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6042 MkIIe lining up printheads

CES020

New Member
I successfully picked up the used machine that was listed for sale on this forum. Got it installed, powered up, been cleaning it up and changing filters, etc. I printed a photo and had it put white on top (on clear acrylic) and there's a colored line across the top of the image that didn't get white printed on it. When I look at it under magnification, it's Cyan and Yellow, and it appears to be about 10 pixels or less of just those 2 colors. I imagine the next step is to do the printhead alignment? It's been years since I had to line up printheads.

Just for reference, they had a storm come through and got a power surge and the tech replaced all the heads a while back. So I'm guessing that the tech just plopped the new heads in, hit go, and left.

The printhead tests are perfect, so I know the heads are good, but can you refresh my memory on the procedure to go through for getting those dialed in? I thought it was really odd that it was Cyan and Yellow, when they aren't in the same head, but if I remember correctly, that's controlled by software, not mechanical adjustments, right?

Any light (or heavy) guidance would be appreciated!
 

Smoke_Jaguar

Man who touches printers inappropriately.
Don't usually need voltage, but yeah, need to do alignment. On the road so don't have service manual handy.
 

Tatonka

New Member
#Adjust-Head Adjust:

"Slant adjust" is mechanical by adjusting the knob at the front
"Position adjust" is mechanical front/back
"Print Adjust - SiDir" is electronic, and will move the dots left to right to line up with the black head
 
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CES020

New Member
You all got any preferred materials to run all those tests on? White paper makes the primer, clear, and white invisible. Clear acrylic tends to have static and pulls ink around oddly (under high magnification. I got the CMYK all lined up, need to work on the others now.
 

Tatonka

New Member
You all got any preferred materials to run all those tests on? White paper makes the primer, clear, and white invisible. Clear acrylic tends to have static and pulls ink around oddly (under high magnification. I got the CMYK all lined up, need to work on the others now.
I like matte grey vinyl.
 
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