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can anyone help with printheads been left during holiday?
Hey guys,
I left my machine for 1 week and a half running in StandyBy mode with a self clean running every 10 hours. All print heads were working top notch before I went on holiday. When I returned both middle printheads (Yellow & black) are not printing one little bit of which I thought maybe they are blocked of which I’ve soaked them overnight with cleaning solution via service mode by lowering the caps n filling them with solution (this usually works a treat but not this time)
It’s very strange why both has stopped working at the same time as I know that they both use the same pump etc but I can see this spinning when doing a clean cycle.
Would there be a fuse or anything that may have blown? or any way to test to see if the print heads are still firing.
Cheers guys your help will be much appreciated. If someone knows a solution I’ll buy you a few pints 🙂
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check if the wast pipes are clear.
I had this sort of thing a wile back also check if you have suction in the capping station.
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thanks for the reply, how to I check for suction, I can see the excess running to the waste when doing a clean thats fine.
When i’m in service mode I see the option to check the pumps etc, as of suction & release but is there a way to check it?
cheers jamie.
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does that mean that a pipe per colour on the waste (i am jv3 owner), all pipes needs to dripping
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All drain pipes from capping station must be fully clear for full suction to occur, i find yellow/cyan drain pipe is the worst to clog up on a JV3
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yeah they are 3 waste pipes i’m sure, one for each pump (i think but dont quote me on this) of which these seem to be clear, yeah when cleaning I see yellow going into the drain bottle.
I’m racking my brains trying to figuire this out, from working 100% to nothing in the spare of a week and a half hmm strange.
do you know if there are any fuses to check, or any cables I could swap over to check
Cheers again,
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ok.. so suction sounds fine…
if this was a jv3…. sounds like fusing issue in the header board.. which is bad news.
this can happen if the cables were accidentally plugged into the other side of the head.
To test this, you can swap another heads cables and put them into the other head, making sure the left cable is in the the left side and the right in the right side… so basically swapping heads without moving them out of the printer.
DO THIS AT YOUR RISK
Dave
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Hi Dave,
Cheers for the info, the printer has been working perfect before I left for holiday and no one else uses the printer. Does anyone think the fuse might have blown or anything, I see the fuses on the headboard but these things are tiny, how would I remove these also would I need to contact Roland for they type of fuses?
Cheers guys.
Jamie
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actually does anyone know of an engineer or someone that knows what their doing around the Glasgow area? that would be a little easier 🙂
Cheers Jamie.
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quote Dave Rowland:ok.. so suction sounds fine…
if this was a jv3…. sounds like fusing issue in the header board.. which is bad news.
this can happen if the cables were accidentally plugged into the other side of the head.
To test this, you can swap another heads cables and put them into the other head, making sure the left cable is in the the left side and the right in the right side… so basically swapping heads without moving them out of the printer.
DO THIS AT YOUR RISK
Dave
Dave,
Thanks for the info, I’ve done this and yeah the heads fire perfectly, do you think maybe the fuse has just blown for the middle heads, (it’s the same fuse that runs both them) also would anyone know where to get those fuses (as those are tiny little things)
Cheers again guys, Jamie
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Jamie
from what you are saying i ‘m presuming the printer is SC or XC, if so then yes there are 3 fuses. Use a multi-meter to check each fuse, the fuses are hard to get so go direct to Roland, only pennies. However with mine the second time it happened the board had a further problem that required the board to be replaced at just over a £1000.00.Kev
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Hi Kev,
Yeah I’ve got the XC-540. I spoke to Colin Tupman yesterday about this problem, he gave me great guides etc, I’ve blown 5 fuses testing everything, I’ve got 1 more check to do in the morning. I did swap over the cables from the Print Carriage Board for fuse3 into Yellow of which the yellow printed perfectly… of which I never tested it by switching the cables to black (I wish I did now) Then I would have knew the heads were perfect or not… For some reason I’m beginning to believe that it might be the Print Carriage Board that’s knacked…
On digiprint it states that board is the same for XC-540/ XJ-640/ XJ-740 their product code is: W700311311. but another board says its only for XJ-640/ XJ-740, their product code: W700731310… It looks identical and it’s 100quid cheaper… If the cheaper one fits the XJ-640 and so does the first one, would that mean I could use the cheaper one on my machine?
Well hopefully it’s that board I’m!! Pain in the backside problem solving!
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Jamie
when i had the problem, it turned out to be the main head board (1 with the fuses) although i have a SC it was an XC board Roland supplied. With mine if you replaced the fuse it just blew even with the head cables disconnected. Take the opportunity to change the ribbon cables they aren’t expensive & it rules out the chance of the cable having a break & surging the head board not what you want on a brand new board. Roland will sometimes give you part no.s when you inquire about parts so they don’t have to look it up again when you call back. Not exactly ethical but may give you the info you need. I.m sure when i fitted my new board it had the number printed on it, has your not got anything on.Kev
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quote Kevin Flowers:Jamie
when i had the problem, it turned out to be the main head board (1 with the fuses) although i have a SC it was an XC board Roland supplied. With mine if you replaced the fuse it just blew even with the head cables disconnected. Take the opportunity to change the ribbon cables they aren’t expensive & it rules out the chance of the cable having a break & surging the head board not what you want on a brand new board. Roland will sometimes give you part no.s when you inquire about parts so they don’t have to look it up again when you call back. Not exactly ethical but may give you the info you need. I.m sure when i fitted my new board it had the number printed on it, has your not got anything on.Kev
Hi Kev,
How did you figure out it was your head board? what did you test etc? I’m trying everything at the moment as the headboard is the most expensive part there is… The fuse does blow with no cables attached to either print head that’s why my self and Colin are thinking it’s the carriage board. Which cables are you talking about changing? If it’s the cariiage board to the print head they are fine as i’ve swapped them about with fuse 1 & 3 heads and they work perfect. My carriage board might have a part number but tbh i’ve not looked yet.
Any more help would be appreciated
Cheers again, Jamie 🙂
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Jamie
its been 2 years since i changed mine but if i remember correctly i disconnected the carriage board from the head board and fuse still blew.Kev
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Great…. I never thought I could do that, would it blow before you even try a test print in service mode as of when you turn the machine on straight away? or would you need to do the test print? would this not blow all fuses as there aint a full circuit to the printhead etc?
cheers 🙂
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Jamie
mine would blow as soon as secondary power was put on, there was no other faults heads all fine just fault on board. Thing is even if Roland have this problem they use elimination to cure the problem.Kev
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quote Kevin Flowers:Jamie
mine would blow as soon as secondary power was put on, there was no other faults heads all fine just fault on board. Thing is even if Roland have this problem they use elimination to cure the problem.Kev
Cheers Kev, I’m gonna try this when I get the fuses on monday 🙂
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