White Haus
Not a Newbie
We've been having issues with this thing for last couple of months and I'm getting close to throwing it in the dumpster.
Print quality went from fine for 2 years to super inconsistent and constantly having drop out, ink starvation and contamination, banding, streaking etc.
I replaced captops and did a million air purges a couple months back and it's never been the same. Our nozzle check is now almost back to normal in terms of nozzles firing, but still getting lots of contamination between channels. (You can see the color mixing in the test prints)
We'll get it to a point where it's printing normally then it randomly starts banding and streaking without any real cause.
I've attached edited pictures with some examples as well as how the heads look after they've been parked - I don't think they should have all that ink pooling under heads. I edited the colors in the pics quite a bit to exaggerate the contrast on the streaking but hopefully it helps. It seems like it's only streaking when going from right to left given how much the pattern changes when going from Bi-directional to Uni-directional with the same profile. It's also not consistent across the media - it's usually much worse on left and right edges of the media and almost not there in the center. (That's the real kicker)
Heads and carriage have been cleaned extensively checked for specs, dust etc and there aren't any.
Printer is around 2 years old, only has around 50k sqft on it and has never had any serious head strikes and has been well maintained and only run in a climate controlled environment.
Dealer's answer is to throw a 6k head at it without even seeing it but I'm not super excited about that idea.
Anyone ever run into issues like this with one of these printers?
Thanks in advance.
Print quality went from fine for 2 years to super inconsistent and constantly having drop out, ink starvation and contamination, banding, streaking etc.
I replaced captops and did a million air purges a couple months back and it's never been the same. Our nozzle check is now almost back to normal in terms of nozzles firing, but still getting lots of contamination between channels. (You can see the color mixing in the test prints)
We'll get it to a point where it's printing normally then it randomly starts banding and streaking without any real cause.
I've attached edited pictures with some examples as well as how the heads look after they've been parked - I don't think they should have all that ink pooling under heads. I edited the colors in the pics quite a bit to exaggerate the contrast on the streaking but hopefully it helps. It seems like it's only streaking when going from right to left given how much the pattern changes when going from Bi-directional to Uni-directional with the same profile. It's also not consistent across the media - it's usually much worse on left and right edges of the media and almost not there in the center. (That's the real kicker)
Heads and carriage have been cleaned extensively checked for specs, dust etc and there aren't any.
Printer is around 2 years old, only has around 50k sqft on it and has never had any serious head strikes and has been well maintained and only run in a climate controlled environment.
Dealer's answer is to throw a 6k head at it without even seeing it but I'm not super excited about that idea.
Anyone ever run into issues like this with one of these printers?
Thanks in advance.
