weeks ago, and the print quality right now is way below average. I need to flush the entire system, and perhaps replace the print heads. I am not sure yet.
I want to get these machines flushed and cleaned, and prepared for sale. And I am well aware that until I can get these printers running within their capabilities that they are more of a liability to Mike and his family than they are an asset.
The family has no money, so I am willing to do all the maintenance work at no charge.
Where I could use your help, is having access to a knowledge base regarding how to get into the service modes on these two different printers, and any other help as to what steps and in what order to take so I can help my friend in his hour of need.
I will be glad to pay for any phone calls that are necessary to properly communicate back and forth with my questions, I just need the folks who have first hand knowledge { perhaps a trained tech} that would be able to help me do this correctly.
Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.
Respectfully,
Bob Cole
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