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Question New JV100-160
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Solventinkjet
DIY Printer Fixing Guide
I installed one two months ago and she's already gone through 4 full sets of 600ml cartridges. I think she likes it!
Elwood Kinder
New Member
We are having some head issues on a 10 year old JV33 and are thinking of rather than a head replacement, just replacing the whole printer with the JV100-160. Had to replace a head a couple of months ago on another JV33 and the cost difference would be 3X for a new printer but that 3 year warranty would be nice!
Solventinkjet
DIY Printer Fixing Guide
If your tech runs into an issue getting the printer to connect, tell them they need to update the firmware to 3.2! Ran into that little issue on my install. might save you a headache!
Solventinkjet
DIY Printer Fixing Guide
I don't have one in the shop to print right now. If you print the drop position correction pattern and none of the patterns match no matter how far left or right you go, you need to run the service mode drop position to zero out the user one.
Solventinkjet
DIY Printer Fixing Guide
We had issues in the beginning getting the network to work even with Rasterlink. Make sure you have the latest driver installed and the machine is at firmware 3.2 otherwise the network won't work.
Solventinkjet
DIY Printer Fixing Guide
You need to run the service drop position adjustment first. The installing tech should have done it already. The service alignment zeros the user alignment. If it's not zeroed out, you can get patterns that never match.
Enter service mode by holding function 1 and 3 while powering on.
Solventinkjet
DIY Printer Fixing Guide
I'm not allowed to give out the tech manuals for that model unfortunately.
The service mode alignment goes though each resolution and motor speed one at a time. It will print out a pattern similar to the user alignment but there will be no numbers. All of the patterns are the same so you can just pick one to look at. You want the two magenta lines to overlap perfectly. One line is longer than the other. If the longer line needs to move left to overlap with the shorter one, you need to input a positive number. I usually move it by increments of 10 until I get close and then just dial it in from there. If you need to move the longer line right, you need to input a negative number. You will basically be printing the pattern, inputting a number, and then printing again until the lines overlap perfectly. Once you run that alignment for all resolutions and speeds, the user alignment patterns should all be very close to 0 now.
FrankW
New Member
Do you mean "higher than 3.2", or exactly 3.2? The machine I have delivered to a customer has 3.4.1 . It works with Rasterlink only over the network, and if using an USB device server (SEH, we have worked a lot with them), the printer freezes when plugged in (or freezes when booting while connected to the device server). Currently the printer runs with a 15m USB-connection with repeaters every 5m.
We get a feedback from Mimaki that there are some complaints about that, and that it can be that it is an issue with the mainboard version.
Solventinkjet
DIY Printer Fixing Guide
3.2 or higher. I haven't tried to connect it to another RIP yet so that sounds like Mimaki is having issues supporting other RIPs on that machine.
FrankW
New Member
Third party RIP´s are working, but only with USB-Connection directly. We had problems with Mimaki Network connection often, e. g. with TS55-1800.
dudeinthemoon
New Member
Here is a hint for UJV100 owners, I've installed few of them, and everyone has a bug with leaking white inks after a few months of working. You have to tighten the white ink pipe connectors near the circulation pump at least once during the installation. And if you still don't then do it ASAP, there will be leak one day
SLord
New Member
Good day,
We have been the user of this UJV100-160 printer for almost a year.
Firmware 5.2 (the dealer himself sends us the firmware, the firmware from the Mimaki website does not get up), USB connection.
Everything is fine, but there are problems:
1. Magenta (stops printing), we are told "ink defect", they clean the channel and replace the ink. They put a filter, it doesn't help. We are waiting for the next stop, it's good that not often, for the whole time, this happened twice.
2. The ink cans are not easily removable, the mechanism is plastic, we are afraid to break it. Now, to put a new can, lubricate the rubber rings with silicone. We consider the system with banks to be unsuccessful.
PS: RIP RasterLink is a separate topic, but you get used to everything and adapt to everything.
Just yesterday, the dealer sent a letter recalling Magenta ink, leaving only ink with a serial number that starts with 65XXXXXXXX.
We have been the user of this UJV100-160 printer for almost a year.
Firmware 5.2 (the dealer himself sends us the firmware, the firmware from the Mimaki website does not get up), USB connection.
Everything is fine, but there are problems:
1. Magenta (stops printing), we are told "ink defect", they clean the channel and replace the ink. They put a filter, it doesn't help. We are waiting for the next stop, it's good that not often, for the whole time, this happened twice.
2. The ink cans are not easily removable, the mechanism is plastic, we are afraid to break it. Now, to put a new can, lubricate the rubber rings with silicone. We consider the system with banks to be unsuccessful.
PS: RIP RasterLink is a separate topic, but you get used to everything and adapt to everything.
Just yesterday, the dealer sent a letter recalling Magenta ink, leaving only ink with a serial number that starts with 65XXXXXXXX.