Christmas Shutdown: Printers

[Nicola McIntosh]

im in tomorrow to run a few metres also, and give cadet a clean 😀

nik

[John Childs]

Did mine yesterday. 😀

I’m in at work tomorrow anyway. Loads to do while it’s quiet.

[Colin Hibbitt]

im in tomorrow to give my cadet a few metres before i have my well deserved week off to lanzarote with my boy on thursday morning for a week

colin

happy new year everyone

[David Rowland]

yep… good good

for the JV3 users, this is how I go about checking heads….

Check under the heads sides for build up of ink, attempt to remove the dried up ink if you can, then after that the suction rings on the capping station could do with a light touch of cleaning, remove any dried ink and check the back of the wiper unit as it builds up there, just try and remove excess ink before starting this process but do not use metal tool objects on the heads or you will be in trouble and do not attempt to wipe the head, just concentrate on the metal sides only.

1: Print a Test pattern, check over it for any missing gaps
2: If head is completely missing, go Maintenance menu/Fill up Ink twice
3: Print a test pattern, if still no joy repeat fill up ink’s and make sure that you have 3+ ink level cartridges in or put in new carts (heavier ink weight)
4: Fill up ink and test pattern… keep doing the pattern.
5: If you have a result but not brilliant, still a few nozzles out then I have a test file which is just CMYK blocks in it and I just print that and scale it a few foot. This might force the missing blocks to print.
6: If still no joy with getting ink through the head, then seek help with your support line but I would then be trying other methods like a soak, where u fill up the capping station with fluid and leave it for 15 minutes.
7: Test print and it may work, if you got a JV3-S and not an SP, your heads are shared (eg. Black and Yellow in same head), then the blank may have contaminated the yellow, this require lots of fill up inks or syringing the pumps to suck excess ink thru.

Anyway, that’s how I roughly go about returning a head to use.

Also, a ‘head clean’ is the same as a ‘fill up ink’ command except it wipes the head on the rubber wiper and to be quite honest its just quicker to an occasional ‘head clean’ as its not really needed that much.

[Roy Roffey]

Done mine today, I’ve not used it since Friday and after a powerful clean it worked just fine, not like last year !!!!!

Good luck all

roffs

[David Rowland]

yep.. ours worked after i had to syringe the inks up, the pumps are a little weak

[Russ]

greetings one and all

not sure if this is correct, but after the install to eco-sol max inks my machine
turns it self on every so often and carrys’s out a small clean, well I think that’s what it’s doing. Please can someone let me know when it’s time to stop eating, drinking and staying in bed so I can make my way back to work

Russ

[David Rowland]

Digging up a old post… don’t neglet the printers. The JV3 will dry a bit if left too long in cold environments, mines in a warm room so should be fine. I shall be going in around Wednesday to loosen the ink (by printing).

Don’t want to come in Jan and find £1000’s need to be spent on your solvent printer.

Just a quick reminder

Dave

[Robert Lambie]

couldnt agree more, been doing this for the past 4 years now. never done the annual full flush on our machine.
we leave it a max of 3 days unattended. go in, give it print to run the cycle for a few minutes. maybe a metre square full colour on quality. then give it a regular clean and soak as you would for a weekend shutdown. job done… 😀