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Moving Printer Advice…
We need to move our Versacamm VP540 over Xmas to a new location.
Do we leave the ink cartridges in the machine?After reading some previous posts I understand we have to do the following?
01. Remove waste bottle and replace with stopper
02. Lock the print head with blue bracket
03. Lift and transport the printer in the same horizontal position it sits in whilst printing.Thanks
Nathan -
12 Replies
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I would just give roland’s a call,
they will give you the advice you need.Peter
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Leave cartridges in the machine or you end up having to suck suck suck ink thru which will waste a lot of money
please dont leave powered off for over 6 hours… get it moved and back on
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quote Dave Rowland:Leave cartridges in the machine or you end up having to suck suck suck ink thru which will waste a lot of money
please dont leave powered off for over 6 hours… get it moved and back on
My mimaki was turned of for almost two weeks whilst being repaired.
(long story) but just to show that a few hours or even days does not do any harm,
Peter -
well you was lucky… i lost 1 head within 24 hours and it’s happened again not long ago, i replace a head about once every 6-12 months and mainly due to an unreported issue. I wasn’t using the damn machine, but you start getting deflection or missing line on the original JV3 then it needs new head or a really really good cleaning method.
Leaving the JV3 printer off is MOST certainly not recommended!
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I favour installing empty ink cartridges. If the ink started to syphon then you wouldn’t waste a lot of ink.
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Thanks for the advice, I’ll give Roland a quick call to make sure I don’t overlook anything.
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I have to move mine tomorrow, and I have just read you should drain all the ink and wash the interior with all new cleaning cartridges of which I only have 1 🙁 .
Didn’t realise this was the case, has anyone moved it by just by removing the cartridges and replacing with empty ones as Dave suggested?
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We moved ours and just took cartridges out and waste bottle off. And locked head too.
A couple of strong head cleans and all was fine.
Cheers
Gary
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We moved ours as above and no spilt ink or any other problems.
Regards
Russell.
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whats the point of flushing it?
imagine moving a patient out of hospital with a drip attached, thats what you are doing, putting empties or leaving inks in just stops the movement of ink, isn’t that the best thing to do?
Strong headcleans will work for some but not all, as people will just think that they will worry about it after xmas, big mistake! And the roland/mimaki pumps are the poorest design ever, so dont trust them!
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Thanks Gary and Russell, that’s the news I wanted to hear 😀
Dunno why they suggest the flushing Dave 😕
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Hi,
I moved my versacamm into the new unit last Friday…..and it got snowed on !I just locked the head and removed the ink bottle underneath.
2 Men and a van moved it without any problems at all.
Switched it on a few hours later and did a quick clean……good as new !
Nothing to worry about…….just don’t drop it !
All the best,
Cheryl 😀
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