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  • Oce branded Mutoh Valuejet 1604 stopped printing

    Posted by Mark Reader on 27 June 2009 at 09:41

    Hi
    We have a Oce branded Mutoh valuejet 1604
    I was printing a large full colour sign as the print was coming off it was getting lighter, so i thought it had just crashed i re booted the computer
    and the printer, then tried to reprint the sign, now it prints nothing at all even on a test print.
    I have tried all the usual things cleaning recharge etc to no avail.
    Has anyone else had this problem? or does anyone know of a good
    service engineer for these machines?

    Mark Reader replied 16 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 6 Replies
  • 6 Replies
  • Andre Woodcock

    Member
    29 June 2009 at 05:18

    Enigmasinz, Maybe the sub tank is not charging, Try to perform a "Little ink charge" from the ink charge menu. Are you using Oce Ink?

    Cheers

    Andre

  • Mark Reader

    Member
    29 June 2009 at 08:17

    Hi we have tried that but didn’t help, i am using oce inks have tried mutoh but the printer rejects them!

  • Andre Woodcock

    Member
    29 June 2009 at 08:27

    We have the re badged Valuejet 1614 from Oce. We had a problem with the cyan ink which was not printing. We end up replacing the 2 way valves, cyan sub tank and maintenance assembly.

    We are using Lyson 2100 inks. we buy the chip separately.

  • Mark Reader

    Member
    29 June 2009 at 09:39

    Cheers Andre
    I think we are going to give up and get an engineer out!
    i will post the results when fixed,
    How do you find the aftermarket inks? are the chips easy to purchase,
    i tried an original mutoh and it would not work,
    yours

    Mark

  • Andre Woodcock

    Member
    30 June 2009 at 03:03

    Mark, The Nazdar Lyson 2100. Is very good. Apart from the original Oce ink I have used Roland Eco Solmax and Mutoh ultra ink. There’s not much difference. I buy the chip from Oce. Rgds

    Andre

  • Mark Reader

    Member
    12 July 2009 at 23:13

    It was the head gone and blown a fuse on a circuit board,
    apparently the capping station was not seating properly and caused the head to blow, and very expensive to repair at £2600 for head and capping station?

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