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I have found one thing with working on printers is you tend to make mistakes ( hopefully not too expensive ) and that is how you learn, and also if you are working on a faulty printer then you know which things to check.
Blowing the fuses is very common, the amount of posts on here from people...
OK, I think the two main board fuses also control the head, so if they are both ok then it more likely to be the cables are the problem ( and if it was working ok before you took them off ).
As solventinkjet says, check the cables to see if you have 3 the same and one that has a different end on it
If the printer wasn't completely discharged when you took the cables off or plugged them in it is very easy to blow the main board head fuses. When this happens the printer will seem to operate as normal, but no ink will be fired from the head.
That would be my first thing to check. I'm not sure...
I'm not sure, but there should be a page ( probably the next one after the diagram ) that has the part numbers and CN numbers for each of the cables shown
I'm not sure. I think maybe the triangle is a general warning, then the round one a specific ink one if you havent expanded the ink level menu? Unless it is some sort of service reminder, but I havent noticed it before
Well it can be done either way, either a copy of the original to keep the retro look, or to recreate as a more modern version. Same logo but with less wobblyness ! I would actually be tempted to keep it more original given the age of the club
Hopefully it will be ok now. Really once it is all working and being used regularly to keep the ink flowing, then it shouldn't need doing again. One of the printers I work on is 10 years old now, and has never needed any work on the ink lines ( the dampers get changed at the 3 month service we do )
I would guess at air still leaking somewhere. The test print is showing the one yellow channel working fine, but not the one that shares the magenta damper.
It could be something like a tiny hole in the ink line, or the line not seating properly where it connects to the manifold. Could also be a...
Ah yes I use Corel too, it does seem to be an occasional problem. Sometimes if cutting a circle close to the edge it will miss the very edge of the cut. It only does it every now and again so I just learned to live with it
Sometimes it can just do this randomly on certain artwork, but not others. It just seems to miss the start position if it is very close to the edge.
An easy fix is normally just to put something on the artwork like a small black circle next to the first decal so the first cut is slightly further...
The ink levels on roland printers are only a rough estimate. They just work on how long the printer is on doing something, and assume how much ink is being used. It will tell you when the ink is low though, so don't worry about what it shows before then.
I think metallic is worse than white, although I have never used that on our printers. Roland printers 'can' print using specialist inks, but they don't seem very happy using them
One thing I forgot to mention ! Roland printers hate being stood not being used. It is best to use them every day to keep the ink flowing. If you don't have any print jobs to do that day , make up some artwork of 1 inch square blocks of C, M, Y and K running across the width of the page, and...
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