Hi guys
I'm posting here coz i'm a complete tool and knackered my printhead.
I've got a Roland VS-640i, basically i tried changing my dampers as the white ink was not coming through. So I attempted to change the damper, I thought I might as well do all 4 seeing as i'm doing it anyway, and ink went everywhere, all the guides and videos in the world did not prepare me for it, it kept dripping and dripping and i got myself in such a state I couldn't remember where i put everything and the towels just got soaked and ended up going through to what was underneath.
My head was half filled up with ink, i had it on the cables where i was panicking and I tried to keep the cables out the way, on the top of the board a little dripped and the ink got on to the head board as well.
So after cleaning everything up as best I could, the print nozzle test was poor as expected, the more tests i printed the worse it got, to a point that I get nothing anymore.
I had a tech come round and he suspects it's not a printhead (well at first) as I was getting a nozzle pattern, but as i'm not getting anything now he does suspect a printhead.
He's syringed the capping station while the head was on it and he can pull ink through ok, so he doesnt think it's blocked, more the actual board on the head that's damaged.
The thing is nothing is guaranteed, he says it the boards, but it well could be the carriage board or even the main board.
Can anyone help with any tests I can perform to see?
I don't want to fork out on a printhead if it's a board and vice versa, the printer is only a year old.
I'm posting here coz i'm a complete tool and knackered my printhead.
I've got a Roland VS-640i, basically i tried changing my dampers as the white ink was not coming through. So I attempted to change the damper, I thought I might as well do all 4 seeing as i'm doing it anyway, and ink went everywhere, all the guides and videos in the world did not prepare me for it, it kept dripping and dripping and i got myself in such a state I couldn't remember where i put everything and the towels just got soaked and ended up going through to what was underneath.
My head was half filled up with ink, i had it on the cables where i was panicking and I tried to keep the cables out the way, on the top of the board a little dripped and the ink got on to the head board as well.
So after cleaning everything up as best I could, the print nozzle test was poor as expected, the more tests i printed the worse it got, to a point that I get nothing anymore.
I had a tech come round and he suspects it's not a printhead (well at first) as I was getting a nozzle pattern, but as i'm not getting anything now he does suspect a printhead.
He's syringed the capping station while the head was on it and he can pull ink through ok, so he doesnt think it's blocked, more the actual board on the head that's damaged.
The thing is nothing is guaranteed, he says it the boards, but it well could be the carriage board or even the main board.
Can anyone help with any tests I can perform to see?
I don't want to fork out on a printhead if it's a board and vice versa, the printer is only a year old.