now my other roland is acting up

[petepaz]

not a good day
first my vp540 is printing a shadow (posted a thread earlier with no response as of yet)
and now my sp300v is not printing yellow
i put a new cartrigde in and did 2 powerfull cleanings
and still my test print comes out with little or no yellow
it actually looks like the magenta is running into the yellow

 

[petepaz]

pics didn't come out so great
apparently the batteries in my camera are going also and the flash didn't work
what a great day
#%*@&%$#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(didn't want to print foul language)

 

[futuredcon]

Dampers?

 

[ballgame]

Looks like you will be replacing a captop and damper

 

[Mike Paul]

Print one or two solid yellow blocks, probably just needs priming.

 

[petepaz]

expensive?
can i do it my self or does a tech have to do it?

 

[stillhasdust]

the cap heads are $30 and the dampers are like $30 as well. I would say you can replace both parts by yourself

 

[ericmitchell29]

check your yellow cartridge. You may have a magenta cartridge listed as yellow. This happened to a friend of mine.
I hope thats not the case. But gotta check it.

 

[petepaz]

thanks for the help folks
tech guy from sign supply was here today
(that's who we bought the machines from) and he got both of them working
needed a new pump and damper and he checked out my vp as well
295 labor 3 hours + parts
but we are up and running again

 

[asd]

when my printer was doing that the heads had to be replace it was like a 18 months ago

 

[Pacific Coast Sign]

If you have a bad cap and one cartridge completely runs dry, at times this will allow the empty cartridge to siphon from the full cartridge.
Put in a new cartridge and cap, then use a syringe (or pwr clean) to pull fresh ink till you get the proper color back. I like to use the syringe method as this doesn't waste a lot ink like the pwr clean option. NOTE: If you see air bubbles in the syringe as you pull ink then you have an air leak someplace else, check the damper and ink line connections.