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I'll give this a shot. I really appreciate you taking the time to help me. This stuff is miserable, but it is very kind of you to help.

I was able to draw ink. However, why would a damper fail just because I cleaned my print heads and capping station? And why do you think I have white lines through my nozzle check prints?

Ya, looks like the black damper is empty. The other two dampers have ink in them. How do I get the black damper to fill up?

Gave it a shot, it only sucked air. Looking at the dampers it appears that the black damper is not filling up. Why would that happen? I tried putting a new black cartridge in and that didn't seem to help. Is there something I need to do after putting in a new cartridge to get it to fill up...

After hooking the drain lines up to a syringe, and pulling several times, I was able to get the nozzle checks to have a little more color in them. However, they still have lines through them, and black isn't showing up at all. Any ideas? When I'm drawing ink out with the syringe, I have to push...

Sorry, I did that before I took the picture. Any other ideas?

I decided to post a picture of the capping stations. Shouldn't they be full of ink? Most of these are half to a quarter full of ink. I also posted a picture of my capping station... just in case that shows us anything. Last and least, after my head soaks last night and this morning, my...

I've run several cleaning cycles. Are my heads toast?

There was a just a little bit of dried ink on the thing that holds the print heads, not on the print head itself. I may have brushed the print heads a little before I read the thread where someone said, "don't brush the print head". However, I don't think I brushed it that hard, I don't know...

Here is the nozzle check this morning after doing what I thought was a head soak last night. I filled the capping station with cleaning fluid, and put the heads on the capping station, is that correct?

Just did a nozzle check and there are all these white lines through it. Looked solid yesterday. Oh boy... have I broken my machine? What did I do?

I just got a newly refurbished Mutoh Falcon Outdoor 48. I've been getting it dialed in, but I keep getting fuzzies around the print heads causing problems. Tonight I decided to do a thorough cleaning around the print heads using denatured alcohol and a foam brush. I even used an x-acto knife to...

So would you say that for doing non-photos I'll be using 720 for most things? Seems like the decals turn out nice in 720 :)

Aha! I finally found a good profile on the Mutoh site, and if I make it unidirectional, it's practically giving me what I need. My question is, why is it that when I raise it to 1440, does the image look so dark and bleedy?

Why does my printer print something blue, when in my file it is white??

It came with Flexi Print SE 5. I have the FlexiPrint 10 DX on order. In Flexi Print 5, they have "presets", is that what you mean by profiles? I've tried using various ones with no difference :(

Could the media that I use for my Mutoh play a big part in why the ink looks so heavy and why the graphics I print appear so dark? While I've been testing things out, I've been using regular Intermediate Calendered vinyl, SC-50 from 3M. I'm going to order something else today. But I didn't know...

Ok! Using non-trial software, and cleaning the heads really works well! The only problem I am having now, is that I'm using older Flexi 5 PhotoPrint software. The colors are showing up way too dark, and it looks like the ink is really being caked on. I've tried some different presets and...

That's right! I remember it telling me that when I installed. Ok, that's one problem solved :)

Ah, I think I see some! Can I use a cotton swap and some rubbing alcohol as long as I don't get cotton fibers on it? Regular rubbing alcohol will do? Or only 99%?