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  • How doi stop a JV3 from cleaning mid-job?

    Posted by Scot J on 12 May 2007 at 19:37

    I’m currently running my machine off a parallel port while I wait for a FireWire controller to arrive, and it seems that when doing wide jobs the printer wants to flush ink through the heads ever 2-4 passes. As you know this is quite time consuming and wastes alot of ink.

    I’ve turned the refresh rate to 0, and set auto clean off and still keeps doing it (I’ve also set my rip ONYX to use panel settings).

    Any ideas?

    Scot J replied 18 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • David Rowland

    Member
    12 May 2007 at 19:44

    Hi… sorry to hear about your firewire problems… the point of firewire is for speed and parallel is to old hat, most other printers use SCSI or Network cables which are hi-speed.

    The mid-way head clean is the printer running out of data while it is sending to it, it has to send the whole set of bands. So parallel isn’t really suitable.

    So whats wrong with your firewire?

  • Scot J

    Member
    12 May 2007 at 20:30

    Not sure, I just pulled the card and replaced it now everything is just ducky 🙂

    By the way, I got the color matching problems worked out (to an extent) and the machine is finally printing some nice colours. Ink limits are a tad off but I can tune that later I suppose.

    Now all I need to do is get bi-directional alignment fixed. On the new Jv3 I use to print on the bi-dir worked flawlessly!

  • David Rowland

    Member
    12 May 2007 at 20:40

    well our 720dpi bidir works, i think ours has gone off slightly so i have to re-align on different resolutions

    pleased u got it sorted

  • Scot J

    Member
    12 May 2007 at 20:57

    Yea, 720dpi is what we usually run on the other machine. For now this is fine, when I have more time I’ll try and re-align this (and figure out how to do it).

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