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  • My roland versacamm sp 300 wont print black

    Posted by craig burgess on 26 July 2011 at 22:55

    Heres my problem, I have an versacamm sp 300 and the black ink keeps going back down the tube and wont print black

    heres what I have replaced, capping top, pump, black tube, damper and black ink cartridge,

    I feel that there are no parts to replace and it should now be working, is there something that i have missed?

    can somebody please help me, my little baby has been broken for too long and just want to get it fixed now

    cheers

    John Wilson replied 14 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  • John Dorling

    Member
    27 July 2011 at 08:39

    Have you had an engineer in to look at it?

    John

  • craig burgess

    Member
    3 August 2011 at 17:42

    nope that was my next port of call, I rang them up and they told me all the possibilities, I replaced everything they said as they are easy parts to fix, but was just hoping someone else had any ideas before I called an engineer as last time I had a problem, they was as clueless as me and changed loads of unnecessary parts and then give me a bill for a 1.5k which simply cannot afford

  • Chris Wool

    Member
    4 August 2011 at 08:39
    quote :

    heres what I have replaced, capping top, pump, black tube, damper and black ink cartridge,

    sounds possibly like a air leak as you say the black runs back, i would check that the small O ring at the base of the damper is good also the top damper connection and that the capping station does seat correctly on the base of the head,
    also never been near it but i think there is a small seal for the cart connection.

  • craig burgess

    Member
    5 August 2011 at 07:47

    That’s good information, I will order a couple of them and give that a go, will let you know how I get on…..

  • John Wilson

    Member
    5 August 2011 at 08:15

    Just be careful you don’t do more damage than good….. personally i’d just call an engineer out for a free quote before repair as i’m sure they would do that

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