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It does not appear to be losing fluid through cracks or anything. I'll have to find a replacement tube anyways. Does the gap of the tubing about the cams have little impact? I'm in the stage of isolating and pressurizing each tubing section. It might be a problem at the capping station...

The fingers were not broken. I attached some photos which show some of the components. From the attached views, I have a few questions and made a few assumptions. 1) Both left and right pump side cam sets need to be somewhat in sync. It looked like one set was engaging when the other...

Understood. It makes the most sense. As 1 cam rotates in/engages the other rotates out/disengages. I'll double check it within the next week or so. Thanks for the suggestion.

It sounds like you saved alot of money by avoiding a new pump, maintenance station, and tubes. I heard the same issue about the wiper arm which gets jammed up with ink within a plastic channel. The wiper may not go back and forth and the finger that drives it sometimes breaks off. It...

'Solvosclerosis' seems to return 2 or 3 days. I took the pump and maintenance station apart and cleared the tubes with solvent. The tubes were clogged. A tube could be collapsed. After clearing the tubes, my step was to align the heads. The mounting screws on the heads were loosened and...

After speaking with the Mutoh service dept (AZ), who was very helpful/knowledgeable, I found a few more clues... 1) While executing a 'charge' command, push the heads over maintenance station to the far right detent (as if manually priming from the waste tube end) and listen for a change of...

vicious cycle (Mutoh Falcon Outdoor 48) ink priming and nozzle loss Does anyone have a solution for the following Mutoh issue(s)? Any help would be much appreciated! I've been working these issues for the past 2 months, reading and working through many of the basic steps found here at...

No. I don't any setting to change the clean time, but it might exist.

Yeah, the wash cycle lasted about 4 minutes and wasted about 10% of the new ink supply. I'm still trying to figure out the best place to buy the eco-ultra CMYKLcLm outdoor inks. I understand that one of the earlier ink formulas caused the capping station sponge to swell. Not sure about the...

I'm new at this, but managed to get 2 dead heads semi-working and have been reading alot of advice. -Lint free cloth (or coffee filters as suggested) soaked in solvent placed over the capping station, under the heads may loosen the ink. re-apply every 30 minutes. -I took the left side...

Thank you for the help!

Are you saying to pull off the dampers while the heads are off so that the muck from the maintenance station does not back up into the lines? Also, I was also told that isopropyl alcohol created problems with some ink (creates some precipitates and gums up the head). I'm not sure if the...

I will print a file with the 6 - 1" 'pure' color blocks as you suggest. I'm suspecting to see the same issue that appeared on the black lettering. Printing every 2 or 3 days makes sense. Printhead 911 said that they'll guarantee a 100% recovery. They have a special test print station...

Thank you for the advice. I will replace the dampers and o-rings for good measure and will do a soak again. We did soak and syringe the heads which brought them back to life, but every 4 or 5 days they needs to print -else it will clog. That seems to be a normal requirement. Do you think...

Hi, Attached are a few pics of a test print and a nozzle check. We finally have a Mutoh Falcon Outdoor semi-functional. The heads are not aligned yet. We can see that a number of nozzles are out. Rather than printing pure back, streaks of different colors are embedded which leads me to...