Yeah i was wondering if it would stop.
Anyway i am still having issues with ink starvation or intermittant banding or whatever its called. The last prints i run before it came up empty on Yellow were all black with some white text with orange outline, and some very light grey areas. The black was perfect,as was the orange but the light grey areas had horrible banding as though the ink was missing. But the black on the same pass was perfect. I am going to take the third party inks out tomorrow and flush the heads and lines and try the oem mimaki inks, i think there should be enough to let me test to see if the inks are to blame.
Ive tried :
replacing dampers with high flow 2 bar type.
replacing pumps.
replacing capping station.
flushing heads.
reverse flushing lines.
different profiles.
I'm using flexi 8.6. My profile is 3m 180. hq 720 x 720 8 pass uni or bi. I am printing onto Arlon vehicle wrap film.
Both print ok apart from this streaking through certain colours.
Ive noticed if i print on standard setting the streaking is virtually eliminated but the colours are darker. If i up the dpi to 720 x 1440 or 1440 x 1440 the print is beautiful but dark.
This has got me beat.
My only choice is to go back to the oem inks and hope its a problem with the 3rd part inks. I didnt have the ink starvation before i swapped over the inks.
Has anyone had issues like this when swapping to a "cheaper" third party ink. I am starting to think this swap to cheaper inks wasnt that cheap after all.
Will update if i can fix this problem as it "WILL NOT" beat me.
Failing the inks my next move will be to take my heads and other parts and put them onto the second mimaki jv3 i have sitting in storage. I know this is a drastic move but not sure what else to do.
Cheers
George
