hi kids ! I have a JV2-160 that has been converted to solvent using the TechInk Solvent system. I don't know if you guys are all still here or still have your printers relevant to this post or not but what the heck.
Someone may stumble over this one day !
We had real issues getting ours going due to the age of it of course and I really get sick of hearing "oh, one of those old things" hahahaha .... yes the heads are still available and they run on the same principles as the new ones do, but without massive lease payments, service contracts, and horrendous amounts of money for a head change.
We had to get an upgrade for the RIP first off so it would run in Win7, chose Photoprint version 6 point sumfin. Got this from CIELAB in Austalia for about $950 as an upgrade to our existing earlier version. Trying to run the existing RIP with an old pooter with Win 2000 was absolutely hopeless. Too much confusion and waaaaay too many conflicts caused us headache after headache. We got a tower pooter that still had a printer port and installed Win7, the new RIP and happy daze !
This gives you the ability to build your own ICC profiles to suit the different substrates. The main thing is to limit the ink drops and this is done EASILY following the prompts on the screen and some printouts.
The next step (haven't done it yet) is to set up a photospectrometer to do <insert foreign language here> whatever it does. I have the unit, but haven't found the need to get that particular with it
I am happy with the results of the ink drops being limited and it's a bit of fun to create the new ones. I will probably have fantastic results when I figure out the photospectro thingy
Good luck to you !