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Great points to consider. The reason we're considering 2x cheaper units is for redundancy. Being a quick turn shop, we don't have the luxury of buying out when equipment goes down. That Arizona 6100 series looks amazing. Any idea what the starting price is on those units?

Looking for some recommendations on which direction we should go for our next purchase. We are replacing 2x aging hybrid UV printers and are looking to increase throughput. Daily volume/jobs: - 90% 4x8 4mm boards - mainly corrugated, foam, pvc - 30-40 4x8 impressions/day with the occasional...

Reviving this old thread to add some information for anyone looking for it. We are now on our 4th Y motor on this machine...looks like they are failing after 1-1.5 years (780 - 1170 hours). Anyone else with experience on this machine think this is abnormally low?

Our FB500 seems to be stuck in a bootloop due to an error during initialization. Screen will show "Initializing 48% - 75E4-B" then error out with error code "E-MD-9 Motor driver board initialization failed". Next logical step is to obviously replace the motor driver board, but error codes are...

We have been using this ink for years and only recently started seeing issues. With all the supply chain issues lately, it would not surprise me if something has changed.

Thanks all. Although it is the only consistent variable, I never figured the ink to be the source of the problem. For what it's worth, we are using third party ink from INX. Anybody ever have any similar issues with INX?

Photos attached. Originally we thought the issue was static or head/nozzle related. We are having this same problem on 3 of our HP FB presses (500/550/700). The only consistent variable would be the ink we are using. Would appreciate any advice on how to fix or narrow down the possible issues...

Does anyone have references to good Mimaki/HP 3rd party techs in Southern California?

Potentially dumb question but I am unfamiliar with digital equipment (I mainly deal with offset). Are scales the different sections going across the encoder strip? If so, could oil on the strip cause an issue with the sensor correctly reading each scale? The last tech that was out here put oil...

Not quite yet. We took your advice and were able to start printing correctly by reseating the encoder sensor...temporarily. However, we are still getting that System Halt error intermittently. We have called in the techs at this point and have received a quote on a new encoder and sensor...

Update: The fun continues... Printer started throwing a System Halt (2): 509 error. We opened up the head and cleaned the encoder sensor the best we could. The error seems to have subsided but now there is obviously something very wrong with the way the encoder is functioning...We output a...

I appreciate all the info. I did think it was odd that a black out would damage the motor. You would think the board components would be the first thing to go. I am holding on to the motor to test and repair if it is actually damaged. We tried oiling the bearings as best as we could. It did...

After a few days of troubleshooting we narrowed it down to the motor and got it replaced. Our dealer charged us $1500 just for the Y motor which seems exorbitant. Unfortunately we did not have time to source it ourselves. After replacing the motor, we are realizing that the rail bearings and...

Yes, the machine gets heavy use...about 12 hours a day nonstop. I am not in the large format press room consistently but the operators say they did not notice any more noise from the motors.

Thanks for the suggestion. I was able to get in to the service menu but can't seem to find the encoder test. Do you know where that is located within the menu?

We had a blackout in our area last night and have since been getting ERROR 404 Y CURRENT on boot on our UJV55-320. Video here We are not able to find anything blocking the path and connections to the board all seem fine. Really hoping the motor or board aren't fried. Any ideas for...