Set up the printer last night with 3 medium jobs to print while I went home to crash. Got into the shop this morning and all was fine, jobs printed and cut just as they should. I set up the printer for a few more print/cut jobs and went to weed and trim the jobs from last night, when I turned around the color was so distorted I ran over and hit pause/cancel thinking I did something wrong with the set up.
After finding out all was right I decided to do a test print. The results of the test print revealed that cyan was dropping out to almost non existent. I preformed a powerful head cleaning, no ink pumping to the bottle though so I checked the capping stations for drainage while manually operating the pump, they drained fine so I assume that the seal is bad and I need new capping stations, But something was telling me to look deeper. I went to check my dampers and found that the cyan damper was just kind of sitting funny compared to the rest of them and when I went to touch it I found that the nipple on the manifold going into the damper was broken!
Is that common that the manifolds break without any rhyme or reason?? I reassembled everything and made sure the heads are on the capping stations until I can get parts in a few days, do I need to do anything else to be sure the cyan/black head doesn't dry out? I can replace the manifold and damper for a few dollars or should I replace the print head with both dampers?
Thanks in advance for any help.
After finding out all was right I decided to do a test print. The results of the test print revealed that cyan was dropping out to almost non existent. I preformed a powerful head cleaning, no ink pumping to the bottle though so I checked the capping stations for drainage while manually operating the pump, they drained fine so I assume that the seal is bad and I need new capping stations, But something was telling me to look deeper. I went to check my dampers and found that the cyan damper was just kind of sitting funny compared to the rest of them and when I went to touch it I found that the nipple on the manifold going into the damper was broken!
Is that common that the manifolds break without any rhyme or reason?? I reassembled everything and made sure the heads are on the capping stations until I can get parts in a few days, do I need to do anything else to be sure the cyan/black head doesn't dry out? I can replace the manifold and damper for a few dollars or should I replace the print head with both dampers?
Thanks in advance for any help.
