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HP 700W LATEX REVIEWS AND HELP

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petit

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We are using a 700 W HP latex printer for 4 month now and this printer is so much different than the other HP latex that we need some help and reviews to see if we are using it the right way.
We do use this printer only for special jobs requiring white inks, for usuals jobs we use EPSON printers.

Firstly, is there a way to avoid the calibrations cleanings wich take 20% of the cleaning cartchdrive every 5 days. Even if we swich it off for 2 days, the printer automaticly laugh a 10 to 20 minutes cleaning action displaying on, the panel screen that it needs to calibrate the vinyl?

Secondly is there also a way to avoid the back and forth vinyl rolling for meters when it does that calibration cleaning action?

We used to print with the 360 LATEX wich was a good one but repuired a lot of energy to work..

Any informations on theses will be welcomed.

Thanks for watching.

Mike
 
balstestrat

balstestrat

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Do you always keep the white printheads in the printer? Consider removing when you don't have any jobs coming up. Especially for the weekend.
It will do more cleaning if you keep them in.

There is a maintenance cartridge coming that has a separate waste ink container that you can empty. It would probably be good for you.

2nd. No. Unload the substrate when you don't use it.

And do not switch off the machine. You are just asking for more problems and more cleaning...
 
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petit

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I do remove the white printheads.
looking foreward for this new maintenance cartridge but I am quite skeptical about this..
"2nd. No. Unloaded the substrate when you don't use it." Ok but ain't that crazy to unload the substrate every time you do not use a printer?

I deffenitly don't get the "calibration of the substrate operation" so often. Hopefully we do not use this printer for major jobs beacause we would close doors in a month.

We have had Rolands printer, summa, gerber, HP 300 latex series, Epson surecolor and never seen a printer that's costing so much money.
 
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balstestrat

balstestrat

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petit said:
"2nd. No. Unloaded the substrate when you don't use it." Ok but ain't that crazy to unload the substrate every time you do not use a printer?

I deffenitly don't get the "calibration of the substrate operation" so often. Hopefully we do not use this printer for major jobs beacause we would close doors in a month.

We have had Rolands printer, summa, gerber, HP 300 latex series, Epson surecolor and never seen a printer that's costing so much money.
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Well that's why it keeps doing to movements if you keep it loaded. So you can choose, keep it in and it will just move it back and forth or unload and it will not do it.

I have to say I don't know what "calibration" you are referring to. Every day it will ask you to do a cleaning when you wake it up but you can choose to not do it if you wish.
It's not doing any "calibration" really just a cleaning and a nozzle detection.

It would probably be more beneficial for you to actually use the printer more so you are just not cleaning and cleaning but rather printing as well.
 
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petit

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"Every day it will ask you to do a cleaning when you wake it up but you can choose to not do it if you wish."
I do not agree with this beacuse it will even do it automatically as well when you will send a job to print .

So you can never avoid this, wich get maintenance cartridge to be down in nearly 2 month, so 250 euros every 2 month, craziest thing ever.
 
balstestrat

balstestrat

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Ah yeah of course it will perform the cleaning every time you start to print. However if your printheads are functioning normally it shouldn't take longer than 5 minutes. Even for the first one of the day.
Maybe part of your issue is if you only print white, your CMYK heads are clogged all the time and the cleaning will always try to fix that. So it will end up taking forever and using more of the maintenance cartridge.

You can prolong the current maintenance cartridge life with a little hack and it will probably last twice as long. I have it posted in the full L700 / L800 thread.
But that's what the new cartridge will be able to do.
 
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petit

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Funny as i have already thought about removing the liquid and tried it but the cartridge was still rejected after that.
What do you mean into installing new white square, sorry but i don't get this.
thanks
 
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petit

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Ok does this means that black squares are reconized by the printer as an expired maintenance cartridge ?
This would also mean that all the other maintenance parts built in the cartridge like scrapers and sweepers could last twice longer without the waste ink level?
 
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