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Mimaki JV100-160B problem with textured materials

studio10

New Member
Greetings to all.

Mimaki JV100-160B, ink CS250 bottle type. The plotter printed about 9000m2, 3 years old, in excellent condition. Maintenance is regular. Dampers, printheads, caps, ink lines...everything is ok.
There is no problem when printing pvc, baner, blue back or city light papier. Have a lot of problems when printing on textured materials, most often when printing uniform solid colors, irregularities appear in the scanning direction. The irregularities are not identical, they manifest themselves like irregular lines and uneven tone. See picture below.

I have tried over 10 types of textured materials, and the best quality Avery MPI 8000 series or Desardi. Same problem.
I tried all possible options, but still don't have a solution.

The only thing that somewise improves the print quality is:

1. Plotter settings:
1.1. Setup/FeedSpeed 70%
1.2. Setup/MAPS4/Manual Speed 50%, SmoothingLevel 100%
1.3. Pre/Print/Post Heater 30/35/40 or 35/40/45

2. RasterLink7 settings:
2.1. Profile/GenPVC or Papier
2.2. Resolution/720x1200 or 720x900
2.3. Preset/ForSign, Fastprint/Normal

But this way it is much slower printing.
Do you have any advice or help, any profile, preset, setup...
It's not a problem with the material because I've tried almost all quality textured materials!

TextureMaterial_2.jpg TextureMaterial_1.jpg
 

studio10

New Member
Thanks to guys in the diferent Mimaki groups and after numerous adjustments and tests, for printing on textured materials, especially when printing solid colors, only with the settings below, I can get quality print:

1. Plotter settings:
1.1. Setup/FeedSpeed 70%
1.2. Setup/MAPS4/Manual Speed 50%, SmoothingLevel 100%
1.3. Pre/Print/Post Heater 25/25/35.
1.4. Print Head set to High position.

2. RasterLink7 settings:
2.1. Profile/Papier/Hexis PM150V2
2.2. Resolution/720x1200
2.3. Preset/ForSign, Fastprint/High (Default).
Slower print, but best quality so far, and only way for now. See pictures below.
 

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Smoke_Jaguar

Man who touches printers inappropriately.
MAPS is basically dithering, and yeah, tuning that can go a LONG way to helping get rid of the fuzzy look. Most people don't even realize it is on, nonetheless how to tune it.
 
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