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Need Help Cap Station Cleaning issue help please

sidcon

New Member
Hello all, Still having an issue with this. Printer is a VS300, new head, captop, drain lines, and pump. Just swapped for another new captop and lines and still same. Now that I remember when I bought this it had the same issue even before I put all the new parts in and explains why the whole cap station hinged mechanism had about 1/4" of caked on ink all over it that I tore apart and cleaned. Its leaking out of the left side of the cap and eventually builds up under the mechanism. What would cause this? Thank you for any help, we need to finally get this working, I'm hoping this might be the issue for the colors being off.

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rjssigns

Active Member
Not sure if this will help but I always squirt cleaning solution on the captop before parking the head. Did it with my SP540V, doing it with my 1624x.
 

sidcon

New Member
Thank you rjs for the advise we will start doing that.

I'm wondering, Is it possible this could be caused by the cap station unit being out of alignment to the head? also how much gap from the seal of the cap top to the head should there be when off the station. Thank you everyone for and advise.
 

Joe House

New Member
You probably just need to perform a flushing adjustment. This lines up the print head where the cap top is for flushing.
 
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