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UCJV330 Won't print properly on the 1600mm wide media

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GarryStable12

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Recently purchased UCJV330-160, it has printing on a variety of stocks up to 1370mm wide with no issues, once a 1500 or 1600mm wide media is on we get "ghosting" and printing outside the media, even onto the guides. We let the machine locate width of media (1500 or 1600) and DO NOT ENTER parameters manually in Rasterlink. We have the latest Firmwire, could it be a board internally malfunctioning as we are completely at wits end. Spoilt so much media. Any help from you guys would be greatly apricated. Gaz
 
Smoke_Jaguar

Smoke_Jaguar

Man who touches printers inappropriately.
As weird as it sounds, check your encoder strip, could be a bit of lint, fuzz, ink or something. Seen it a few times and anywhere past the contamination will start printing all broken and fuzzy.
 
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netsol

Premium Subscriber
Smoke-jaguar
do these have a ribbon cable that goes south like on the Roland’s?
certainly there is a test & calibration to be done
 
Smoke_Jaguar

Smoke_Jaguar

Man who touches printers inappropriately.
The fiber link cable can go bad, but you get some very specific codes when that happens, the slider board mostly uses the fiber link and power and some signal wire (sort of like Cat 5 ethernet wire, not many conductors) as opposed to a big flat flex cable. The encoder strip is what I usually see causing this issue and where the ghosting starts tends to be where the blob of ink or whatever is on the encoder strip. The 150 lines per inch are the printer's sanity check and it gets its positional data from that. If it reads wrong, the head loses track fast. When it goes back to home area, it recovers and prints normally again until sliding back to the bad spot. Since it is on the left side, it further reinforces that. Also, might have lines rubbed off. Sometimes the strips get cleaned with alcohol or other solvents that can nuke the little lines of ink.
 
Kemik

Kemik

I sell stickers and sticker accessories.
I stopped using the left guide, it's never worked for me!
I also set the printer to wipe the head more frequently.
 
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cornholio

New Member
Have you tried printing with a lower resolution? There was an issue with a Mimaki way way back... maybe still is...
 
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