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can anyone help with MIMAKI JV3 160s bulk ink issues?
Hi People!, Happy New Year to you all,
Mine is not so happy at the moment 😮 !, Have a Mimaki JV3 160s around twelve months old, have had a bulk in system installed for around 6mths.
Had various problems with the black ink not printing / feeding. Have put colour bands down the side of the print jobs to see when it starts to drop out so we can restart the job!.Have to do a fill ink cycle before a print job but it seems that as soon as the dampers are emptied they do not refill and the black drops out again -but the print is perfect upto then. Have checked the heads – they have been replaced recently – have run out of ideas..
Has anyone else had a problem like this? If so could you please help!.
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My only similar experiance was with the old formulation mimaki ink, apparently
it’s a sod for clogging the filter in the print head, thus restricting flow and cutting out.
Could the bulk ink your using be doing something akin to this?Cheers, Pete
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i have had a similar problem on my tiara opal (uselees thing – but that is another story) got on to my supplier and they told me the dampers needed changing. after changing 3 dampers and still the problem had not gone away i checked the black cartridge and the breather hole was blocked, so i unblocked the hole and the problem had gone away.
i don’t know if the mimaki cartridge is similar as mine as they are refillable which is why my breather hole got blocked……
(so much for on the telephone backup):lol1:
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