Another mutoh issue, waste tank filled up overnight

[kevint2005]

Any ideas on why my ink waste tank filled up overnight and drained my freakin black and magenta cartridges? The printer is a Mutoh Falcon 62. Yesterday I did the cleaning procedure on it, turned it off and awoke this morning to my waste tank overflowing and a constant dripping from one of the lines going to the tank.

Seems like if its not one thing it's another...

 

[heyskull]

More than likely the cap inner is touching the print head and making it wick the ink through the head.
If I remember the black and magenta are on the same head so this is probably the issue.

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[Solventinkjet]

That's a common issue with that model. The two main reasons it happens is a bad design on the capping station and submerged waste ink lines. If your cap top does not have a wire mesh holding the sponges down, the sponge swelled up and touched the bottom of the print head which created a wicking effect. This pulls the ink through the whole system and into the tank. I would replace the cap top with a new one if this is the case.

Also, check the waste tubes and make sure they are not submerged in the waste tank. If they get submerged, it creates a siphon effect and pulls all of the ink down to the waste tank.

 

[kevint2005]

Thanks guys for the quick responses! The cap station does still have the wire mesh that's supposed hold the sponges down. I'm pretty new to this stuff but i've read a lot here lately and one of the things i've noticed from what i've read is this printer has 2 head positions, if i raised it to the higher position before leaving it sit overnight, would that possibly help this issue?