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Ink printing problems – sp300
Just switched on the printer this morning and fine
Printed about 5 banners then all of a sudden my inks are not coming through properly
Black is coming out pure red
And there is very vivid signs of red through my prints
Any ideas where to start on this one? 👿
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11 Replies
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Can you do a test print John. Make sure all colours are printing – could be one of the inks have run out without registering empty(even though you’re printing black – it may be trying to print this as 100% cyan magenta and yellow in stead of just black ink – in which case a lack of cyan would tend to cause a red print).
If you open the cover at the control panel you will be able to see the tubes feeding the inks to the heads. Check each tube is solid with ink and containing each colour cmy & k but in particular make sure the Cyan is getting through.
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I took the black cart out 5 minutes ago and checked it… totally empty so replaced it
So much for it registering empty 👿
So now that i’ve replaced it what’s the best way to get it printing black again? I set the machine to do a clean hoping that it will pull the ink through the pipe
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Yup – A couple of powerful head cleans should fix it
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Cheers Phil, fingers crossed
Just checked the other carts and 2 of them are really low so i’m just going to replace them the now rather than wait for this to happen again
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Sorted now
Cheers 😀
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John
Dont want to sound daft here, but do you check the levels using the rip/printer menu? …. or is there a mystic other way?
Had the same problem a while back where I had taken a cart out and replaced it.
cheers
adrian
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quote Adrian Yeo:John
Dont want to sound daft here, but do you check the levels using the rip/printer menu? …. or is there a mystic other way?
Had the same problem a while back where I had taken a cart out and replaced it.
cheers
adrian
Those levels always show as full 🙁 and the one in the printer menu only shows rough measures but show full again if you take cart out and put it back in 😮
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Now the black is printing really strong
And I mean strong, after a meter of print the black is still soaking wet and doesn’t seem to dry on it’s own
All was fine before I had to change the ink so not sure why it’s like this now
Maybe another few cleans? I don’t want to waste ink if I don’t need it
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The only suggestions I can come up with John are
1/ Is the new ink cartridge the same formulation as the one that ran out?
2/ Did you inadvertently switch off the heaters on the control panel when you were performing cleans to pull the ink through?
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Same ink and all I did to pull the ink through was to do a full head clean
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sounds like u got some kind of overridden printer
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