thewvsignguy
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We purchased a 1204, Q54 and Flexi 10 about 4 1/2 years ago. The equipment has worked great for us both the cutter and the printer, until a few weeks ago...
I came in one morning about a month ago to the printer beeping and the orange light flashing. There was an error message (that I did not write down) other then wiper error something.
I did a quick google search and the solution was to clean really good around the wiper, so I did that and all was good for about two weeks. Last week the printer went to clean itself between prints and in the cleaning process there was a loud grinding noise that lasted maybe 2 sec but it did complete the clean cycle. It does not grind every-time it cleans itself only sometimes. So I happen to stop in the shop Sunday and again the printer was beeping and the orange light was flashing and the printhead was sitting about 2" to the left of the maint station. I turned the printer off, moved the head back over the maint station and turned the printer on and did 2 light clean cycles. It went through the clean cycles without grinding and the nozzle check was great.
Today printing looked great at first but during a clean cycle it did the grind, after the grind I started to get odd streaky areas (see attached), I don't know if it's electrical, encoder or what but the printer need some TLC. We clean the printer at least 2 times a week, more if we do heavy printing.. We print between 2-5 hours per day of steady printing. The inside is very clean and I take very good care of this piece of equipment. I have only replaced the wiper (twice in it's life) and only use OEM MUTOH Ink, I also lube the rail every 6 months.
Media was Avery 2906 and have a few rolls of this without issue, yet.
So I assume I need a maint station, dampers and anything else that I should do a PM at this time. Any help would be great!
I came in one morning about a month ago to the printer beeping and the orange light flashing. There was an error message (that I did not write down) other then wiper error something.
I did a quick google search and the solution was to clean really good around the wiper, so I did that and all was good for about two weeks. Last week the printer went to clean itself between prints and in the cleaning process there was a loud grinding noise that lasted maybe 2 sec but it did complete the clean cycle. It does not grind every-time it cleans itself only sometimes. So I happen to stop in the shop Sunday and again the printer was beeping and the orange light was flashing and the printhead was sitting about 2" to the left of the maint station. I turned the printer off, moved the head back over the maint station and turned the printer on and did 2 light clean cycles. It went through the clean cycles without grinding and the nozzle check was great.
Today printing looked great at first but during a clean cycle it did the grind, after the grind I started to get odd streaky areas (see attached), I don't know if it's electrical, encoder or what but the printer need some TLC. We clean the printer at least 2 times a week, more if we do heavy printing.. We print between 2-5 hours per day of steady printing. The inside is very clean and I take very good care of this piece of equipment. I have only replaced the wiper (twice in it's life) and only use OEM MUTOH Ink, I also lube the rail every 6 months.
Media was Avery 2906 and have a few rolls of this without issue, yet.
So I assume I need a maint station, dampers and anything else that I should do a PM at this time. Any help would be great!
