sp300v issue

It needs to be plugged in so it can perform its cleaning cycle.

 

As was said, yours should do a cleaning cycle as long as the main power is on and you just turn off the pannel power.

My old CJ converted sits for a week when I am gone and does not have a cleaning cycle, and when I get back I flush the drain lines and do one cleaning cycle and its ready to go. The odd time there is other issues but for the most part its not dried ink in the heads.

Make sure your drain lines are clear. Use cleaning fluid to force some through. Should be able to remove each line from the capping station and use a syringe with fluid and connect there.

I don't have that printer so I am not so sure on where to get at the capping station.

The temperature for these printers needs to be right as well. If the garage is cooler than 65 deg you may have issues. Not sure again of your units opperating temp but there is something to it. My print heads won't recharge with ink some times when the temp is too low.

 

It might be the cold. What my printer does is it will print but once the head is out of ink it does not seem to recharge, even when the damper looks fine (about 1/2 full is normal). I would do a cleaning and it would fill the heads fine and print for a bit and drop out, once the head went dry. Once I brought the temp up above 65 F (in the printer menu) it recharged just fine.

Drain lines are a big thing to watch. If they get plugged then the heads can't recharge even on a cleaning cycle. Make sure you have cleaning solution on hand, you will use it every day.

Get the temp up in that garage if you can.

Even a radiant heater can warm the printer and not need to heat the whole garage.

 

Before this gets any worse, I would suggest the following

A) getting the room up to room temperature at all times and perform routine Environmental Match Checks on the machine until you do so

B) Contact InkJetAuction on here and see if you get some advice and hook up with either him or someone in the area on getting a service tech (yes a service tech and yes it may cost you a few bucks) to come out and perform a Preventative Maintenance call on your machine.

Get it up to speed the right way before it costs you more money in the long run.

 

Help is on the way

Thanks for the referral Dan. PM sent to Turbo.
He's just a few miles away... and I'll take care of him.

~E

 

Done

Got him up and running on Friday nite.
He's very happy.

~E