SlightlyChilled
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What do you do with your printer over a long weekend or if you are going on vacation??????
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What to do over a long weekend
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Gino
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Depends on the printer you have. We turn all of ours off all the time. It doesn't hurt a thing. Lately, it's not turning them off that we're worried about, but giving them a break. We're backed up to the point I'm coming and staying til about 2 or 3 am and looking to hire someone to babysit our printers at night to get the projects out on time.
Typestries
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LOL, G, you're doing the same thing I am right now. S101'ing and babysitting on the second shiftola.
TheSnowman
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I've gone 10 days before I think. It wasn't real pretty when I got back...but I just cleaned it as best I could before leaving, and as good as I could when I got back. I'm not sure what else you can do unless you can teach someone who is willing to come do it for you.
My Mimaki Tech that installed everything for me said "Have your paper boy do it" when he was telling me how important daily cleanings were and I mentioned being gone.
My Mimaki Tech that installed everything for me said "Have your paper boy do it" when he was telling me how important daily cleanings were and I mentioned being gone.
I don't understand. Are you supposed to do something special? At first I thought the question was a joke.
We have had ours for two years, but I guess we have never gone longer than a couple of days without using it. I never considered that it would be an issue at all. Typically when I have gone on vacation, I still have employees running the shop, now with our much smaller crew I guess that might be an issue (if we ever take a vacation again).
Has anyone here had any problems with their Mutoh?
We have had ours for two years, but I guess we have never gone longer than a couple of days without using it. I never considered that it would be an issue at all. Typically when I have gone on vacation, I still have employees running the shop, now with our much smaller crew I guess that might be an issue (if we ever take a vacation again).
Has anyone here had any problems with their Mutoh?
Compilla
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SlightlyChilled
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I dont have it yet I hope this weekend a Prism-jet extra. I know some one that had a shop then had to close. They cleaned it and stored it its been there for 2 years I think. There are going to let me mess around with it.
Daily cleaning? Seriously, am I missing something? I just turn mine on, print some stuff and turn it back off. I have never even considered any type of daily (or weekly or annually) cleaning regement.
We we first bought our Mutoh it was recommended to us to purchase a cleaning cartrige, so I did (actually I bought 4). Two years later, I have never even taken it out of the pack. Never had a reason to use one.
Just how frequently do the modern eco-solvent machines have issues? Are we sure that this is an issue at all?
When I bought a screen printing company (that became our screen printing department) I called the salesman that the former owner purchased supplies from, the guy insisted that we needed to be ordering 6 cartons of spray glue and six cartons of screen opener and two gallons of degreaser, bla bla bla. Now after some screen printing experiance I know better. We don't need all that crap, never needed it, and honestly shouldn't have been using it. But the old owner had been lead to believe (by salespeople who he assumed to be expert screen printers) that you absolutely have to dump chemicals all over everything. He never learned otherwise because he simply accepted the word of the salespeople and never tried using less chemicals or alternative chemicals, or reclaiming screens without degreaser.
Is it possible that some of you guys are concerned about something that is not an issue at all?
SlightlyChilled
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if you are not going to use the carts you can send them over here 
SlightlyChilled
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I just hope the this thing fires back up. I don't mind a little work. I would think the o-rings and stiff like that might be bad guess we will find out this weekend....
if you are not going to use the carts you can send them over here
I assume that sooner or later I am going to have a need for them. Obviously you use them - when, how often and why? Am I missing something? Do you guys have a ink drying out problem?
J Hill Designs
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Only when the printer will be sitting for like 2+ weeks, I assume...you use them to flush all ink out of the lines, replacing it with cleaning fluid - waste of ink for daily/weekly maintenance, but there is a need...
SlightlyChilled
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Ok all I need is the ink for for this printer guess i should get the cleaning carts also and treat it like its a new one.
TheSnowman
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All I know is that when I don't clean it...the heads get some pretty nasty build up under them. I clean the wiper, and the station where the heads sit, then I clean around the four color nozzles on the head. I probably do it twice a week. Here is what they stuck on my printer direct from Advantage. They've seen it all, good and bad...so I'm thinking there is a reason they advise it.
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All Star Graphics
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Weekends/Vacations? What are these things you speak of?
Sticky Signs
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I figure my printer works pretty hard so I like to take it along on vacation with me. This weekend - snowboarding in Whistler. Next weekend - a much needed golf getaway in Hawaii... Sometimes we just lie around on the couch all weekend.