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Excellent, thanks everyone! I'll have o-rings tomorrow so I'll go over all the tips here and post results.

Awesome, thanks Solventinkjet! I found a 50 pack of o-rings on Amazon with the right dimensions so I'll have those in 2 days (I went with the black Nitrile rubber ones as opposed to the clear silicone ones to try best to match original Roland). I'll also check all the lines and Y's below the...

Hi everyone! I have a common problem that I've dealt with many times and read a lot about on this forum but it's being extra difficult for me this time... cross contamination on my SP300v between the yellow and magenta. I changed dampers and caps a few weeks ago to address another issue, and...

Great, thanks damonCA21... I'll post my results once solved. Cheers!

Ok, awesome... thanks for the help everyone. I'm about to order a bunch of parts to try (o-rings, manifold, and probably a head to hold in inventory just in case). Quick question, and this may be silly. Is there a process to remove ink cartridges that are going to be re-installed? I searched...

Hey Jim, ok great... I will clean the manifold posts to ensure a good seal. Is it ok to remove the new dampers I installed to clean the posts and then re-install them? Or are they a one-time install that should be replaced once removed again? I did not pull the ink cartridges during the head...

Update and more help please – I changed all four dampers and both caps (since I was in there anyway). I don't have manifolds so I couldn't change those but I did look at them closely and didn't see any obvious cracks (image attached if I missed something or please direct where specifically to...

Amazing! Thank you both Zoogee World and Solventinkjet... I don't have manifolds but I'll change all dampers right away and give it a try. I love this forum!

Hi everyone! Quick question... without boring with details of the issue (which may come up later if this doesn't work), I think I need an overnight head soak on my Roland SP300v. I know to clamp off the drain line, fill the caps with Roland cleaning solution, and raise the caps against the heads...

I didn't see the Bi-Dir section in the non-service Menu until now! This may be a simple fix. I did a Bi-Dir test print and I assume I just adjust the 4 settings to match the bars that align based on this test print? It looks like a few of my values are quite off.

I did the head soak without coffee filter and it seemed to help clear up the cyan test print. I also changed to a new Cyan ink to be sure it wasn't an ink problem. I did get magenta going back into my yellow lines during soak, I assume because my yellow ink is much lower than my magenta but I...

Ok, I just did all the Service Mode test prints so we may have a bunch more information now. The standard test print shows the heavy and light areas of the Cyan more clearly. The Service Fill Test shows Cyan blur at the edge... all other colors seem ok (if you look close the black edge isn't...

Awesome, thanks for the help damonCA21, I'm using Roland VersaWorks with Standard print quality. I've tried the High Quality with slight improvement but still very grainy. Historically the Standard quality has given me good results. I'll look into the Service Mode test print as I've never tried...

Hi everyone, I'm having a problem with my Roland SP-300v as of late. It's printing grainy, especially on smaller photo type images. It's not an image resolution thing as I've been repeatedly printing the same art for years and only somewhat recently has the grainy print been an issue. Smaller...

Thanks for the responses guys! It's crazy, but the printer started working last night. I ran a few longer print-only jobs, and although it did Error 0010 one time, after these jobs I ran a print-and-cut, and it worked! I've since run a number of jobs and it's still going with no Error after a...

My SP300v has recently started giving me a SCAN MOTOR ERROR CODE 0010. It started out randomly every few jobs, but now is doing it constantly. Either immediately at startup... but if I can get past startup it often allows me to print, but gives the error as soon as it gets to the 4th crop mark...

Success!!! Thanks so much again Solventinkjet and John! I swapped in a new cyan cartridge, drew 20ml with syringe through cap (damper didn't go as cyan as I thought it would, but way lighter than before), ran a clean cycle, test print, then printed my squares. You can see in the picture how...

I changed both caps yesterday to be safe. I just got back and could only find a 10ml syringe, so I used it three times to pull a total of 30ml through the black/cyan cap. If anything, the damper got more black after this process. If the cyan is supposed to be as bright as the magenta in my...

And there's the magic number I think I needed!! Thanks Solventinkjet. I just watched a video on this as well and the dude drew a ton of ink through, and your 20ml number really helps! I only have these dinky 3ml syringes so I'm probably not nearly passing enough ink through. I'm going out now to...

Ok, great, thanks guys! I would prefer to not play with the dampers if possible (they scare me a bit), so am I ok to continue drawing ink from the cap rather than the damper? I understand that this will take both black and cyan but at this point, I'm not worried too much about wasting ink so if...