Recent content by Color Envy

I got it off of ebay. It had the roland logo on the product image but the one that I got doesnt, so i guess I shouldve done more research on it. At this point im just overly frustrated and was just trying to get it ordered asap to hopefully get this thing back going again. I just looked up the...

Ugh...no go. Still zero ink being sprayed.

well, I did the process of elimination and for some reason....right right side ribbon of the left head was the problem. I swapped ends of the cable between the head and the board, and it powered up. Going to do a cleaning and then a test print and hope for the best. Also, could you tell me where...

So i had to wait forever for the carriage board to show up. I also ordered 4 new printhead cables. Installed the board and cables, and have zero power. If I remove the printhead cables from the board, it powers back up. This is why people have random head sized holes in their walls lol.

I have ordered all 4 head cables and a new carriage board, but the board wont be here for a week or so. Since the fuses check out, and none of the 4 channels are firing, does that eliminate a bad transistor? the Magenta/yellow head was never unhooked at all...not even the cables or dampers and...

The irony of that being my next question lol. Thanks guys, ill test those and check the carriage board. Just curious....if even 1 of the 8 transistors are bad, would that alone cause the non firing of both heads?

Stopped and grabbed a few pics of the boards so you can see the leds. Hopefully this shows you what you are asking.

I am currently not at the shop but I will check the LEDs on the boards and get back to you. Im not sure where those boards are though. I just exposed the main board to check the fuses. I didnt know about the leds on the boards....that actually makes me happy lol. Gives me another step to isolate...

I checked the f2 and f3 fuses and they checked out ok. I did not wait 15 mins, i just unplugged it and held the power button to discharge it. Is there a way to test the transistors? The printer goes through all of the motions of printing and the carriage moves etc, just no firing. (not sure if...

I was getting less than great prints on black and i found a cracked damper nozzle on the head manifold. I removed the head and replaced the manifold with a new one and reinstalled the head. I never touched the other head because it was printing fine. After replacing the head and powering up the...

That moment when you feel like an idiot for not thinking of that..........lol Thank you sir!

Im not needing the actual length of the material. I am just needing the actual print area. Sorry if I didnt word that correctly. The material is long enough, I just dont know how much of that the printer will actually use. I know at the end of a roll, it will stop with a few inches of material...

I have a banner to print today, and I didnt receive my new roll of material on time...yay lol. I have to print a 4x8 and I have one piece of 8 ft banner left. I know the machine measures width, but is there a way to get it to measure length for a sheet? If not, how much media will it not use...

The SP-540 is a network printer. It doesnt use usb. It can be accessed wirelessly via the network with no problem.

Thanks for all of the replies. I wasnt looking to replace my windows box or even choose a mac over a windows box. I already have an iPad Pro (2021) and I was just looking to use it to do nothing but run the printer. In my head, it wouldve basically added a touch screen to the printer that could...