Search results

But the machine was printing right colour-wise, so why swop and mix the colours in the head? The manual might be showing a test pattern for a different firmware version also. This wouldn’t cause a sudden printhead behavior change either. Test pattern makes perfect sense as it is anyway. Printer...

Yeah, dampers is a bit of a stretch. But if they’re clogged and creating back pressure then the caps and pumps might not be able to clean properly, which could give you the current results. Maybe replace a matching pair of colours from the same ink line, run a long soak, couple of cleans and...

Upload your working file and pdf export here for proper fault finding.

Sent with wetransfer

I feel your pain about the money! But a head replaced in November isn’t new-new. If it’s an original Roland head then they should be onboard with testing another head that’s out of the box new. If it’s aftermarket head, ie: not through Roland then ouch, you might need to cough up. The head...

Will send manual in about 2-3 hours when I get to the office.

Aha. Yeah, supply-chains are a mess worldwide

I’ll bet good money on the heads being the issue. Possibly bad inks - I’ve had similar looking results years ago on a latex and it was bad aftermarket inks. But your problem really, really looks head related. If possible, swop that head out and install new dampers (just incase), and I’m sure the...

If the 3164HT works fine and the customer loves it, what’s the issue then?

swirls - yeah, I’m not a 100% either about the encoder life counter on this model either. You probably have more insight by the sounds of it.

I’m guessing marine-ply.

This sounds like a dirty linear encoder or the the reader. I second Terry01’s comment about cleaning it properly, but then go through all the relevant steps for having replace encoders parts and also reset the counters for those parts for good measure and usage tracking.

Yeah, butt-join that sucker. The extra lam you added just thickened to top coat making it even likelier to get caught. Also, most vinyls don’t stick on top of the rough lam. The overlap is also very narrow. If you really want to add an overlap, make it a big one so it has enough grip area, and...

Pretty sure even in version 5 you couldn't select which q the chipcharts was sent too? No biggy though

Back in earlier versions this wasn’t an option. And given the age of the post it would certainly not have been one.

Not that I’m aware of. Closest is to run through he normal trace processes in AI, that’s essentially what the one-step features do in Versaworks and the like. But why do you want this? The one-step built in features produce sloppy results with no way of fine control.

You can flatten it out of Acrobat (not the plain Adobe Reader). This is usually included in the Adobe Suite. There is limited output control and doesn't anti-alias the files. Better option is Photoshop. Pull the file into Photoshop and when the general dialogue pops up save the file to 100dpi at...

Certainly not the encoder. I'm willing to put money on the fact that this is the file or software related. Hardware (mostly) gives a consistent issue, it would also appear over the entire width, and with more regularity. Inspect the file closer, change the format, if it's a PDF - flatten it...

You're correct, head 2 for the Cyan is missing the light colours, and generally speaking there is very little chance of getting it back. Where you've remarked about it should be yellow = the pattern is actually correct. HP does this thing where it places the yellow on top of the light magenta...

Nope, just nope. At best they can get somebody else to manufacture their crappy frame and you can supply the print. But I would even go that far.