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Black not printing or being pulled through – help please?
Hi Guys,
I hope someone can help or head this problem before.
My Grenadier 1400 or Soljet has decided not to print black. I’ve tried pulling ink through the ink lines manually with a syringe. I capped off the ink to the other head so its just pulling on the black, but nothing, its really hard to pull. Its like its blocked somewhere. Ive tried flushing it with flush carts but not even that is getting through to the head. If i take off the dampers and see if air is going through the head with a syringe will that damage the head, if airs goes through the head then I know I have a blockage in the ink lines going to the head, but I’m finding it hard to believe that both ink lines can be blocked or even both dampers at the same time.
Hope someone has had this problem before and can let me know how they fixed it as I’m going out of my mind and work is getting put off because of it.
Thank you for reading this.
From Mark A Brown
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4 Replies
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by the sounds of it i would remove the pipe from the damper and give that a suck, if ink comes then the damper or head may be blocked.
i would not force fluid through the head cos of the spray if goes wrong will go all over the electronics, best pull from the cap top tube. -
Hi Chris
I pulled off the damper and tried pulling ink through that with a syringe. But was still hard to pull ink through. Well nothing really came out. Will try a stage up the line next.
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If you’re going to try syringing through the head, I would recommend using a damper on the end of the syringe. That way, if you push too hard, you’ll burst the £x damper rather than the £xxx printhead/gasket/filter/manifold.
As you say, it is a case of trying to get air/ink/flush through individual parts, that way you should be able to whittle down which part is blocked. My best guess is the cap. Try swapping them from one position to another to prove it.
Stafford
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still having problems with my black ink head, the head itself is printing, it start off printing fine then its like it runs out of ink. I’ve replaced the dampers on both sides and they fill up with ink when priming the ink lines.
I’ve slowed down the print speed to see if it not getting fed ink quick enough but still the same.
I managed to print 4 meters of prints yesterday and now back to square one. This all started happening after I move to a new unit. was very careful while moving
from Mark
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