Help Soljet problem

[Kevin Flowers]

Hi
have you tried swapping cartridges, could also be a blocked damper each side of the head is served by its own damper

Kev

[Robert Lambie]

i had this on friday, turned out it was a faulty bulk ink cartridge like kev has said. just swapped it over and its worked fine. however, i was obviously oblivious to this and i too thought it a fault in the machine. did the flushes etc as you have… technician came out and did dampers and verious other things still didnt work… last thing he tried was the ink cartridge and it worked! i think he said it was the hole in the cart that blocked in some way or another.

[Stepen Wood]

cheers for the replies

we use refillable cartridges. It was actually a bit of fluff clogging the dampers. replaced the dampers – seems to be working fine.

Will replace cartridges as well, as they could have been the cause.

Its amazing how something so simple can cause panic stations and almost a whole days work wasted.

Thanks Stephen

[Robert Lambie]

your right i know the feeling mate… had various jobs to go out friday and it was something as silly as a cart issue. 🙄

[Chris Wool]

rob out of interest was this covered under your service agreement

quote :

technician came out and did dampers and verious other things still didnt work… last thing he tried was the ink cartridge and it worked! i think he said it was the hole in the cart that blocked in some way or another.

chris

[Robert Lambie]

i could be wrong but i believe it was Chris, but then again we did buy the bulk feed through b&p…
the technician came out as he suspected dampers etc the cart had a nozzle that got clogged and made the light magenta to stop coming through altogether.

[Chris Wool]

sounds to me like you will have to visit Karl’s sex shop for some vibrators,
to keep your carts satisfied 😉

chris

[Kevin Flowers]

Hi
i was told that bulk, refillable carts are supposed to be changed yearly at least due to the gauze fillter on the outlet clogging with pigment.

Kev

[Stepen Wood]

After Fixing my problem yesterday.

I have come in today to find my manifold on the cyan seems to have split. I Managed to change it. But the cyan head is now out of line.

I have accessed the service menu and carried out the head adjust tests

Can anybody help.

Many Thanks Stephen

[Chris Wool]

quote :

I have accessed the service menu and carried out the head adjust tests

what bit do you want help on

chris

[Chris Wool]

what you say kevin makes a lot of sense but never heard it said hence the use of a vibrator to keep it free

chris

[Stepen Wood]

The second pass of the test print is slighty offset to the first on the cyan.

I have seen it done but cannot remember how.

Cheers Stephen

[Chris Wool]

if its the bias head adjustment
then adjusted with a 1.5mm key through the front after loosening the head screws which should be done in order.

if the vertical adjustment the by the knob on the front after loosening the head.

where did you find a spare manifold ?

Chris

[Stepen Wood]

Thanks Chris

I have a box of old parts. My old engineer instead of isolating what the fault was, used to come and change everything until the printer was fixed.

I kept everything, I just took it of an old print head. As I say, I watched him do most of it, due to my low concentration span I don’t think i was paying attention to that bit.

Cheers for the advice no doubt I will be asking for more.

Stephen