Mutoh gurus can U help

Keep in mind that I do not know nothing about mutoh printers, but I have the maint. manual and I can follow inst to the letter, I'm also mechanically inclined and have electronics experience and test equipment.

Do the cap station MUST be working correctly so the printer can print?

I got ink all the way to the dampers using a syringe, but the printer won't print, I ran several cleaning powerful cycles and nothing happens, I see no ink going to the waste bottle, the little lines are empty.

will this cause the printer to not print?

What do I need to replace or troubleshoot, you guys with experience in this printers already went thur this, please help so I don't have to re-invent the wheel.

Thank you.

 

Hi,

In regards to the e-mail, yes I did received,and yes I have the maint manual.

As to the picture with a tubing "pump", I tried and I can get the ink to flow thru the print heads on none of the two,....
So the cap station in not sealing the printhead, I'd tried adjustin and no luck.

other recommendations.

thank you all

 

I called calgrahp earlier today, and they quote $77 for the capping station, is it the same as the maintenance station?

 

Ok, I will order the maint station tomorrow morning, thanks all...but
I understand that I should be able to print even without a maintenance station, but i can't...
the dampers are filled with ink, I'd fille'm using a tubing sucking from underneat the each damper, the ink lines are filled and no apparent air bubles in it, any ideas why doesn't print.

thanks

 

I can't print a nozzle check, the dampers are filled, however I will order a set and replace'em, they seem kind of loose were they meet the printhead... the only thing left would be the heads (i guess) but i shouldn't be able to power clean'em until i got the maint station, tomorrow i will do the lint free cloth cleaning from under the heads and see what happens.

thank you all

 

Ok,

I got the maint station installed now I will do couple of power cleaningsand follow Derf's inst...

 

ok, I got the color to print, i can print black with a mix of CMY, I can't get ink thru the black head, the damper is full.
there seem to be no air leaks because the ink line and damper keeps the ink, if there was an air leak i would loose the ink on the line correct?...

The guy i'd bought it from sent me and old printhead but I don't have the head rank, and the head rank is not written on the flat cable, can the head rank number be retrieved some how, i wish that mutoh made this printer to automatically recognise the head ranks.

any suggestions?