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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...

I have a SP-540 with Versaworks on my main computer, but I am moving that system to a different room. I have an iPad Pro that I want to attach directly to the printer to run versaworks with it so that I am not running back and forth. I have VW on my windows machine, but I need the mac version...

Nevermind......The encoder strip wasnt properly seated behind the carriage lol. I did the env match and its printing the first run now. Looks good so far. Thanks!!

I had to restart it after it threw 0110 and it doesnt get passed the initial startup. The carriage moves left about an inch and then goes back and then its like it times out or something and throws 0110 again. Is there something that I could have knocked loose?

well...i cleaned the encoder strip and it was def dirty, and it made about 3 passes and threw 0110.

Im not sure what this would be called, but it started all of a sudden and seems to come and go. Nozzle check seems fine. Any idea what would cause this? Its like its ghosting or something. But if you notice the last print of the rectangle image...it is skewed. The cut lines are also way off...