Is there a down side to head soaking? I have not used my printer much lately and so I have lots of deflections. I have pinched off the captop lines and put Roland cleaner in the caps and then docked the heads and turned the printer off. I have been letting it soak for a day, then I clean it, and print a few tests and then let it soak again for another day. Is there anything that I can damage or have problems with doing this? It is a VP540i.
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Can Head Soaks Create Problems? Is There A Downside?
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Notarealsignguy
Arial - it's almost helvetica
Doubt it but what other choice do you have?
I got cross contamination doing it once but thats easy enough to fix.
I got cross contamination doing it once but thats easy enough to fix.
The VP has 4 heads so each head has 2 channels of the same colour. Cross contamination is not an issue... I had that on my SP540V though.
Bradley Signs
Bradley Signs
My wife told me to go soak my head. Didn't solve a thing... I'm still a Sign Maker.
Jim Hancock
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You should be fine letting it soak as long as needed. Back in 2004, we had several extended power outages during back to back hurricanes here in south Florida. As a precaution, I advised the soak procedure for a customer who was concerned, as she used MegaInk, which was very quick to dry. We set it up before losing power. No power for 3 weeks. Once power was back, 2 cleanings and she was good to go and there was no degradation to the cap tops.