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can anyone tell me why i have banding on cadet please?
Hi all, I’ve got a 2 month old Cadet Plus, and yesterday it started banding on everything I print. I’ve done every cleaning ritual I can find but it doesn’t help.
It’s happening across all media, tried using different profiles, and no joy.
I’ve got images of the banding in a PDF if that will help, but I can’t find a attachment function so just let me know if you want to see it.
thanks in advance
Nik
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7 Replies
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Have you done a ‘TEST PRINT’ to check all the heads are firing & aligned / not deflecting.
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Welcome to the world of the Cadet.
If you left it off without printing for a few days, this is what happens.
You will need to soak the heads overnight, then clean or suck through some ink, and try again.
Most of the problems I had with my Cadet, and there were a lot, were eliminated when I changed to Roland EcoSol Max inks.
Peter
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Thanks
Peter, it’s been used daily, I haven’t given anything a chance to dry up yet 😀 Will have to look into how to soak the heads though, haven’t a clue at the moment.
David, the nozzle test does show the magenta/yellow head cross contaminating. I’ve just spoken with B&P and they are looking into it. Current thinking is that the heads shouldn’t be getting blocked on a new machine, especially as the cleaning has been kept up etc. There was mention of it maybe being the pump, but I guess I’ll have to wait and see….
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quote dreamleaf:ThanksDavid, the nozzle test does show the magenta/yellow head cross contaminating. I’ve just spoken with B&P and they are looking into it. .
probably the docking station not having close correctly, do a pure print of 100%Y 100%M to help clean thoese heads
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I know you said you’ve done every cleaning ritual but have you ran a powerful clean on it?
Go to menu, cleaning and select powerful.
It usually cures most problems like this, it just pumps ink through the machine into the waste bottle, it uses more ink than a normal system clean.
Hope this helps.
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OOoooh I meant to reply to this earlier this week.
Had B&P out and it turned out that the waste magenta wasn’t draining properly, and everytime it went to print it was sucking the pool of magenta back up the head, which led to cross contamination in the yellow feed.
All sorted now, and I’ll know to check the waste next time.
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It’s mainly down to poor set up. Have you done an environment check? Is the feed calibration correct? Also make sure your heaters aren’t too high as high heat will not let the droplets spread on the vinyl once they are fired out of the nozzles thus creating banding.
Will
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