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Pressed a wrong button on Mimaki and changed setting – help?
Hi
As normal my husband runs around like a bull in a china shop. He walked past the mimaki and thought he`d pressed the buttons to put the printer into remote so he can send a print to it.
He seems to think he saw breifly a different screen, something to do with alinement….. before he pressed enter.
So he believes he changed the settings, as now it prints funny.
When it prints The registration marks, the first bit of it prints on the first pass, then on the second pass the line is staggered and so on and so on untill it prints the image which is also staggered for all the print looks blurred.
Signmaster are looking into it, but nothing yet.
Can anyone shed any light on what my hubbys done and how to correct it?
help, hes driving me mad LOL
denise x
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So how long have you been telling him he’s been pushing all the wrong buttons? 😕
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I had a similar issue on our JV33 recently and it was the encoder strip. You might be able to clean it if thats the case.
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Most likely he’s run the Print Adjust test. Did it print a load of vertical lines?
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quote Phill Fenton:So how long have you been telling him he’s been pushing all the wrong buttons? 😕🙁 ant that the case with most men……. LOL xxxx
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quote Jon Marshall:I had a similar issue on our JV33 recently and it was the encoder strip. You might be able to clean it if thats the case.
He did clean it, just in case, it made no difference.
but he insists he pressed buttons then pressed enter, so he thinks he altered the settings.
It printed that day with no problems
xx.
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quote Stafford Cox:Most likely he’s run the Print Adjust test. Did it print a load of vertical lines?
it didn`t print anything, just printed funny when he did a print run.
Signmaster has said its the encoder strip, but he still insists he altered the settings by mistake. The print alignment might be what it is.
and an encoder strip from signmaster is £250ish
I`ve up loaded a picture of how it prints the reg marks
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Wow!! That’s a very strange one.
I would agree that the encoder strip would cause that kind of effect in the scan direction, but not in both!! Can you take a picture of some actual prints please? I might be able to see a bit more from that.
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Hi Stafford
My drawing might not be correct as it was from memory. I will try to get a photo.
We have ordered a strip just in case
Thanks for all your suggestion
Denise xxx
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Just an update.
While waiting for the new encoder strip to arrive, I removed the old one and gave it a real good clean with IPA .
It cured the problem for a few prints but then returned.
The new strip came from digiprint, but gave an encoder error once fitted.
Wasted a day changing back and forth with the old and new one, while waiting for a reply from Tec at digiprint.
Their first question was….. Did you remove the protective film before fitting the new strip………………… No I didn’t lol
All working good so far
Thanks for the support guysDenise xxx
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Glad you got it sorted out, it’s an easy mistake to make. I’ve known experienced engineers to leave that strip on before too.
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