Recent content by chinaski

I raised this as a possible issue with our technician. He didn't know himself but went back and discussed it with his colleagues and it turns out Canon has had certain production batches of magenta that are defective. I guess this is a global issue but for $ome rea$on they haven't issued a...

Interesting. Too bad I don't have spare ink but I do have a filter. I'll try this to see if it makes any difference. True, I was hoping to avoid this as I was planning to sell this machine in a few months, but I think I'm overdue for a realignment. Another interesting thing I found was when...

The magenta printhead on my Oce Arizona 460xt is printing blurry and misting. I've seen this posted elsewhere where the suggested problem was that the printhead must not be at the same height as the others, but from my own inspection I cannot see any difference in height between them. I'm not...

Did you see a nozzle status photo or see it in person before you purchased it? If the missing nozzles change, that is a good sign they are recoverable.

Wouldn't all new printheads cost more than the machine itself? These printheads are soo expensive that I'd be trying everything possible to recover nozzles before replacing printheads! You're going to need to buy consumable parts at some point anyway, so why not replace your pumps and filters...

Orabond is the name of the product line. 3m makes a similar product that works just as well https://www.orafol.com/en/europe/products/orabond-1391pp

Orafol1931PP is what I use. Very quick and easy to apply by hand.

Yeah, I'm aware it's quite the process to move one. We planned to contract this out to the same technicians that installed our machine. Probably looking at between €10-12k for the whole job. I approached Canon for the decommissioning and they weren't even interested in quoting us for the work...

Going to be moving our 460XT sometime this year. If I could get a service manual that'd be greatly appreciated.

Is there a distinction in service you receive whether you are on a Service Contract or not? I'm under the impression it doesn't include consumables, labor, or travel.

Also, speaking from my own experience, I'd used non-oem inks in my Oce Arizona, for reasons due to better adhesion and not costs, and it ended up costing 10k+ more over the course of 2 years, from having to replace a couple of printheads, to added time getting my nozzles all firing each day, to...

Myopic thinking. It's like picking up pennies in front of a steamroller. Maybe you'll pick up a few but eventually, you'll get run over. The ink costs on UV even at $1.50/sqm must have a negligible effect on your profitability otherwise your margins are nonexistent and you really have nowhere...

I'd 2nd this. Purging white doesn't always bring full nozzles back but if I print a white swatch I've got a better chance of getting full nozzles recovered than I would just purging. I use #6 droplet in express mode and do two rounds and that almost always does the trick. If white isn't...

Then the parameters would look like this from the profile creation/Easymedia stage? I do have a magnetic dial gauge but haven't bothered with checking the levelness. I guess I already know it's not level just from printing and carriage platten grazing the edge of media at the low points such...

Good tip. My only concern is that this will alter the color profile unless you were to make your profile with custom parameters and the smallest droplet size deactivated as a workaround. I bought it used in 2018 and had 258 Marabu inks installed. I really didn't like that inkset (lost 2...