There are times when your printer may experience a loss of extrusion condition. The print head may be moving with no material coming out of one or both of the tips. To diagnose and recover from a loss of extrusion condition go into Maintenance Mode. Press Maintenance-Machine-Head The head will move to the center of the chamber. The display will read Model Drive Motor Stopped. Press Forward and the drive motor should start turning. It may take up to 30 seconds […]
Print Head Alignment for PolyJet Desktop Printers You may find your parts have some rough edges over time or after replacing or swapping your print head locations on your Objet printer. This can be due to the heads being out of alignment and need to be adjusted. Doing the adjustment is fairly automated and easy to do. You will need your clear transparency sheets, scotch tape (optional), and a magnifier or loupe to look at the print to do […]
Data Shifting and Reseating Head Cards on PolyJet Printer From time to time, on your Objet Desktop PolyJet printer, you may see your print offset print in the X or Y direction. This happens when the information coming from Objet Studio was not processed correctly internally, or the machine itself has confused itself and loses its reference. There is a possibility there is an issue internal to the machine with boards or cables, but this is a way to […]
Your Objet Desktop can display an error related to heads filling while it is printing. This can be due to numerous thing but most commonly they are from the machine being out of calibration.First thing that should be done is to make sure your load cells are in calibration and try to print again. If the error repeats then move on to doing the heads filling calibration. For more information on the load cell calibration you can access it from […]