Re: 6 color v 8 color variable droplet
Re: 6 color v 8 color variable droplet
- Subject: Re: 6 color v 8 color variable droplet
- From: Ernst Dinkla <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 22:44:34 +0200
email@hidden wrote:
Roland DGA US threw up their hands and cut off all communications when
our Roland FJ400 stopped working.
Their law department sent us a letter that said they would take us to
court if we even called tech support again.
Black and sometimes cyan ink stops flowing even after we replaced that
head at their suggestions and they wont honor the warranty. They are
definitely not supporting fine art printers here in the US and not even
supporting our printer that wont work at all.
When it comes to CM, the printers use proprietary profiles so users are
pretty much stuck buying Roland Media only and none of their media is
suitable for fine art. It is near impossible to do your own profiles.
Ulf Skogsbergh
As you are on your own now I would suggest to check the following:
The dampers (sieve for ink filtering + membrane for ink pressure
equalising) just before the head can be blocked by larger
particles. If they resemble the Epson parts you can exchange
them. Otherwise flush them backwards with demineralised water + a
syringe and put them back. Try to get extra dampers as they are
cheap and solve many problems.
If there still is no flow in one of the ink lines it can be the
needle that punctures the cart seal. On the Epsons it sometimes
happens that the needle gets blocked by seal particles. More
often with refilled carts where the seal is worn out. I've seen
a report that a needle was bended (how that happened is a big
question). Place an empty cart filled half with demineralised
water + some Windex in that inkline and use a syringe to press
the same fluid from the head connection through the inkline
towards that cart. Suck and push and at last push all towards
that cleaning cart. Replace the ink cart and pull the line full
again with a clean syringe. Connect the line again to the damper
on the head. A cleaning + printing a CcMmYK wastefield before
checking the nozzles.
Get a RIP that isn't proprietary, drives more than one printer at
the same time, allows third party profiles and has drivers for
all current printers in the license. There are RIPs like that for
the Roland too. Ergosoft PosterPrint, Wasatch SoftRip, etc.
Ernst
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