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SC-540 Light Cyan not firing?? Please help
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kffernandez
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check to make sure that you have ink for that side. otherwise, there's probably a leak in the damper.
Ive check all of that.. Plenty of ink.. I will change the damper to see if that helps. Do I need to bleed or just a simple replace?
kffernandez
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if the damper looks fine. then it might also be an o-ring problem. you could replace the o-ring, or better yet - change the damper as you mentioned.
if there are no problem in the ink system, the next possible culprits would be electrical in nature. check the cables, and/or swap them out like artbot always suggests. i sure hope the problem isn't with the head board or head itself.
if there are no problem in the ink system, the next possible culprits would be electrical in nature. check the cables, and/or swap them out like artbot always suggests. i sure hope the problem isn't with the head board or head itself.
Also would iy help if I pump some cleaning fluid with a syringe into the print head from where the damper connects?
kffernandez
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i wouldn't recommend it. there isn't any particular reason for just half of your head to suddenly clog up. what you could do is to use a syringe to pull ink from the pumps in order to make sure that the ink is flowing nicely.
Should you be able to see ink in the tubes going to the heads?
Also now a few more have dropped completely out??
Into the the head issue?
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kffernandez
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lolz. common sense would dictate that since you can only see a few drops of ink on your lines - then either you have a major leak on your lines, or you are just basically out of ink. i thought you said that you already checked that?
btw, your magenta is also out of ink.
Do you think it's a ink issue? Should I bleed or prime the ink?
If so where from. The tube on top of the heads or from the pump?
kffernandez
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please make sure that you actually have ink. after you actually do that, you can prime it. if you've had ink all this time, then there is a leak somewhere. but that is very unlikely since you're not complaining of ink being everywhere.
kelly
lolz. common sense would dictate that since you can only see a few drops of ink on your lines - then either you have a major leak on your lines, or you are just basically out of ink. i thought you said that you already checked that?
btw, your magenta is also out of ink.
Yeah the all still have plenty of ink in te cartrages. So air in the lines? Hoe to I bleed or prime.
kffernandez
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you can prime it by pulling ink from the pumps. but before i do that, i'd try to figure out where all the air come from first. i'd first take a look at the dampers.