Cyan in dripping from head Mimaki CV 150 3 years old.

[stxrmxn]

I have cyan ink dripping from my print head.
When i move the carriage to maint position you can see droplets of cyan forming on the head.
Then when printing as the carriage changes direction it occasionaly drops off.
I have cleaned everything, and cant see anything obvious.
Has anybody else had this issue?
Thanks.

 

[hybriddesign]

sadly I think you need a new head

you can pull the dampers and see if maybe one is leaking or there is ink pooled down in the tray there dampers sit in but whenever I’ve had a leaky head eventually I ended up replacing it

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

the title of this thread sounds so wrong....

 

[Gino]

Thought the same thing. Maybe some penicillin will help.

 

[Notarealsignguy]

Maybe captop or wiper? Did you try manually cleaning them?

 

[SignMeUpGraphics]

This happened on our VS540 years ago. Ended up being a ruptured damper. Unfortunately for us it was an expensive fix, as it happened on the metallic channel and it went all over the PCB of the head and fried it. Otherwise, dampers are cheap to replace if that's the case for you.

 

[Solventinkjet]

Start with dampers. They are cheaper and more likely to be the issue.

 

[Solventinkjet]

Edit: not sure why this posted so many times.