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Experts! My VP-540 has sat idle for a number of months, it was left turned on so it would do the automatic clean cycles. I've cleaned up the cap tops, soaked the heads overnight, done a manual clean, a couple of medium cleans, and a powerful clean to have a very faint yellow (almost white) on...

I have a VP-540 that has 2 broken IC Cartridge Sensors inside Slot 3 and Slot 4 of the Ink Cartridge Slots. I attached a picture of the sensors that I need to replace. There is no manual on how to change them out and just need some pointers on what to take off first so I can get the sensors...

Hey all, Is there a way to add a notification or noise to the printer when its done printing? Thanks

Printer was printing black fine, but the other colors weren't printing unless I changed the black cables to them. I replaced the print carriage board (part W701588210) and now the led on the board blinks and the other end of the printer clicks when trying to turn the printer on. Does anyone...

Hey guys! I’ve been creeping on this page for so long and I finally pulled the trigger on my first UV printer! I’ve been in the signage/wrapping for over 10 years. I’ve worked with Roland Eco Solvent, HP Latex and a Graphtec FC8000-130 that I actually purchased from a great guy in PA off this...

So, yesterday I changed out a liner encoder strip on our Roland SP-540v (firmware 6.3) and, although it prints the image still "skews". I figured I'd need to do the "Linear Encoder Setup" as per the Service manual. I attempted AS I HAVE DONE IN THE PAST to enter service mode... the usual, start...

Hi there. My old Mutoh is getting a bit long in the tooth. Thinking about an upgrade. My issue is I don't use it a lot. (but of course when I do I need it to perform well). I realise that solvent printers need to be used. (this could be one of the reason I have quite a few issues with my...

Hey guys, What am i missing here? Ill go ahead and upload an image, but I am running into a step i must be missing. Im newer to illustrator, i originally designed and learned from Gerber Omega so im having to go the hard route unlearning that and relearning illustrator! you will see a picture...

Hey guys I bought a sc-500 yesterdays and spares or repairs for a very good price and thought just give it a shot maybe fix it if not break it down in parts. The seller also have me pretty much another whole parts for sc-500 to go along with it At first when turned on and carriage was coming...

Cheers guys, i need to swicht back from Eco Sol Max 3 (ESL5) to Eco Sol Max 2 (ESL4). Why? I am seller of MegaInk by Digital Ink Inks and buy broken printers and sell them again after refubish. Digital Inks can´t offer the ESL5 to me because of reasons i can´t tell here:) the machine was...

Reduced to $5950 Mimaki CJV300-160 High speed print & cut machine. Low hour machine! One print head is missing some nozzles, but otherwise a good working machine. This machine has (2) print heads, and one print head is perfect. It has a feature to use other nozzles to print the missing ones...

Hi can anyone help when I print some of the darker colours they are not not merging properly see photos any ideas would be greatly appreciated Room temperature is good Printer heater 38 Dryer 48 Printed on high quality setting 1040 dpi And tried on 720 x 720 dpi Still not rite I also had...

Hi can anyone help when I print some of the darker colours they are not not merging properly see photos any ideas would be greatly appreciated Room temperature is good Printer heater 38 Dryer 48 Printed on high quality setting 1040 dpi And tried on 720 x 720 dpi Still not rite I also had...

A few questions about moving on from an older printer. Full Rant below: 1- what is the expected life span of a Roland printer/cutter, when used heavily, but taken care of? 2- Is there a market for old printers? In some ways they seem like vehicles. In a lot of ways the old ones were superior...

Yesterday it was fine, then this morning when I began to print I saw a lot of ink being dripped and trailed over the vinyl. I think it is a damper issue, not 100% sure though, if its a damper issue is that something I change out or should I schedule a tech? Thanks

what color is best for my Roland sp540v? Eco sol max, Eco sol max2 or Eco sol max3?

So one of my rolands is giving me trouble. Both are getting a bit long in the tooth so I figure I probably have a bad head...but I'll take any advice if someone has a solution. I've already cleaned the head, checked the ribbon cables, looks like the head is attached to everything properly...I've...

I'm the one man print dept. at a small but very busy sign/wrap/print shop. We have two of the newer True-Vis printers, and enough jobs to keep them both going all day, not to mention a crazy amount of time spent trouble shooting issues with these tricky machines. It doesn't leave a lot of room...

We've been having this issue on our Roland VG-540 for some time, and also with our new VG-2 pretty much right out the box. These big thick horizantal bands that will appear sometimes just once on a print, sometimes a few times, but always at a random spot. This issue comes and goes...

Our pretty new Roland VG-2 just started printing these little "halo's" along the outside edges of the prints. The feed calibration and media gap adjustment (bi-directional) are all calibrated. Nozzle tests are good. The user manual doesn't suggest much beyond those two adjustments. Any insights...