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My Roland was uncapped for as much as five days

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Jack Knight1979

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The family and I took a vacation to Disney. I did a thorough manual cleaning and put it to sleep.

I get back last night around midnight. Stop into the shop and hear a beeping noise from the printer. I don't know when it happened but the printer went for an automated cleaning over the last week and faulted. I took the cover off and the worst possible scenario has happened. The caps were down, the carriage was past the wipers and uncapped for as much as a week.

Welcome back from vacation! That will be six thousand dollars please.

I pulled all the dampers and took a syringe full of flush through all the heads and got full recovery. I then did three medium cleanings and everything is fine. The Roland is running like nothing happened. I felt like I was kicked in the stomach when I saw the heads uncapped after a week long vacation. Thankfully all is well.

Moral of the story: Clean your printers then fully power them down. It's better to have them totally off and capped then to be beeping and uncapped for days on end.
 
TheSnowman

TheSnowman

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That's nuts...sometimes stuff can take more abuse than you realize though. Sadly, you don't find that out till you are on the other side of it.
 
cha88

cha88

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im leaving for 10-12 days next friday and ive been thinking about this for weeks now...doy ou think the best thing to do is power it off completly ?
 
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Jack Knight1979

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Before this happened I would have said no. You have to leave it on for cleaning cycles, but now, I say shut it off.

Unless you have someone there to check on it daily for faults, clean it very well and power it down. When you get back do a head soak a couple normal cleanings and you'll be fine.

I about died when I saw those heads exposed like that, just sitting there. The caps were all died up too. It was a horror show. It's a miracle that I was able to get them working again with little effort. I thought I was sunk.
 
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