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Chapter 5 Troubleshooting
Ink tank warning appears
If an ink tank trouble is detected, a warning message
appears.
None of printing, cleaning and all the other operations that
use ink is available.
If an abnormality occurs, perform the following
procedures:
• Check the ink amount in the ink tank and if the ink amount
is not enough, add ink.
Displaying the description of ink bottle
trouble
The contents of ink bottle error are confirmable by the
following operations.
1
Press the key in Local.
If an error related to the Sub Tank
occurs (Error 618 to 61b)
The Error 618 to 61b are related to the sub tank.
Execute following procedures when an error about sub
tank occurs, or when the nozzle is not unclogged after
cleaning.
1
Press the
(MENU)
in Local.
2
Press to select “Maintenance”,
and press the key.
• Maintenance menu appears.
3
Press to select “Sub Tank”, and
press the key.
4
Press the key.
• Discharge the ink in the sub tank, and charge ink
into the tank.
When media heaves up at feeding
We call the status of heaving media at feeding “cockling”.
When media cockling occurs, check the following items:
• Once ink tank trouble is displayed, do not leave
the ink bottle without replacing it for a long time;
otherwise, the machine will lose the nozzle
missing prevention function.
If nozzles are clogged, the machine must be
repaired by MIMAKI's service engineer.
Sb310-4
1. M 90%
EXPIRATION 2MONTH
2. C 80%
No Error
3.
Y
80%
No Error
4.
K
80%
No Error
Note/ checking
items
Measures
Checking media
set status
(1) Check that the media is set
straight and reset it.
Adjusting heater
temperature
(1) Upper print-heaters’
temperatures.
Media feeding
(1) For roll media, feed the media by
about tens of centimeters to one
meter.
(2) For leaf media, press [][]
and perform feed/ back feed.
Do not leave the
media in the
heater warming
status
(1) Do not start printing with the
media cockled because it may
cause media jam.
Heighten the
head
(1) For the thick media, make the
head gap higher before printing.