Left magenta missing, please help

[Kilmore]

Hi, first time posting.
I’m swedish so please have patience with my english..

Im looking for some help in troubleshooting my Mimaki cjv150-160 that I just bought.

It worked fine at the sellers place.
Back at my place. I immediatly connected it to power, and after a few hours I did a testprint, all channels was fine except the left magenta.
That first magenta channel didn’t print a single nozzle.

I’ve done some troubleshooting myself but now im stuck. Here is what I tried.

1. Swopped 1st-2nd dampers places. Colors changed after a few test prints, and the magenta were now just fine , but via another channel, this tells me the problem is not in the ink lines, but in the print head or in the signal to the printhead. Right?
2. I took out the dampers again, and very carefully flushed the magenta channel with mimaki cleaning solution, no problem at all with that. Put the damper back, did a fill/clean,
3. Moved the printhead over to the left and looked underneeth, when i gently pressed the damper primer, there was a nice thin line of magenta coming out of the printheads first channel. This tells me the head is not clogged, right?
4. According to the service manual I checked I/O board and head unit via the test points. All good
5. I tested to unplug and reconnect the ffc cables in the I/O board and the slider board. No change

I read in another thread, that it is unusual that a single channel/line goes out in a printhead due to internal printhead error.

Any ideas, anything else I can try or test?
I really cant afford a new printhead..

And if not, is there a rip software from wich I can select 4 of the 8 channels to get a slower but working printer?

All help, tips and trix is very appriciated

/Kilmore

 

[Smoke_Jaguar]

Check your capping station gap, moving a printer can cause all sorts of weirdness and it isn't at all uncommon to have to redo adjustments afterwards.

 

[Ogre]

I have a similar problem with the same printer model, just in my case the right magenta disappeared overnight.
I have changed the dampers, the capping, redo the adjustments, vacuum pump, but nothing worked.
Kilmore If you resolve this problem, can you please post here what you did?

 

[Kilmore]

Check your capping station gap, moving a printer can cause all sorts of weirdness and it isn't at all uncommon to have to redo adjustments afterwards.

Thank you Smoke_Jaguar
I think I’ve read like hundreds av threads trying to figure things out.
I’ll try to adjust the cap height if I can figure out the weird instruction in the service manual

 

[Kilmore]

I took a photo of the printhead, it looks a bit of to one side left-right. But i have one of those older non adjustable stopping block on my cap assembly. Is there another way to adjust the capping position left-right?