HM1 Head Cable & Mainboard

Tools needed: Phillips #1 and #2 screwdrivers. Phillips #1 ratcheting screwdriver (or stubby), paper towels, tape (cloth or masking, not duct). 1) Remove the blue covers from the machine. Start with the front cover. There are two screws on either side, and one screw on each side of the front of the cover. These are all #1 Phillips screws. Unplug the fan from the left side. Set the cover aside. 2) The back cover has two small plates covering the ink lines on each side. Remove those covers rst. Then there are two screws on each side and one screw in the middle. Use your #2 Phillips to remove the two screws that hold the WIMS system to the cover. You can now lift the cover straight up and o of the machine. The cover sometimes gets hung up on the power button assembly. Be careful of that, and be careful not to snag the ink lines as you remove it.

3) Unplug the USB cable and the power cable. Remove the screws circled in red to begin freeing the mainboard assembly. If you are replacing the mainboard, also remove the screw circled in yellow. The screw circled on the left of the above image is on the side of the mainboard assembly.

4) Free the two pieces of black tape and remove the screw circled in red from the control panel side of the mainboard assembly. Free the control panel wires from the grey plastic clip.

5) Unscrew the two screws holding the board frame assembly in order to give us space to work.

6) Lean the board frame assembly away from the mainboard assembly as pictured below.

7) Free the mainboard assembly as pictured below.

8) Before unplugging all of the ribbon cables, MAKE SURE that they are labelled. If not, use a Sharpie to label each cable. the numbers for the cable are as follows: Outside cables (furthest outside), from top to bottom:12,11,8,5. Inside cables (on the left in the above picture), from top to bottom: 10,9,14,13. Unplug these cables one at a time by pulling them straight out of their slots. Do not twist the cables or pull them out at an angle. 9) Next unplug the four wires from the mainboard, located beneath all of the ribbon cables. Each cable has a di erent connector. They are: Red, White, Black 4-pin, and Black 2-pin.

10) If you are replacing the mainboard, do so now. First grasp either side of the white connector that they grey power cable is plugged into. Lift on either side to release the connector. Carefully remove the grey cable, making sure not to bend the pins. Then unscrew the four screws holding the board to the assembly. Screw the new board into place (Dont forget the very small screw right above the USB connector that you removed earlier. Then insert the grey cable into the new board, and push on either side of the white connector to secure the cable.

11) To remove the head cable, next unscrew the six sscrews that hold the leaf springs in place underneath where the mainboard assembly sits. Also remove the two screw from underneath. Use your stubby or ratcheting screwdriver.

12) Next remove the two screw holding the back side of the mainboard assembly back to the frame. You will need a very short screwdriver for this. ratcheting screwdrivers work best. These two screws are impossible to access with a normal screwdriver.

13) Remove the screws from the left and right side of the mainboard assembly back piece.

14) Remove the mainboard assembly back piece. You can now see the ribbon cable holder, outlined in red below.

15) The ribbon cable holder is secured with plastic tabs sticking through the front of the machine. Some of these tabs are highlighted in the picture below.

16) To release the ribbon cable holder, slide it in the direction of the arrows in these two pictures to release the plastic tabs. The rst picture is taken from the back of the machine. the second is from the front. The arrows are going the SAME direction.

17) After the ribbon cable holder has slides out so that the plastic tabs are free, it must be removed. The metal hook on the right side of this picture will cause the holder to break if you force it out, so be very gentle and careful to not break the holder as you work it free of this hook.

18) It is time to remove the ribbon cables from the print head. Begin by unscrewing the wingnuts from either side of the head carriage. Unclip the white ink tubes. Your head carriage cover may be di erent than the one pictured here. Lift the tractor o of the two pins onto of the carriage cover, and then carefully remove the carriage cover.

19) Lift all of the dampers o the print head. Be careful not to squeeze the sides of the dampers so that you dont get ink everywhere. Be especially careful not to drip ink on the print head itself. Leave the dampers hanging over a paper towe for now.

20) Use your ngernails to gently pry up the tabs holding the ribbon cable cover. Use a screwdriver to gently press in the bottom tab, and slide the cover up and o .

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21) Unscrew the three screws securing the print head. The se are #1 screws, and it is VERY important that you do not strip the threads when reinserting the print head. When reinserting the head, back the screws up until they click into place before driving them. 22) Lift the print head out of the carriage, being careful to not damage the ribbonn cables highlighted in this picture.

23) Unplug the cables from the print head by gently pulling them straight out of their connectors. If you see ink on the end of the ribbon cables, like the blue end pictured below, that is why you are replacing them. In this case, the print head will have to be replacerd as well. Most head cable problems are not this obvious.

24) Begin unthreading the ribbon cables from the holder from the end in the left of this picture rst. There is one ribbon cable on the back side of the holder which also must be unthreaded from the holder.

25) To remove the ribbon cables from the right side of the holder, hold them as pictured below, then slide them down to free them from the top tab, then up to remove.

26) You can now pull the head cables out completely. Make sure to keep them together. Before putting the new head cables in, lay the old obnes out on a table. Then lay the new ones next to them. Position them exactly the same, then LABEL THE NEW CABLES AT THE MAINBOARD END with your Sharpie. 28) Put a small piece of tape on either side of the ribbon cables as pictured. This tape is just to prevent the ribbon cables being damaged as you pass theem through the slot on the front of the machine. The tape WILL have to be removed in order to get the cables back into the holder, so dont make it impossible to remove.

29) Reassembly is everything we just did, in reverse. Use this guide to see how things are positioned, and which screws you should use. Generally, screws with built-in washers screw into the frame of the machine, and pan head screws (with now washers) screw into parts. NOTES: When reassembling, the most frustrating part is getting the ribbon cable holder back into position. Often there are pieces of tape on the front side of the machine that prevent the plastic tabs from going back into the proper slot. Temporarily move the tape if necessary. When plugging the mainboard back in, double check to make sure that the four wires are plugged back in before powering the machine back on. One of them is quite short and has a tendency to pop out if the mainboard assembly is moved around.