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SP 300 Versacamm won’t print yellow or magenta
Printing all morning without a problem, then all of a sudden between prints, the printer has stopped printing yellow and magenta… Anybody got any ideas what it could be? A pump gone? Have cleaned it repeatedly but to no avail.
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9 Replies
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Try switching it off and on. Have had that before
Mart -
have you checked ink status? has it been left for a while standing?
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Yellow and Magenta are on the same head so you could have a connection problem. Try cleaning the encoder strip.
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Hi Martin,
What solution do you use to clean the encoder strip and what kind of cloth is best?
Mark
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Thanks Martin, I Will Try That
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Just a slightly damp clothe, its only dust.
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I’ve cleaned the strip but it still won’t print magenta or yellow.
Roland tell me the main board might need changed -and apparently that means the head might need changed too. I got a price of £2680 for all the work sounds very expensive does anyone know where you would get a more reasonable price or maybe second hand board and head. -
couple of possibilities.
head gone or the fuse on the MB that protects the head or combination.
if you can find a good electrical guy/girl it is a relatively simple process to replace the fuse or the better option of soldering in an inline fuse holder so if it blows again you can just replace the fuse.
i would test the fuses with a multimeter first just to make sure that is the issue.
this usually happens when ink is spilt on a head circuit, in which the head will probably be dead, or if a data cable is disconnected while power is turned on. cable sparks and shorts. this USUALLY only takes out the fuse not the head but not always.
if you replace the fuse with a holder and just try it, the worst that should happen if you turn it back on is the fuse will blow again.
the bottom right of the pic should show a versacamm board i repaired just waiting for fuse holders to be fitted.
BTW the encoder strip has absolutely nothing to do with the heads firing or not firing only with the placement of dots and the position of the head carriage.
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have you checked the pump? get a syringe and manually suck the ink back into the tubes and try again? I think it would be well worth getting an engineer out to have a look before buying a new board!
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