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  1. Mimaki UJF-3042 restoration

    Thanks! It's quite a journey, but hopefully will be of help to someone else too. Thanks for the information on the butyl carbitol, seems we can get this as Butyl Diglycol here in the UK. I wonder if that's what is used in the 'flushing/storing' agents with a slight oily consistency. I guess I...
  2. Mimaki UJF-3042 restoration

    Solder bridged the gap on the first repair... Covered with a UV cured conformal coating and additionally hot melt glue to both sides of the cable for additional mechanical support. The second cable repair wasn't so easy, as unfortunately the gap was a little large for solder, so had to use...
  3. Mimaki UJF-3042 restoration

    Two of the head EVEN/ODD connectors were then swapped around and the HD THERMIST error moved with the head cable, so it wasn't a fault with the slider PCB. It was felt to be a bit odd to have two even channels with the same failure and I'd understood these heads to be very reliable/durable, so...
  4. Mimaki UJF-3042 restoration

    Slider relay PCB with FFC cables to slider board disconnected, showing no D1 light (located between CN3 and CN7): Inspected the board for fuse problems etc but found nothing obvious, all fuses intact (the fuse for the 'D1' led power indication is on the reverse of the board). I started...
  5. Mimaki UJF-3042 restoration

    Hi everyone I thought it may be helpful to someone if I'd document/share my experience of bringing back to life an old UJF-3042 printer, purchased with the aim of helping out a local business print product samples and experiment getting colour matching right (printing on various plastic...
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