Firstly Hello and festive greetings from the UK, sorry my first post is a frantic question
A little background, I recently bought a second hand CJV30-60 I use a CJV30-130 on a daily basis for my Part time Employer but took a chance on the smaller machine for my self as I thought I knew the machines well and the smaller machine was ideal for my own printing needs
It's running a standard cartridge based CMYK print format and when I bought the machine the test print was fine except for a broken second Black print, the first being perfect
I went through a series for head washes and 99 min soaks and this did not seem to improve the test print, I then decided to replace the damper on the broken print, I assumed it could only be this as the other colours were all fine
This is the first damper I replaced and after reading up and watching everything I could find I decided it should be quite straight forward
I carefully removed the metal clamps from the top and gently removed the questionable damper and replaced it with a new one, then re-fitted it to the manifold above the head
The damper didn't appear to fill with ink very well, even after several ink fills so I decided to try and pull ink through the damper, mainly because I didn't have a suitable tube to pull it through from below the capping station
I was getting a suction from the syringe but it was drawing no ink, I had opened the ink cartridge through the service menu
I replaced the damper and decided to run some prints through it and see if that improved things, I did a test print to check only to find I had totally lost the Black from both heads!
I ran the few Black only prints but was only getting a dark blue generated from the other colours I guess, still nothing from the Black heads in the test print!
In disgust I went home and drank beer!
This morning I returned with a suitable tube to draw ink from the bottom of the capping station, clamped off one tube to the pump and drew from the other, I had opened the valves on both the Black cartriges and again had suction from the syringe but still no ink!
I
then unclipped the feed hose from the top of the damper and tried to draw ink from there, again nothing!
I don't want the Black section of the head to dry out if it's not getting ink so I have replaced the two dampers with dampers full of cleaning fluid in the hope it keeps the head free while I resolve the Black feed issue
I can only guess there is now Air in the Black ink feed pipe but I can't understand why I can't draw ink through the tube even above the dampers?
Any ideas would be appreciated, also is leaving dampers filled with cleaning fluid attached to the head a good idea while I try and resolve the feed issue?
A little background, I recently bought a second hand CJV30-60 I use a CJV30-130 on a daily basis for my Part time Employer but took a chance on the smaller machine for my self as I thought I knew the machines well and the smaller machine was ideal for my own printing needs
It's running a standard cartridge based CMYK print format and when I bought the machine the test print was fine except for a broken second Black print, the first being perfect
I went through a series for head washes and 99 min soaks and this did not seem to improve the test print, I then decided to replace the damper on the broken print, I assumed it could only be this as the other colours were all fine
This is the first damper I replaced and after reading up and watching everything I could find I decided it should be quite straight forward
I carefully removed the metal clamps from the top and gently removed the questionable damper and replaced it with a new one, then re-fitted it to the manifold above the head
The damper didn't appear to fill with ink very well, even after several ink fills so I decided to try and pull ink through the damper, mainly because I didn't have a suitable tube to pull it through from below the capping station
I was getting a suction from the syringe but it was drawing no ink, I had opened the ink cartridge through the service menu
I replaced the damper and decided to run some prints through it and see if that improved things, I did a test print to check only to find I had totally lost the Black from both heads!
I ran the few Black only prints but was only getting a dark blue generated from the other colours I guess, still nothing from the Black heads in the test print!
In disgust I went home and drank beer!
This morning I returned with a suitable tube to draw ink from the bottom of the capping station, clamped off one tube to the pump and drew from the other, I had opened the valves on both the Black cartriges and again had suction from the syringe but still no ink!
I
then unclipped the feed hose from the top of the damper and tried to draw ink from there, again nothing!
I don't want the Black section of the head to dry out if it's not getting ink so I have replaced the two dampers with dampers full of cleaning fluid in the hope it keeps the head free while I resolve the Black feed issue
I can only guess there is now Air in the Black ink feed pipe but I can't understand why I can't draw ink through the tube even above the dampers?
Any ideas would be appreciated, also is leaving dampers filled with cleaning fluid attached to the head a good idea while I try and resolve the feed issue?
