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jv3 acting strange today

gabagoo

New Member
It can only be because I am leaving tomorrow for a weeks holiday.

I had a pump changed last week by a service technician for the magenta and now it works fine.
Today I have printed 3 or 4 jobs and everything looked fine...I then went for lunch and I was in the middle of sending a large bitmap file so since it was still ripping I put the printer into local mode until I returned and then hit remote, and it did it's thing. Print looked fine to me.
Now I just started a job and the colour is black and a gold. It looked awful so i stopped and did a print check and half my yellow nozzles failed to print.
I wonder how that coluld have happened so fast after printing other jobs with no issues.

I ran a 30 minute nozzle wash and it seems ok although when I do the print test I seem to be finding it harder and harder to see the actual yellow bars and wonder if it always has been this way or is it starving for ink. Yellow is tough to see anyhow but I never recalled it being this tough...maybe it is my eyes....

Could something have happened when the tech was here changing the magenta pump?

As I mentioned in an earlier post I have now 5 inks sitting at the 1 level and some have been this way for over a week and I still have not gotten an ink low warning on any of them...this is a concern to me as well.

I could put 5 new cartridges in I suppose just in case the low ink indicator is not working...

What you think?
 

ChicagoGraphics

New Member
You might want to put in new cartridges in, before I went to a bulk system I had ink in some cartridges that said 15% left, did a bunch of printing and said the same then it just went empty. That's what might of happened to your yellow.
 

JERHEMI

New Member
You might want to put in new cartridges in, before I went to a bulk system I had ink in some cartridges that said 15% left, did a bunch of printing and said the same then it just went empty. That's what might of happened to your yellow.

This! Happened to me not too long ago!
 

gabagoo

New Member
So you think the warning is not functioning? I mean it is still printing with yellow and after the nozzle wash it looks fine.

I am now concerned with the print test... I wish I had saved some old ones to see if indeed it is not printing properly or if it is simply my vision getting worse. lol
 
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JERHEMI

New Member
So you think the warning is not functioning? I mean it is still printing with yellow and after the nozzle wash it looks fine.

I am now concerned with the print test... I wish I had saved some old ones to see if indeed it is not printing properly or if it is simply my wision getting worse. lol

That's what confused me too...the warning didn't happen or I never heard it. For me the print looked very faded, almost a washed out look to it. I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me! Then I swapped out the ink then with every pass the color came back to what it should be and I realized I wasn't going nuts! It was weird! lol
 
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