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I am not quite sure where the encoder strip is. That being said, nor do i know where the encoder sensor is. I have the carriage cover off but i am not sure where those items are. I could take a picture if that would help.

Thank you for your quick responses. I printed a few things today just fine. Then I started this job and it all the sudden started doing what I described. I have attached a few pictures to show what it is doing. It is not printing the image properly. It should be solid colors.

Hey guys and gals, What does it mean when my printer only prints the first line, then moves the head like it is printing but nothing comes out until the head goes back to the capping station. After it refreshes the ink supply it print one strip then nothing. This happens across all the colors...

Solved... I had an extra damper and it now works fine. Thanks genericname!

Does anyone know why that would happen(above post) and the numbers be different than the illustrator file?

Thanks for the response. Maybe I wasn't clear. I drew all the air out with a syringe. When all the air is out I remove the syringe and the ink is drawn back up the line. :(

Hey guys I have been searching in the archives and I am just not coming up with a solution. I have a Mimaki JV3 160-SP. I was changing out some o rings to hopefully solve some ink starving problems and stumbled on to another seemingly un related problem. One of my yellow ink lines was empty...

One thing i find extremely odd is that when I use illustrator turning off all profiles doesn't change a thing!

Some screen shots are attached. The Rip1 one is showing my illustrator settings. The Rip2 is showing my onyx settings. Without GCR. The Rip3 is showing my onyx settings again but with the adobe profiles chosen for the imput. I closed the option box and did another sample point then...

As to your edit... I tried to get spot colors to work but had the same problem. Basically I want my colors to come out the same color as i want ie not adding in cyan when i just want a little black.

The print turned out good looks like burgundy. However I set up the same color square in illustrator and now nothing i do in the profiles section changes the ink levels. With no profiles selected and CGR turned off I still get the 58 100 100 0. Can you think of any reason why??

Alright you guys set me on a path... I made a maroon square in photoshop. Color mode = CMYK. Saved as a jpeg. I opened it with preflight and got the same thing c58 100m 100y 0k. Then I shut off CGR and changed the CMYK Image to no profile and i get a reading of 25 100 100 25. Grr. Now to see...

I don't believe so. I use mostly adobe illustrator vector files set up as CMYK(file/color mode/cmyk) eps files.

I feel like i have a little experience with color profiling... That being said I have recently been humbled. I'll give you a few for instances and maybe you could point out for me what I have missed because I feel like I am beating my head against a wall. Here is want happens. I take a simple...

In case anyone has a similar problem. I figured out from the help of some other threads that it was a damper(pretty easy fix w. dampers @ $22.50). I also learned the to much heat can do the same thing. I was printing banner material at 40 35 degrees and then lowered it to 30 27 and it helped...

Whoops didn't mean to hijack. I thought it was similar in that my test pattern is perfect. Just trying to help :)

Ram... The easiest thing maybe to take out some cyan when you rip it. The hardest and best thing would be to make a profile for you printer and media that has the proper initial settings. This is a long drawn out process if you don't know what you are doing. You may want to talk to your...

Cmiller... does it look like what I have attached? I think I am having the same problem. *Notice the black swatches

Whoops Sorry guys missed that... Here are the images. Thanks, John

I need some help with figuring out what going on with my print. I have included 2 images. One showing a clean test print and one showing swatches printed very streaky. It is a small print so I don't think it is starving for ink but??? Have anyone seen something like this before? Thanks, John...