Grainy Print on SP-300V

[anwarshah]

Can anyone help with a problem of grainy print on Roland SP-300V.
I am using orajet 3551 for a long time with the color profile from Oracal also.
Perfect media no problems.
Recently I moved the machine from PA to TX and did go thru the procedure
outlined in Rolands SP-300V manual when transporting, draining the ink and
replenishing the ink back again.

Thanks a bunch.

 

[greysquirrel]

a pic could help. How old is the material? "white dots" usually mean not enough heat for pores to open...run the test file from versaworks, how does that look?

 

[petepaz]

yeah i would check the heat
+1 to that

 

[Solventinkjet]

Moving to a new climate will change the way your printer prints. Like stated above, up the heat and make sure your material didn't get a bunch of dust on in during the move. Other than that, you may just need to try some new profiles due to the environment change. I use the Orajet 3641 profile a lot up here in dry, thin air Denver. I used the same profile on the same machine in Seattle and it laid way too much ink down and pooled up on the vinyl like yours is. The humidity change made it harder for the ink to dry fast enough.

 

[anwarshah]

a pic could help. How old is the material? "white dots" usually mean not enough heat for pores to open...run the test file from versaworks, how does that look?

Here is the link to the pictures...
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zu29doolzoov99x/AABSxYJSvWzhQPozj0JWsX5Ea?dl=0

 

[anwarshah]

yeah i would check the heat
+1 to that

currently the heat for the Print is 37 and for the Dryer is 40.
Change both, if so by how much.

I forgot to mention, the material is around 2 months or less old.
If you want to see the test print pics...
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zu29doolzoov99x/AABSxYJSvWzhQPozj0JWsX5Ea?dl=0

 

[anwarshah]

Moving to a new climate will change the way your printer prints. Like stated above, up the heat and make sure your material didn't get a bunch of dust on in during the move. Other than that, you may just need to try some new profiles due to the environment change. I use the Orajet 3641 profile a lot up here in dry, thin air Denver. I used the same profile on the same machine in Seattle and it laid way too much ink down and pooled up on the vinyl like yours is. The humidity change made it harder for the ink to dry fast enough.

Any suggestions what profile to use in Houston?