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does anyone have JV3 questions/maintenance advise?
Im just after a bit of input from fellow JV3 users, what sort of maintenance routine do you perform on your plotter?
Our supplier has recommended the following
End of the day clean the wiper, perform a 2min nozzle wash and turn the machine off. (front panel switch only…)
On a monday morning perform a disway wash and then its good to get up and running again.
I clean around the heads at the end of everyday and the capping station weekly.
The machine has been running pretty solid for 6 months, output roughly 200m of semi-perm mactac stock a week and I am just a bit concerned that there must be more maintenance I should be performing.
How long until the heads need to be replaced? Our suppliers answer was only when something goes wrong.
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Ive been running a JV3 for well over 18 months now, and it has copped a hiding, we have printed a hell of a lot out of the machine and it has caused us very little problem and we are doing a very similar routine to you. They are a great machine and they are well known for being easy to look after and giving their users very little difficulty in producing quality prints time and time again.
It sounds to me like your doing everything to keep it running well. If you werent doing much maintainence and you are have only run 200m through it since you got the machine, i believe it would have caused you problems well before now….
We also run a 90 min nozzle wash on a fri afternoon too, seems to keep us clean and running.
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The engineer that installed our machine said:
Clean the heads, wiper and capping station at the end of every day we use the machine or, if it isn’t being used, every fourth day. That’s all we’ve done and had no problems in eight months.
Surely, unless a nozzle test comes up with gaps, with the printer doing a self clean every two hours in use, or eight hours in standby mode, any further nozzle washes are unnecessary and a waste of ink?
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exactly as John says… I am suprised you are nozzle washing and doing anything like that, it sounds like a ploy to get you to buy more supplies from them.
I know someone who has a JV3-75 and its in prestine condition as is about 1 year and a bit now and heavy use. Theirs is cleaned daily (dirt around capping) and where possible around heads. Our JV3-160 is cleaned every fortnight when someone remembers, it does loose a few lines but they come back with a Fill up Ink command, its just important to keep the areas clean and thats it. Our supplier said daily clean around the capping station and heads, it will look after itself.
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oops [ma dawg’s dead]
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The new 2 [2a] inks seem to be making a big difference…we still have a cleaning log book and do a daily 10 minutes….still have the occassional problem but never have any gaps on test print…working well…
can leave to run a 50m roll over night without worrying….
😀 😀
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Thank you for all the feedback. 😎 I was paranoid about the maintenance as another one of our offices run a Mutoh Toucan and have a much more thorough maintenace routine to keep it running..
Looks like I could probably lay off some of the cleaning fluid.. :lol1:
I do have a few more questions which I will post tomorrow with pictures, just concerning print quality.
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