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I was printing over the weekend and all of the sudden my cyan ink cartridge was empty... then the light cyan.... then today i went to load new cartridges and noticed my vj1304 had dumped all its ink through the waste container and all over the floor! What would have caused this?!??!?!?! I...

figured out the cover open... are the heads shot?

I am getting the message "cover open" after I put everything back together... I was able to run test prints with the machine apart? why am I getting this message?

I did run out of cyan in the middle of this nozzle check... that might have something to do with cyan being so bad.

Sorry, not sure about the dampers. Back to my print heads. My nozzle check is a little better... But still not nearly where it should be. I have it soaking again, going to soak it for a good part of the day. And give it one last shot. Looks like the heads are dead? Whats my next...

After pushing the print head completely to the right and holding it i was able to get full suction! Going to let heads soak for a bit here and then suck, test.

Okay I finally had some downtime to play around with things. I took the thing apart to get to the capping station. I gently removed the lower tube (starting with the right side) parked the print head, then gently sucked from that tube with a syringe. Crossing fingers this is right. It seemed...

thanks everyone for the advice! Randya, your saying I can suck from the hoses that are in the waste bottle?! This could save me a ton of time!

Hmm this helps out a bit. So what I was thinking I needed to do was take the dampers off, run solution through the heads that way, over the capping station? However I can also manually suck ink from the capping station? Next noob question. Whats the easiest way to dismantle everything to...

That... or get a very high quality picture of a pint of beer... then wrap the front to look like its full of beeeeer. now I'm thirsty.

any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I have a Mutoh Falcon 48" I have soaked the heads numerous times using coffee filters and cleaning solution, however the head test still has missing bands. The next step is to use a syringe and manually push cleaning solution through the head? This scares me a bit... Is there any...

I have had things curl the moment I have cut them... But this curled nearly 15 days later. What print profile are you using in flexi? (if you use flexi) I was on fdc matte.

They were printed, kiss cut (probably maybe 2 hours or more after printing). Then scrap vinyl was weeded. They are in the middle of my workshop. Not direct sunlight. It did get pretty hot and humid with all the rain last week. But at the same time the AC has been on... Not over 85 degrees...

Okay, Just noticed the opti to curl around the edges!! YIKES! Its been 2 weeks and all the sudden. BAM! Is this ink saturation? I'm worried about other jobs that I have printed now... I can't afford to reprint everything. Thanks

I'm using the optima 6 mil. Mixed results. Still haven't got it dialed in. What temperature settings are you guys running?

^^ I completely understand.

Welp, A few hours later and messing with trying to get Onyx.... I learned that I must pay for onyx. And the ink monitoring system they use.

radya, thanks! This definitely helps me get a better grasp on ink usage. I am grabbing the free version of onyx right now. I previously used Flexi... which I don't think has any ink usage calculations?

Hi I have finally (after 3 weeks) got my 48" mutoh falcon printing perfectly! Now comes the fun part. Pricing. How do you do your pricing? I want to come up with a sq ft price for full color. Just ink price. I print on many different mediums so material cost will vary from job to job...