Mimaki UJF 605c
As far as my Mimaki Machine I will get together a few things for you even though now the paperwork is as thick as "War and Peace"
Regarding this Mimaki Machine, so much has gone wrong I suppose I will just start from the beginning
I will send photos soon, as It is all at the factory, and I"m sending this mail from home
PROBLEMS WITH MIMAKI UJF605c
1/ First 4 months after installation " INK DRIPPING FROM HEADS AND HEAD CARRIAGE ONTO JOB"
2/ At the same time this was happening there was substaintial "NOZZLE DROP OUT 30%" This was the major problem
after 3 years of this happening they sent there Top Tech Guy "Mr Terashima" after 2 days of pulling the machine apart it worked for 11 months
All 7 heads were replaced at this time , previous to this there would have been another 7 replaced , Funnnily enough all colours were replaced except for the white which I thought was where the problem would have been before I bought the machine, Even though they didn't tell me there was whispers amongst themselves ,(that I had deducted ) that the heads on the machine had not had a small rectangular copper grounding plate installed at anytime, it went from the head to the head carriage, the reason i know this is that Mr Terashima had asked to see the older heads that had been replaced ( Which I had paid $30,000.00 for and that they had taken back to japan and promised a report on them of which i never recieved , you see I believe those heads were good its just that the copper plate had never been installed as the copper plate was still in the bag)
3/ Ghosting or over spraying of nozzles
4/ The sensors on the side of the table would not work properly and stop a job half way through regularly
5/ Constant errors on the LCD ( that didn't apply to the above problems)
6/ At the moment the machine has broken down again and they don't know what it is ! ( more money to spend)
7/ I had asked for the machine to be replaced (In writing) after the first 2 months( Plus in the interim there is about 200 emails) and they agreed , but then just sent a tech guy
I used to ring japan every couple of days as I believe it is the maufacturers problem not the distributor( as I wasn't getting anywhere with them anyway)
The furtherest up the ladder I got by phone was Mr Fujita , I explained my problem , but here we are, nothing happened, so after now into my sixth year with this machine
I originally paid $150,000.00 plus $7,000.00 for airconditioning that they said was the problem (within the first couple of months), About $40,000.00 in heads plus
I've nearly died of stress and heartache over this machine, the machine has worked for about 18 months intermittintly over the period of ownership , and how about this the distributor won't take it as a trade-in, so it will make a good ships anchor
