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  1. Please help!! Banding and over spray issues Roland SG

    I have a Roland SG300 The Magenta began banding one day after a series of prints heavy on solid red coloring. I changed out the printer head, Brand new damper, brand new Caps. Checked all the lines for kinks or air gaps ect... Everything seems fine, though I did notice that the diaphragm on...
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    Question SP300V - Service Mode Test Print - What Does It Mean?

    I'm getting strange results from the service mode test print (see attached). Cyan seems fine in the standard test print, but when printed in service mode it has a wavy column with light coverage in the middle of each pass. Has anyone ever seen something like this? Cyan is showing signs of ink...
    • DanK
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    • Forum: Roland
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    Question SP300(V) Printing Issues - Cyan Ink Starvation / Black Overspray

    My SP300 started acting up lately. While printing 4" CMYK test squares, I noticed that the cyan square had light coverage and minor overspray and the black square had overspray. I shook each ink cartridge and discovered that the cyan was empty. After replacing the cyan ink cartridge (OEM inks...
    • DanK
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    • Forum: Roland

  4. Need Help Mutoh 1614 Ink Starvation

    Hello Everyone, I have a Mutoh 1614, I was printing on arlon 13oz banner, use flexi rip, optimized my profile and the customer is happy. However I noticed green seems to fade or shift color from one end to the other. Can anyone help me identify if this is a ink starv, dirty encoder strip, or...

  5. JV33 Banding when printing Red... Ink Starvation Problem??? Dampers??? What?

    Hi, We have just replace the head on our Mimaki JV33, all done no problem, printing crystal clear. We primarily print safety signs, so lots of block colours, Red, Blue, Black and Yellow etc. printed fine for the day, following day when printing Red signs, black bands start printing in the...

  6. Roland, Ink Starvation or What?

    I have had problems for 2 years with the black output on my Roland SC545-EX. Here's the scenario: I start printing a banner with full bleed black, it starts fine but after a couple of feet a slight over spray starts, it eventually gets worse, then the print starts to go bad, I can see that not...

  7. Eco-Sol Printing: Solid Colours - Tips/Advice

    Ok... so I'm doing a really long run of solid darks... and I'm officially going insane. I'm getting there, and have found a couple of things which have helped. Just wondering if there are any other tips out there to help people down the track. I've searched and read quite a bit, but was...
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