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Hello, I'm new to this forum. I recently purchased a 100MV ... - Feb 06, 2021 by mendez

These machines are known for this. Keep reseating the chip o... - Feb 08, 2021 by bobpan

I spend several hours resetting both chips and no luck. I h... - Feb 08, 2021 by mendez

Make sure the pins on the chip on the main display are not b... - Feb 08, 2021 by bobpan

Do you recommend soldering the chip to the available smd sur... - Feb 08, 2021 by mendez

I would not because it could be the mylar that has an issue.... - Feb 08, 2021 by bobpan

The mylar is just the keyboard and has its own connector. Al... - Feb 08, 2021 by mendez

For some reason i remember reseating the mylar and it workin... - Feb 08, 2021 by bobpan

Honestly speaking, do you recommend fixing the printer? Is i... - Feb 08, 2021 by mendez

I believe sigmaprint is out of business....but Reprint still... - Feb 08, 2021 by bobpan

Do you have any direct contact for reprint? Is this their s... - Feb 08, 2021 by mendez

That is the site. I do not have a direct contact but i proba... - Feb 08, 2021 by bobpan

Great. I just send them an email; I appreciate your support.... - Feb 08, 2021 by mendez

I think in the machine configuration there is an option to u... - Feb 08, 2021 by bobpan

Hi, so I was able to turn the machine on for a few seconds. ... - Feb 08, 2021 by mendez

1. The resistor is normally hot. 2. If the machine is crashi... - Feb 09, 2021 by bobpan

Thanks! Do you happen to have copy of the manuals? or any do... - Feb 09, 2021 by mendez

Contact George at PPM in New Hampshire. He knows these mach... - Mar 03, 2021 by ProcEng1

Thanks a lot! I sent the boards to REPRINT in UK, and I'm wa... - Mar 04, 2021 by mendez

We used to have 5 of these in service and they worked great.... - Mar 04, 2021 by ProcEng1

Thats good to hear. I have (1) extra boards for the LCD and ... - Mar 04, 2021 by mendez

Yep. I kept a lot of the parts from the ones we took out of ... - Mar 04, 2021 by ProcEng1

If you ever have the acrylic LCD part with keypad and willin... - Mar 04, 2021 by mendez

Send me an email with a photo of what you mean. ... - Mar 04, 2021 by ProcEng1

I tried to send you a direct message to ask for your email b... - Mar 04, 2021 by mendez

If you click on my name, the option comes up to email me. ... - Mar 04, 2021 by ProcEng1

I just sent two emails...I'm not getting a cc of the emails ... - Mar 04, 2021 by mendez

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 6 February, 2021

Hello,

I'm new to this forum. I recently purchased a 100MV Screen printer and unfortunately; it arrived damaged. I was able to turn the unit on and I was able to get the unit do the initiation process (ex. datums).

When I tried to do a sample PRINT operation; then a vacuum menu window showed and immediately the LCD became non-responsive. I restarted the unit and still non responsive.

I tried removing the IC of the LCD and the main board and re-installing it; and still no response.

Any help will be appreciated.

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Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 8 February, 2021

These machines are known for this. Keep reseating the chip on the display board. The mylar display looks pretty bad and may need replaced.

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 8 February, 2021

I spend several hours resetting both chips and no luck.

I have a question: The lcd not displaying could be the main controller board?

Does anyone sell parts for this machine ?

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 8 February, 2021

Make sure the pins on the chip on the main display are not bent or tarnished...i have scraped the bottom of the legs before.

I would try Reprint in UK. I think they still have parts.

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 8 February, 2021

Do you recommend soldering the chip to the available smd surface pad?

Did you mean https://www.sigmaprint.co.uk/?

Thanks

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 8 February, 2021

I would not because it could be the mylar that has an issue.

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 8 February, 2021

The mylar is just the keyboard and has its own connector. All the keys seems to work well (the lcd pcb has some leds and they blink when I push each key). The lcd is soldered on the display board.

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 8 February, 2021

For some reason i remember reseating the mylar and it working but it was probably just lucky and fixed a bad connection somewhere else on the board. I know we also reseated the ribbon cable.

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 8 February, 2021

Honestly speaking, do you recommend fixing the printer? Is it very reliable?

