First post here - great forum (which thankfully I haven't had to use often) but I'm now stumped. Was just printing and heard some odd, grinding noises as the printheads traveled across the media. I was planning on letting the print finish before checking it out. The machine stopped printing and thought it had a carriage crash into the media, but that's not the case. The carriage is grinding along it's rails - and left some small metal filings as I manually moved to the capping station. I noticed if I lift the carriage upwards and towards me slightly, it moves freely so I'm thinking the carriage itself is not seated properly on the rails. Just wondering if there's an easy way to adjust this.
For what it's worth, we replaced our Arizona 180 about 4 years ago (good riddance!!) with the Seiko and this is the first major issue we've had.
ouch!! the bearings are pretty well protected, so shouldn't really fail. saying that i've seen one that needed replacing as it was running true and causing a grinding noise that you were probably getting here! just make sure that the runners are clean and the belt/cog that drive it, at the service station end, are tightened correctly, as this was the cause to my bearing wearing too fast.
