Epson r5070 - anyone got one?

[yannb]

I have the printer in my 1 car garage. It can get extremely hot in there's especially when printing - it always throws a printer internals too hot warning... But never had an issue with it.

Color is still bang on, panels are all perfect in consistency.

Been using the machine for 2 years now? It's everything I wish the HP latex was.


My only complaint about it is I wish I could send jobs / queue them up to an internal HD like the hps allow ... But maybe the next generation will do that.

Regarding job queueing: if you use Onyx and would like to do print spooling, then setup the Onyx print driver to send to the Windows driver of the R5070 instead of directly to its IP. Then in the Windows driver, advanced tab, select ‘spool and print immediately’. This way Onyx finishes its jobs much quicker, and all printing jobs are buffered by the Windows spooler. You can even pause jobs or put the whole spooler on pause prior to printing.

 

[CC-CMYK]

Have anyone heard about the mandatory 3 hour maintenance cycle on the R5070? If you run a full 100ft roll of wallpaper panels with 6-8 passes it usually takes 4 hours. So it will cancel the job after 3 hours for this cleaning cycle and just sit idle without restarting the job. Any knowledge about this setting?
Thanks

When our print has stopped to clean itself it picks right up from where it stopped. It has always stopped between panels when we print murals.

 

[Costaricanprinter]

Yea that's the firmware.

You have to disable the cleaning 3hr cleaning in the printer settings. When enabled the printer won't start a job over 3hrs. This is using onyx, might be different with other RIPS. I still have the cleaning enabled on mine as it finished my prints under 3hrs anyways.


For profiles you download them using Epson Dashboard, Onyx then gets the profiles from Epson Dashboard. There are lots of profiles on Epson dashboard and they all get automatically loaded into onyx once onyx/dashboard are linked together. I'm sure would work similar with Caldera, Caldera should give you an option to import profiles from Epson Dashboard when you add the printer to Caldera

Can you guide me exactly where, I looked in the settings and couldn't find anything where to deactivate the 3 hours cleaning

 

[kingmike67]

Can you guide me exactly where, I looked in the settings and couldn't find anything where to deactivate the 3 hours cleaning

Not sure if you still need this info or not, but you need to do this in Repair mode. Also it does not disable the cleaning, it just allows sending jobs larger than 3 hours

Firmware Update & Printer Settings
1. Check the firmware version of the printer and upgrade it, if necessary.
Following firmware version must be installed:
SureColor R5070: TU30MB or later
SureColor R5070L: TV30MB or later
2. Start the printer in Repair Mode (Use your thumb to cover the top left corner of the screen, and hold down Power and Up (Feed Back) for 15 sec or so. You will see a screen allowing you to confirm booting into repair mode. Press the center area of the screen to accept)
3. Open "Menu" > "Maintenance" > "Repair Menu" > "Custom"
4. Select mode "Custom 2"
5. Press the "OK" button on the top right of the screen and select "Yes" on
the confirmation screen. The printer will automatically turn off.
6. Turn the printer back on. The 3 hour print time limit is now deactivated on the printer.