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I use STS out of Florida and have had pretty good luck. So much so, we stock them here and I even support printers if it causes issues. Only issue so far was with too much pigment in a batch of UV ink and I flushed the customer's machine out, was a pain, but overall, very happy with their stuff...

Yeah, looks pretty typical. White is one of those things that just loses a good bit in bleed-out. Not much you can do to change that unfortunately. Any time a cleaning or purge is done, all channels are pulled from, plus you have circulation losses and also a white ink circulation tank to fill...

I have had great luck with Sihl material for aqueous, but the coating it has can be chalky and prone to chipping if kept in a humid environment for a long time. We ran it in an older Epson Stylus Pro 9900 and the colors were amazing. Longevity, not so much. The Epson stuff was good too, but I...

Are you going off the screen/what the chips say, or off bottle weight/feel/looking inside? The chips are terrible on accuracy as they are basically just a counter.

Because the UCJV330 uses circulation dampers for white, they seem to bleed a lot more than subtanks when idle, especially on circulation cycles. Not sure there's a way around it. Can check your capping station gap. Note that I did my first install on a UCJV330 just this past month, so I don't...

Sometimes just a cap adjustment or pump will do it, and those are the typical steps a tech will try first.

Sounds like a bad head. Had this exact scenario about a month ago on a client machine. Dude wanted to do everything possible to recover it, and gave it a strong shot, but just couldn't recover it. Was the right channel on a dual CMYK setup.

Parameters are machine specific, best bet is to contact a Mimaki tech or dealer to get a copy for your specific machine serial number. They will be factory parameters, so they will be outdated most likely, but better than trying to start with some from another machine. Best practice is to back...

Good tip, didn't see this until now. Will try tomorrow on the JFX200 and the JFX200EX

Contact your Mimaki dealer/ Appelez votre Mimaki concessionnaire

Gino's profile picture leaves it open to interpretation.

Probably a case of the fees moving faster than their web team. Still not excusable.

The version 2 Mikachips are dodgy at best and when you ask for support, they just try and sell you on their chip emulators. Oops, misread that as the MikaChip 2. Never played with the emulators as they're just arduinos using the 1-wire library.

If you feel like modding the head plumbing, the Gen5 heads are designed to have ink on both sides of the channel. No bloody clue why they added a bleeder port instead of just a Y fitting like sane designers. Then again, they also opted for oddball 4 channel 150DPI heads instead of 2 channel...

I just do manual purges. Take a small syringe, grab a piece of tubing and steal the right-angle fitting from the drain tube. Move head over the wiper station (Maintenance> Station> Station) and gently pull air through the fitting one port at a time pulling just enough to remove air bubbles and...

Run your calibrations as covered in the cutting guide, might help some. Also, check your media compensation settings. https://mimaki.com/archives/034/202410/D203243-19_CJV200,CJV300Plus,CJV330,UCJV300_150,UCJV330_IDCutGuide_e.pdf

If you have a Mimaki dealer, see if they can get you the factory parameters.

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Boils down to quantity, durability, lamination, etc? A cheap roll feed solvent printer, a cheap 24" vinyl cutter with registration mark reader and a small laminator will cover most people. However, you'll want to keep the printer going to keep heads clear, take on maintenance and still be in a...

Sounds like a fun engineering problem, but one that might involve modifications to the bed and addition of a larger pump. Not going to be an easy thing to do. The JFX500 has a great vacuum system, but they also have a rubberized bed coating and the ports are counter-sunk slightly. Not sure the...