Msrae
Rae
I have a Roland SC-540 and I am experiencing an odd issue with my black ink print. I recently replaced all of my capping stations and things were going well until I went to print this last banner. The blacks were printing more gray so I ran a test print. The black was almost nonexistent for half of the test print. I did a manual clean without much improvment. I then did a manual pull of some ink through the capping station with the head parked. I ran a test print. Better, but still not great so I did a powerfull head clean then ran a test print again. This time it showed WORSE than the previous test print. Again I did a medium head clean and it printed a little better again, only missing in spots. It still wasn't great. Without doing anything else I ran another test print and, once again it came out worse. So it is going from better to worse to better. I can't figure out what would cause this to happen. Why would it keep changing print? I even just did two test prints in a row and they both turned out a little different. If it were just a clogged head I would assume it would clear and stay clear (I had a badly clogged head in my cyan recently and I was able to fix it with the soaking, pulling ink through the head etc).
I did a search but I did not find anything readily available on how to actually know when it is actually time to replace a print head or if I should keep trying to fix it.
Any insight/help would be greatly appreciated.
TY
I did a search but I did not find anything readily available on how to actually know when it is actually time to replace a print head or if I should keep trying to fix it.
Any insight/help would be greatly appreciated.
TY