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what cadet maintenance can i use for holiday closures?
We have settled on the 54" cadet as our option for wide format and have been told by a rival system supplier that daily maintenance is required on this system, just wanted to ask other cadet users if this is the case and if so is it a problem, just asking from the fact of holidays and holiday shutdowns
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don’t have much time to reply properly, but daily maintenance is ridiculous. no you don’t, 5 minute clean on a Friday night is all that’s needed before shutting down for weekend.
if going on holiday then a flush is needed, again this is just inserting flush cartridges and the machine basically does the rest. -
there is no daily maintenance as long as its used often enough as for shutdowns etc there is a procedure in the manual
george
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Thanks for that, as i suspected.
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we`ll be shutting down for a month in december.
i`m getting someone in to run couple of small jobs a couple of days aweek, just to keep it going.
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same here becky, although we arent closing for anywhere near a month. at christmas/new year. i came in every two days or so. had a set file which i run a low output print on banner. just enough to make sure the ink was still moving and then did the basic end of week clean. still no problems 18 months or more on….
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did you see this current post..
https://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.php?p=109501#109501In the case of the JV3, the dealers tell you too clean the heads with a felt rod and moisten the rings that the print head squashes into a creates a suction seal. The gathering of rubbish causes a bad seal when cleaning or standby, thats the reason. However we had some post from the Distributor about 1month later with instructions how to clean the heads, it is something they reconmend.
Sometimes if we leave our JV3-160s for 4 days, some nozzles will be blocked but over time if air gets into the nozzles it can cause deflection and bad spray. If you print and never do any ‘head-clean’ fuctions and all the nozzles work all the time, then you possibly have a good set of heads, after time the same nozzles will block over and over again, eventually you will need a new head. Heads are around £700-1,000 but won’t be covered in waranty if you do not look after your machine.
When you think about it, the ink is air-drying, we print and within 5 minutes the print is air-dry. If the heads doesn’t have a good seal then 5 minutes is all it takes for the heads to block. Soaks then will be needed and if that fails then ultra-sonics could be used.
One tip, if you are closing for a whole month, then you need to leave ‘full’ cartridges in the machine, you will find when you come back they might be half-full. The JV3 cleans every 30minutes or so, which keeps the heads moving.
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