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You remove the dampers from the head ( not from the ink lines ) and block them off. Like I say, its a bodge, but it can work. Obviously you can't just leave them open as they will drip ink everywhere !

There sort of is. You will need to disconnect the dampers from the bad head so no ink will fire from them. Then when you print, print in high quality and set it in versaworks to overprint 2 times. This isn't ideal but sometimes can give a decent printed result depending on what work you are...

Have sent you a DM :) They are all things you can change yourself if you are reasonably practical, and don't need any special tools so no need to call in techs normally :)

Startup and cleaning noises can be a few things, but normally is the scan motor starting to have problems

I sell spare parts for the SP300V, and I would say the most popular parts other than service parts that need replacing are the scan and feed motors, pump, heater control board, main power supply, cut carriage board, print carriage board, main print carriage board to main board long cables...

They should be fine, there isn't really much can go wrong with them!

They are probably a lot cheaper to get a bag of generic ones from ebay

https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/rivets/2559992?cm_mmc=UK-PLA-DS3A-_-google-_-CSS_UK_EN_PMAX_Catch+All-_--_-2559992&matchtype=&&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw17qvBhBrEiwA1rU9w3-4x_9YxwYNU8cRbHE3pGJSt3u8fvjDNAyTIw2Q5YxBNvcSm2slnhoCN-oQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds not sure what size the 300V uses off the top...

If you search google for nylon snap rivet you should find some :)

They are plastic rivets

Great, glad you are back up and running !

I would agree, not to mention a lot of less developed countries have very bad mains electrical supply and buildings may not have the best wiring either! It always amazes me how many people plug expensive equipment into bad electrical supplies

Basically yes. If you get a micro thin break in a trace on a board sometimes the heat can make it connect again, but then when the board cools it opens up again. The problem is they are generally impossible to find them to make a proper repair. However! heating the board can cause more problems...

Ah shame, if you were closer to me I may have been interested

Whereabouts are you based?

Definitely tile and make to fit the natural breaks. Trying to fit a 50' long stripe in one piece would be next to impossible without messing it up a lot - particularly if they are fitting them themselves

Yes that is correct. Its not a particularly hard job to fit it yourself, you just need to thread it through where the old cable went. When I do them I normally tape the new cable to the end of the old one and pull it through

Ah sorry no, I have the VP300 and VP540 and SP540i . I sold the last VPi one a few weeks ago

Yep. Sometimes finding a fault on a board can be easy if its a main component has failed, then you get the ones where it is a trace or a via or something hidden under a chip. Baking a board only really works for reflowing bad solder connections, it rarely helps with bad traces. Personally I...

And worse case I do have used tested main boards in stock :)