Streaks Around Design

[Joanne Kline]

I have a Mimaki CJV30-130. I am getting vertical stripes on the top, bottom & in front of my design. Stripes are in all 4 colors. I just replaced 4 expired ink cartridges (factory SS21 which I always use) after running expired cartridges for a couple weeks.
My test print is good. My print head looks clean. I have installed a new wiper blade. I switched media but get the same result on sign vinyl & fabric vinyl. I can't figure what's causing this. Thank you in advance for any suggestions to get rid of these stripes!

 

[Gino]

Wow, that's weird. Never saw that one, before. Good luck.

 

[flyplainsdrifta]

encoder possibly? ive seen something sort of similar to this before on my roland. cant be positive though. just a thought.

 

[Joanne Kline]

encoder possibly? ive seen something sort of similar to this before on my roland. cant be positive though. just a thought.

encoder possibly? ive seen something sort of similar to this before on my roland. cant be positive though. just a thought.

encoder possibly? ive seen something sort of similar to this before on my roland. cant be positive though. just a thought.

I've cleaned the encoder strip & it's still printing the stripes. Is there anything else I can check with encoder?

 

[BIG EASY DOES IT]

If not the encoder strip it could be the encoder sensor that is bad. Not sure how you would check that besides just replacing it.

 

[Christian @ Visual Graphx]

What's weird is it is not spraying on to the images themselves it appears

 

[Superior_Adam]

Could it be head strike or the head slightly rubbing on the substrate? I have never seen it look like that before just a thought.

 

[iPrintStuff]

Head strike would mean horizontal stripes, these are vertical. Hopefully they get this sorted in case I ever run into this problem lol

 

[hand851]

Replace encoder, reader or both are bad. That IS NOT head strike.

 

[Gino]

But....... if this was the encoder anything, wouldn't the problem be on the printed images, also ?? Seems there is some sorta information transfer taking place which does not belong there. More like some communications problem.

How does it cut ??

 

[Joanne Kline]

But....... if this was the encoder anything, wouldn't the problem be on the printed images, also ?? Seems there is some sorta information transfer taking place which does not belong there. More like some communications problem.

How does it cut ??

Cutting is good - just these stripes. The stripes are always in the same place. Above, below and in front of design - never behind the design.

 

[Joanne Kline]

Could it be head strike or the head slightly rubbing on the substrate? I have never seen it look like that before just a thought.

Could it be head strike or the head slightly rubbing on the substrate? I have never seen it look like that before just a thought.

The head rubbing on substrate makes sense. I'm not sure if I can adjust that or how to do it but I'd like to give it a try. Any pointers on how to do that?

 

[equippaint]

It doesnt look like the head rubbing to me. Gino has a good point. Swap out the printer cable and see what happens.
Did it just start doing this? Has it ever printed right for you?

 

[Joanne Kline]

It doesnt look like the head rubbing to me. Gino has a good point. Swap out the printer cable and see what happens.
Did it just start doing this? Has it ever printed right for you?

 

[Joanne Kline]

Yes - just started doing this. It was printing fine until the stripes appeared. I'll try the printer cable.

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

Doesnt look like head strikes or encoder. Head strikes are streaky, encoder would shift everything.. The colors are too perfect and look like a data or communications problem cause they look pixelated

 

[Joanne Kline]

Thank you. All the info has been so helpful in narrowing it down & so far it sounds like it must be a data or communications problem. Any suggestions besides switching the printer cable?

 

[Gino]

• Turn everything off and reboot it all.
• Is this a dedicated computer ??
• How full is your que ??
• How full is your ripping program ??
• When's the last time you cleaned house where your software is located ??

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

Do what Gino said.. but also replace your data communications cable. (USB or CAT5 cable)

 

[iPrintStuff]

This may be a very silly question but have you tried a different file that worked before? Had a quick scan though the replies and you haven’t explicitly stated it’s not only this artwork lol.

Besides that, try switching the USB cable that goes from the computer to the machine, I’ve seen that fix a few issues before and this definitely looks like a data issue.