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l25500

  1. Need Help HP alignment sheet (l25500)

    Hello, I am new too printing and got an HP l25500 for $100 since it is discontinued I had a problem with a few of the print heads being dead (i have new printheads). I was wondering if there is a way to interpret the printhead alignment sheet for example no bottom cyan means printhead 2 or no...
  2. Will A 792 Printhead Cleaner work in place of a 789?

    I am nearing the end of my printhead cleaner and don't want to be out of luck. Since the 789 is discontinued, can I use a 792 printhead cleaner? Has anyone tried this method?
  3. Need Help Printhead Clogging HP L25500

    Help! I finally managed to get my printer up and running (it use to have severe horizontal banding), but I purchased a new printhead... Issue fixed! The issue I am now having is it won't stay "unclogged". Every morning, I wake the machine up, run a print head cleaning, and it's clogged again...
  4. Need Help Horizontal Issues HP l25500

    I'm a newbie to the printing world. I purchased an HP l25500 to give us a feel as to if we should commit to having a wide format printer. The machine works fine but for some reason I'm getting horizontal banding on my prints. I did a few print head cleanings, and it has helped but I think I...
  5. News Hp latex l26500 life extension

    As many of you will know the latex l26500 is end of life according to HP. Many users and owners NOTv happy about this as these machines are still capable of producing great work and have a lot of life in them. HP said last year that they would stop supporting them and manufacturing print heads...
  6. Need Help HP L25500 failure

    Hello, my l25500 was working great and after moving I am having issues. After cleaning and reinstalling it the printer booted up fine. The ink would pump and it would feed material but the heater was not turning on and when going to test print I would get a 14:17 error about AC voltage. I...
  7. Need Help L25500 Trouble After Belt Replacement

    So, I was printing along nicely and my belt shredded. It was a fairly quick and painless replacement, but now I error out. It initializes and then the head slowly moves across, no banging and comes back to the capping station. Then it zips out and throws an 86:01. When I installed the belt I put...
  8. L 260, L26500 wide rectangles are bent ?

    Today I needed to make 4 black rectangles, 48" wide x 5-1/2" deep. They had a bit of yellow text on them. I printed them OK, on self-adhesive oracal vinyl, allowing 1/4" bleed all round, thank goodness! When I went to trim them, despite the 48" being left to right on 54" vinyl, the edges had...
  9. HP designjet L25000 Encoder Strip install

    Hey everyone I need some help its been a long and stressful day of putting a new carriage belt in the L25000 I'm back to assembling and I'm stuck! How do I reinstall the encoder strip? Can not to seem to figure out how the bracket snaps in. Spent too much time trying to figure it out on my own...
  10. Question L25500 Error 86:01 in the initialization process of the carriage

    I had the problem, that my L25500 didn't accept the printhead 3! I thought, updating the firmware to the newest release will help! After I did that, a failure 86:01 showed up in the initialization routine for the carriage. The carriage moves shortly to right and the starting process stops. I...
  11. Need Help L25500 Jamming

    Hey Guys. So I got my l25500 early last year and ive done alot of printing with it and its been pretty good as far as maintenance goes, BUT ever since i got the printer ive realized that it jams EXTREMELY easy. is this normal for these printers or is there something wrong with the printer...
  12. L25500 Faulty Ink Cartridge

    Hey guys, Do any of you guys know of any way to bypass the printing telling me "Replace Faulty Ink Cartridge"? First of all, I live in Central America and there is no HP support here so shipping something ASAP is out of the question. The printer has been printing great, i just ran out of ink...
  13. HP L25500 Random Out Of Alignment

    Hey all, I'm having a problem that I just can't seem to figure out. It randomly goes out of alignment and then prints fine. I have cleaned and oiled the carriage rails, cleaned the encoder strip, checked the belt and the gear drive for debris, ran a vacuum check, realigned the print heads and a...
  14. HP L25500 latex print fading

    I've recently picked up a HP L25500 60" latex printer, and I'm having issues with the second print looks like it runs out of cyan. If I let the printer sit (off) overnight, the next day, it goes back to normal for the first print (or I should say, for the first few feet, I haven't printed much...
  15. Need Help l25500 Substrate Jam on startup

    Hey guys, anyone have any idea why i would get this error on startup? I just printed a job yesterday and i came back today and woke the printer up from sleep and it gave me that error. now on every startup, after it finishes initializing then it says substrate jam
  16. Substrate Jam Clean Carriage Reflector HP L25500 Question

    Hey everyone. For the life of me is their anyone who can help with providing some solution, reason or explanation to why i keep getting substrate jams. I got the maintenance error to clean carriage rail. lint free cloth correct type of alcohol. cleaned the rail. oil wise i read on a forum...
  17. Printing dark blue L25500

    Hey everybody, is anyone else having a hard time achieving nice dark blue with latex printer? I noticed lately that whenever ive been trying to send a nice dark blue, it shows up more like a blue purple. I swapped out both cyan printheads cause i had extras on hard and also changed one magenta...
  18. Need Help l25500 Printing Blurry on some passes

    Anyone have any idea why my L25500 would be printing like this? Its been working fine so far, though it has taken me a while to figure out all the right temperatures for every different vinyl, this was printing on GF203 vinyl at 16 pass with 220 drying temp, 235 curing temp, and 35 for vac. I...
  19. Need Help L25500 Firmware issue and Carriage issue

    Currently firmware version 5.0.0.8 is on my L25500. The latest version for download is GG-CAL_07_00_01.5 ..but that won't load on the machine. There was a version 6.0.1.6 that is no longer available for download. (anyone have that by chance?) So, now I need to figure out how to get that...
  20. Automark 230 vinyl with HP Latex Printer

    Hi, im wondering if its possible to print on GF CONCEPT 230 AUTOMARK vinyl with a latex printer. On the automark website is says "This film is designed to accept a variety of solvent, latex and UV curable inks common to wide format digital printing systems" but on Fellers website is only says...
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