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Rockhopper 3 Strange Banding
Hi every one,
I have a Rockhopper 2 that I had upgraded to a Rockhopper 3 around 2 years ago to take the new Inks (eco-solvent ultra).
We have recently noticed that we are getting banding across the face of our prints. The best way to describe it is the if you printed a soild block of colour you get 30-40mm of colour then a slightly lighter band of 10mm colour. This will repeat all the way through, and on all our media.
I have tried all the cleaning methods our printer allows, used different profiles and changed heater settings.
I have recently spoken to an other company who are having the same problems too, has any one else heard of this before??
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14 Replies
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clean the feed rollers, if you look it will be in line with them. some materials seem to compress more with the rollers giving banding too
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The banding is running the opposite way, across the face not down the print….
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Is your machine set for automatic wiping?
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Yes, I think it’s set to wipe every 20 pass. Also I have changed the wipers, because I thought they might be contaminated.
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remove the automatic wiping, it’s not needed, that’s whats probably causing you banding.
See if that cures your problem.Ian
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Will you not get ink droplets over longer prints though?
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never had much of a problem, try it to see if it cures the banding. if it does it may be as simple as changing all the wipers and setting a lower wipe rate
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Will do thanks
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HOW DID YOU GET ON?
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my jv3 showed some signs of lawnmower effect on solid blacks earlier in BIDIRECTIONAL, all other colours were fine so profile.
Print in UNIDIRECTIONAL to check that everything is fine. -
i am thinking off buying a mutoh, well now badged uniform lancer are they a lot of rubbish cos they are awfully cheap.any comments most apprciated
cheers
simon
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Yea it worked banding gone 😀
Haven’t done any long prints yet, but it’s much better thanks!
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THAT’S GOOD TO HEAR 😀
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i had same problem
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