JV3 160 printing unwanted lines

All the same color? could be a data issue - not necessarily a data cable issue but the head interpreting the data incorrectly which would probably mean the head is malfunctioning.

 

clean encoder strip maybe?

 

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Doesn't the encoder only tell the Head where it is on the X axis? it doesn't deal with the data being told to the Print Heads to print. I'm thinking this is a data cable or print head issue. But I may be way off.

 

Dirty/defective encoder strips can cause odd print anomalies. I've never seen one quite like this, but it's not impossible.

 

i'm guessing one of your ribbon cables has a damaged or bent tip. turn off, switch off the back, unplug, press the front button four times. take your magenta cable off inspecting inside the print head ports with an led mini flashlight. look at the ends of the cable for bent tips or damage or ink, or not properly seated. because it's one line and not several, printing a quick rectangle, it's probably just one single part of the data ribbon.

 

attached is a pic of what my printer was doing with a loose black ribbon. the issue started out as random 1x2 retangles. then went bizerck.

also attached is a rendering of a data swap. you might be able to utilize this to attempt to isolate or move the issue to a different head.

whatever the case, it is definitely looking like a data issue.

 

I had a similar problem but only one color was appearing from time to time. It was a break in long flat cables from slider board to main board. When a machine is printing chain is moving flat cables along with ink tubes and when problematic part of the cable is triggered usually result in printed line like on your pictures. Try to rearrange cables and ink lines inside a chain.