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Quit buggin' me
Hi all,
need some help, I think my heaters are not working correctly.
vj1304, oem inks, flexi8.6 rip, 7 months use - around 60 or so carts used so far.
Print quality has been going down - seeing what looks like banding in the direction of the head movement.
I can still get an ok print by slowing it down and upping the quality settings but I can see that something is not right.
Did the usual troubleshooting - nozzle check - found one magenta nozzle not firing.
Tried to clear it using - normal - strong - light charge cleaning & a head soak .
No-go on the one nozzle - the rest are ok.
From there I checked the head alignment - all ok.
Did a pf adjust on the intermediate material I use for most temp prints - 1mm out
Set and saved the adjust to media type 1
No change in the print quality - ran the micro adjust up and down during printing (+8 to -8) - no change in the print quality.
Reasons I think it is the heaters.
During printing only the post heater is warm at all - the other 2 are cool to the touch
Settings for the material run are 39pre 32platen & 45post.
Two things that have changed with the heaters:
1. The post heater comes on as soon as I take the printer out of sleep - there are no jobs being sent - don't think it did this before.
2. When I send a file - as soon as the rip ends it starts printing.
Before this quality issue started showing up, if the printer had been idle for a while it would hold the print for a few minutes until the 3 heaters warmed up then start the print.
Now it starts as soon as the file is sent from the rip.
I checked the temperature menu while it is printing and it shows that the pre and platen heaters are within the correct temps but if I stop the print and check by hand they do not feel even a little warm. I'm thinking 32c would not feel warm but 39 should (45 post does).
I have tried controlling the heaters using the media type at the printer and over-riding by way of the flexi8.6 production manager.
No change with the problem.
What should the next step be?
Is there a way to reset the printer back to factory defaults?
(in case a power hiccup or something changed a setting I don't know about)
Could that one clogged nozzle cause the print quality to degrade enough to see?
thanks for reading
wayne k
guam usa
need some help, I think my heaters are not working correctly.
vj1304, oem inks, flexi8.6 rip, 7 months use - around 60 or so carts used so far.
Print quality has been going down - seeing what looks like banding in the direction of the head movement.
I can still get an ok print by slowing it down and upping the quality settings but I can see that something is not right.
Did the usual troubleshooting - nozzle check - found one magenta nozzle not firing.
Tried to clear it using - normal - strong - light charge cleaning & a head soak .
No-go on the one nozzle - the rest are ok.
From there I checked the head alignment - all ok.
Did a pf adjust on the intermediate material I use for most temp prints - 1mm out
Set and saved the adjust to media type 1
No change in the print quality - ran the micro adjust up and down during printing (+8 to -8) - no change in the print quality.
Reasons I think it is the heaters.
During printing only the post heater is warm at all - the other 2 are cool to the touch
Settings for the material run are 39pre 32platen & 45post.
Two things that have changed with the heaters:
1. The post heater comes on as soon as I take the printer out of sleep - there are no jobs being sent - don't think it did this before.
2. When I send a file - as soon as the rip ends it starts printing.
Before this quality issue started showing up, if the printer had been idle for a while it would hold the print for a few minutes until the 3 heaters warmed up then start the print.
Now it starts as soon as the file is sent from the rip.
I checked the temperature menu while it is printing and it shows that the pre and platen heaters are within the correct temps but if I stop the print and check by hand they do not feel even a little warm. I'm thinking 32c would not feel warm but 39 should (45 post does).
I have tried controlling the heaters using the media type at the printer and over-riding by way of the flexi8.6 production manager.
No change with the problem.
What should the next step be?
Is there a way to reset the printer back to factory defaults?
(in case a power hiccup or something changed a setting I don't know about)
Could that one clogged nozzle cause the print quality to degrade enough to see?
thanks for reading
wayne k
guam usa
