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No on the video, but it's straight forward - clean the 4 chrome strips with swabs and alcohol until clean. See pic. Move the head carriage back and forth the width of the machine, it should move freely. If so, as mentioned above, very lightly grease the chrome strips with white lithium grease...

Clean the guide rails...

There are 4 head carriage bearing guides - shiny chrome strips. You can see 2 of them from the front on the Y guide rail. The other 2 are directly behind them on the Y guide rail. Clean these with a swab and alcohol until totally clean. Excessive resistance from ink and dust buildup on these...

It would be easier for most of us to be able to help if you could post the screen shots of your settings with the system in English.

You should run a nozzle test print and the fill test, both in service mode and post the results.

You are very welcome. And you made the right choice on which chemical to use on which part. Just insure when you re-installed the encoder sensor, the encoder strip is centered in the slot and not touching either side of the opening of the sensor.

Clean your encoder strip with a microfiber cloth and acetone.

"I need to stop mucking around with this inkjet nonsense, and get me a Giccle Squirter." Your Canon 8400 is a Giclee Squirter...

First, I admire your willingness to venture into a whole different area of the printing world. Agree 100% with Humble PM. Spent a few years doing Giclee printing, starting with the Iris 3047, then on to early aqueous Roland FJ's with hexachrome pigment inks, then on to Canon and Epson printers...

Not sure if this will take care of the feed issue between images, but check that Full Width Scan is turned off in the user menu. At the very least, it will shorten print times by only printing data.

I would make sure Bordeaux knows you are currently using STS ink and let them tell you how to proceed. The plug and play thing is usually when you are running Roland OEM ink.

They have both been around for a long time and have good reputations. Just get it in writing and follow their instructions and document what you do with photographs, just in case.

You do a head wash in service mode. However, before you switch, considering the following. Are you currently using OEM or aftermarket ink? If you are using OEM, before you go to the trouble and expense of switching to aftermarket inks, you need to consider a couple of things. What is your...

Try removing the encoder strip from the printer and clean it with a microfiber cloth and acetone until it is squeaky clean and there is no ink on the cloth when pulling it through the cloth. Then redo all the calibrations, including Initialize the limit. Acetone removes ink from the encoder much...

You should post your solution in the name of sharing... That's what this forum is all about!

Excellent point! Check your conversations.

As Roland doesn't appear to have an exploded view document for this printer, I can't find a part number, so I don't know how you will be able to find the actual part. You can fabricate something, as it's probably just a 90 degree angle piece. As both the previous suggestions are more of a...

Or use a small tie wrap to close the switch arm permanently.

Probably a blown fuse on the mainboard, as you suspect. See the attached pic for the location of the fuse. It's in a holder and can be replaced. You can get replacement fuses here. https://www.solventinkjet.com/product-page/printhead-fuse-3-15-125v-quick-blow-fuse

Hard proof, no speculation! Question answered!