I tried calling sigmaprint.co.uk but they did not answer. The have no working links in their site and they might be out of business?

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 8 February, 2021

I believe sigmaprint is out of business....but Reprint still has a working webpage so they should be able to help you. I like those printers but they are very old and the boards can cause intermittent problems.

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 8 February, 2021

Do you have any direct contact for reprint?

Is this their site ? https://www.reprintinternational.com/

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 8 February, 2021

That is the site. I do not have a direct contact but i probably know a few of the guys. I believe they used to work for smtech along time ago.

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 8 February, 2021

Great. I just send them an email; I appreciate your support.

Quick question: I found it odd that the printer seems to be working fine when I turn it on for the first time. But as soon as I push the two "PRINT" buttons, a window of VAC came up and the letters in the LCD had some sort of error/miss-characters. Could it be possible that maybe one of the motors is bad and something got smoked and is just not allowing the LCD to communicate with the main board?

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 8 February, 2021

I think in the machine configuration there is an option to use the vacuum or not. Its been a long time but i think you just just skip past the vac message if it pops up. Pust both left buttons at the same (under the display) time to get into the machine settings.

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 8 February, 2021

Hi, so I was able to turn the machine on for a few seconds. It looks like the IC on the LCD doesn't have goo contact because it's very hard to keep the machine operational. I was able to see the table lifting for the first time; it was so cool! but then it stopped working again...

I have a few questions:

1. I noticed that there is a resistor close to the IC and it gets very hot to the point you can't touch it. Is this normal? I noticed is connected parallel to the power of the LCD screen so I figure it was normal.

2. Can you share a picture of your limit switches for the head? It will go back half way and then it will crash in the front and go to the main menu screen. Is this normal?

I was in the maintenance menu, and I tried to move the head towards the front or back and it crashed really bad.

3. I attached a screen capture of how the LCD looks when I try to do a quick print calibration.

Thanks for your help!

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Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 9 February, 2021

1. The resistor is normally hot. 2. If the machine is crashing towards the front then the system settings need reset. Do this by pressing and releasing the e stop then pressing both front left buttons on the mylar below the lcd screen. Go into the machine configuration and reset system parameters....after it homes you will have to reteach the front and rear limits and the squeegie blade postions for printing.

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 9 February, 2021

Thanks! Do you happen to have copy of the manuals? or any documentation at all to do what you just explained for doing the system reset.

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 3 March, 2021

Contact George at PPM in New Hampshire. He knows these machines very well and usually has any parts for way less than SigmaPrint

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 4 March, 2021

Thanks a lot! I sent the boards to REPRINT in UK, and I'm waiting to get them deliver to do the final testing.

Are these printers very reliable? I heard that if you have the stencil cleaner (my has) to avoid using it since it was a bad design and burns the power board.

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 4 March, 2021

We used to have 5 of these in service and they worked great. Only 1 had the stencil wiper, and we did not utilize it. We've since installed all inline printers, but we do keep 1 MV100 on the floor as a back up. The firmware can get squirrely and the ICs often need to be re-seated to clear up issues. When the touch pen and vision system start to go, parts are very rare. Sometimes the machine will just sort of lock up and not want to do anything, but 9 times out of ten, we go in and set parameters to default and it clears right up.

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 4 March, 2021

Thats good to hear. I have (1) extra boards for the LCD and the Motion drivers in case something gets damaged later because as you mentioned; parts are very difficult to find (or super expensive)

I did soldered the IC chip on the LCD unit and get REPRINT to inspect it and it seems to work...will see.

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 4 March, 2021

Yep. I kept a lot of the parts from the ones we took out of service just to keep the last one running.

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 4 March, 2021

If you ever have the acrylic LCD part with keypad and willing to sell it let me know.

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 4 March, 2021

Send me an email with a photo of what you mean.

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 4 March, 2021

I tried to send you a direct message to ask for your email but I don't know if it went through.

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 4 March, 2021

If you click on my name, the option comes up to email me.

Screen Printer Help - 100MV UP100 or Quad 100MV | 4 March, 2021

I just sent two emails...I'm not getting a cc of the emails that is why I think is not going through. See attachment for my address.

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