Why is my Mutoh 1324 doing this?

[kyprinter]

HELP!! Why is my printer doing this????

 

[Joe House]

Likely a dirty encoder, but something could be slipping - check the belt tension if it still happens after you clean the encoder strip.

 

[kyprinter]

Likely a dirty encoder, but something could be slipping - check the belt tension if it still happens after you clean the encoder strip.

Thanks! I'll try that. I've wasted so much vinyl!

 

[Solventinkjet]

I had a customer have the same issue recently. He turned of the, "RIP While Printing" option and the problem went away. Not sure why to be honest.

 

[kyprinter]

I will try that too. It just started doing it this week.

 

[GAC05]

If none of those things work try cleaning up your RIP queue and then re-ripping the file.
I've run into that before running a Mutoh with Flexi 12 and I think that is what fixed it for me.

 

[kyprinter]

Neither worked. How do you clean the RIP queue? Excuse my ignorance.

 

[GAC05]

If you have a bunch of layouts in your 'hold after print' panel get rid of them. Find your temp files for the rip and delete anything over a year old (or all of them).
You could also rasterize the layout and send it to the RIP as a JPEG with zero compression.
Your photo shows the same error in both copies of the file - if it was a dirty encoder or slippage it would not repeat in exactly the same way.
Has to be something in the way the file was ripped or is being read by the printer.

 

[kyprinter]

I have run 6 different prints of the same design and its "skipping" in the exact same place. Its also "skipping" on other designs as well, right towards the end of the print.

 

[Solventinkjet]

Maybe check your tiling settings? Maybe it's tiling at a certain length and saved as a default or something.

 

[kyprinter]

I've cleaned the decoder strip. I've turned off RIP while printing. I've cleaned RIP queue, and holds. I've deleted tmp files. Any my tiling is factory set. Its still doing the skipping at the end of the printing. HELP! I'm so far behind after this week!

 

[Solventinkjet]

Do you have another computer you could try to print from? If the same thing happens with a completely different computer and RIP, unfortunately it could be a malfunctioning main board. Something isn't being processed correctly by the CPU essentially. Maybe there is another possibility but to me it seems to be heading that way.