xc540 roland ink blockage ? c is blocked i think opinions?

[Kevin Flowers]

Shawn
have you had an head strike, if not i would be looking at your ink cartridge & capping station. To check put a syringe on to the pipe that comes off the capping station on that head if you have no suction you can reset the capping height via the service menu until you can get the cap replaced

Kev

[Shawn Bentley]

hi kev, no head strike that i know of, i changed the cyan ink as had a spare but still no luck, been going fine all day printing blues but this evening suddenly went like it? where would i buy a syringe that would fit? cheers lev

[Shawn Bentley]

heres image of underneath heads

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[Kevin Flowers]

Shawn
use to get mine off of Eb*y make sure it has a small nozzle. I would say from the pic that it would not hurt to have an engineer look at it your cap stations don’t look to be sealing very central in fact much more over & they probably wouldn’t seal at all. May not be causing this problem but could in future. Where in the country are you based

Kev

[Shawn Bentley]

Hi Kev I’m sawbridgeworth Hertfordshire border of Essex cheers

[Kevin Flowers]

Not a million miles away if you get stuck i’ll try & pop in, try a local chemist you may have to explain its use. If you can get in to the service menu you get adjust the capping station up a step which will sometimes help as a stop gap. Do you have a service manual, i can email you the Pro 2 one its just basically an earlier version of your machine will be some differences but minimal as i replaced parts on mine they all came with XC540 stamped on them.

Kev

[Shawn Bentley]

Hi Kev thanks, where are u based, I’be never done anything to machine so a bit worried about doing for first time in case I do something wrong, anyway u could pop by if u live near happy to pay you for your time?, I think it’s got to be blocked as was running fine all day and prior to this, thanks in advance you’ve been great help, I can pm my number to you, cheers

[Mark A Brown]

Hi Shawn,

Looks more like a damper has gone, rather than a capping station. If the capping station was at fault wouldn’t both sides of the head be having issues. There are 2 dampers per head. Try changing the damper.

From Mark

[Shawn Bentley]

hi mark had engineer out today (julian@evolution plus) really good engineer, he sorted problem got it going lovely then it went again lol we then realised damper must have gone, thanks you were spot on, cheers shawn

[Kevin Flowers]

Shawn
glad you are up & running obviously had a capping issue if it drew ink once caps where sorted. Thought you said dampers had been done but obviously not, probably someone else i was talking to.

Kev