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You can find refurb heads on places like Aliexpress for like $400. It's an older printer, if you want to run a cheap head for a bit to tide you over, build your expectations as such. I've picked up used/refurb heads for under $100 for Toshiba CE4's and they had a few deflections, but it got...

In the case of adhesion promoters and primers, a little goes a long way. That said, they can make pretty small bottles for samples as well.

Caps working, still have clogged heads though. The bulk ink system on this thing is a convoluted nightmare, so going to probably bypass it entirely and just use a set of 6 bulk tanks (CMYKWClr). Guess I should start taking pictures and stuff. The thing is a beast of a printer, but the insane ink...

Check the lamp glass to see if it has buildup on it?

$107/liter isn't terrible. Which ink you using it with? LUS-150/120/etc?

But you bumped the thread, shame!

If it's Indonesia, it's a scam.

I think STS inks sells chips for only like $10 each. Coink wants like $20.

Could just be a bad head.

Cap top alignment can shift, or might not be done right in the first place. Good to go through the procedures to make sure it's actually sitting right on the nozzle plate.

I still have about 12 bottles of PR-200 primer from machines I've converted back to ink (the stuff nukes printheads) and it works semi-decent as a brush-on primer. Expensive, if you buy it at retail, but does the job in some cases.

No real way to get around that short of reflashing or replacing the chips. Was probably calculating cycles as it sat dormant. Are you at least getting clean nozzle checks?

What's your nozzle check look like? Might have air in the head.

Hey now, that's my secret fun when purging a head, run 600 dpi, 30 passes and ending up with a rubber blanket I can peel off the print and giggle at unnecessarily.

There's a bug going on when posting saying there is an error today, just ignore it and manually verify it posted. Annoying, but not critical.

4 Threads is a bit excessive.. Check your cap alignment and make sure your wiper's clean.

We run LUS-150 in a JFX500 and LUS-120 in a JFX200 (weird, but the printer came with that ink) and both are a bit dodgy on acrylic. Surface prep and luck seem to be key, promoters might be a good bet. Make sure it's actually rated to work for acrylic and not just a generic adhesive promoter...

Try removing and re-adding the printer in the print manager. To avoid losing print jobs, you can set it as a file printer and then change it back to IP.

Mimaki UCJV300-160 is a workhorse, recently replaced with the UCJV330, the 300 is around $10K on the used market and the new 330 is just under $30K retail. Not messed with the 330 much but seems to be doing good so far. Also the bulk bottle ink system is about the cheapest way to go for ink per...

Yeah, default sleep time of 30 minutes is silly, we set ours to 180 minutes. Not like it has a heater, so idle power is minimal. Go to Menu>Machine Setup> should be first option. Another nice perk is aftermarket ink support as well as the 1L bottle system. So much waste ink leftover in cartridge...