Any Help Appreciated - Mutoh 1204

[Hot Vinyl]

I am having issues with my Mutoh 1204. I just replaced the head about 3 weeks ago and it was working great again. Then on Thursday I noticed that my black had very minimal spots missing but figured I would do a cleaning the next day. I did several cleanings and my black got worse then I lost my magenta. As I was changing my cartridge out the whole printer went dead. It would not come back on. Then I took the power up panel off and tried it and it had power. Then the problem was it said magenta was out. I tried changing it and then got an kcmy s/c read error. I noticed that the id panel inside for the magenta was broken so I changed that out. I only changed out the magenta one though. I still am getting the kcmy s/c read error. I did change out the panel for the colors behind that sites right above the cartridges. I am wondering if there is any fix to this.

I also checked all cables and then are secure and pushed in. Is there something else I can check?

I was using bulk inks should I get original OEM inks and try to reset?

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Please help a lady out.

Thank you guys.

 

[heyskull]

Capping station problem.
Easiest thing to do is replace the complete maintenance station especially if the head is new.

SC

 

[heyskull]

Also the read error could be a problem with the chip readers. These are a common failure and I have replaced loads on mine.

SC

 

[Hot Vinyl]

Thanks for your response. With the readers so you have to replace all 4 at the same time? I only replaced the magenta. Didn't see anything wrong with the others.