Ok what do you do when you cant print anything becase everytime you try the ****ing magenta starts banding like a ****er
I have cleaned my printer easily 50 times today trying to get some decent prints that HAVE to go out monday. I have run fill cap, all the cleaning modes, checked the spacing But everytinme i print 1ft into it the ****ing magenta starts clogging up and ruins the print. I have run 8 pass 4 pass everything i have adjusted the temp I have been here 8 hours trying to print 10 prints. I have gotten a total of 2 and they still have some banding problems on them.
I have to say this printer sucks I really wish mr ****ing seiko was here so I could kill him. This is the most un-consistent machine ever.
If there are some seiko people here you know this and your techs suck ass!
I just wanted to let you all know how I feel about this machine, in-case anyone was unsure. 2years running it and still cannot predict if it will print well or not.
1) No easy way out of this, deflected ink drop. Which nozzle check pattern you printed? Standard or the engineer maintainance mode, standard patterns tells little about deflected ink drops while the other shows clearly (all nozzle firing but with white lines on the solid color and out of place lines), to solve this one you need few unique tools, will not explain, too much to put here.
2) If this is not the case, then the rubber o-ring is the problem (placed inside the cap where the ink tube connected to the printhead), replace it.
3) Last one, damper (a square thin plastic ink holder about 40mmx40mm connected to ink tubes on booth ends, with one side transperant where you can see the ink inside), too much air inside, lost pressure, no easy way to check this, have to remove the circuit board above printhead, access it from there, if ink fills anything less than 30% of the damper, this is the one. to solve this, you need to remove the cover below printhead to access the ink pump(with gear), unscrew it(2 of them), tilt damper upside down, then turn the gear on the pump away from you firmly and quickly (if not sure, leave pump on printer and start head cleaning process, it'll show you the direction to turn), you'll notice the ink start to fill up inside the damper, at about 80% full, put back everything, run a cycle normal head cleaning, that's it.
time spent:
1) 1 to 2 hour (if this is the one, well, hard luck, you need few special tools, all user cleaning mode will not help you, even fill cap over 1 week, trust me, i've tried)
2) this is the most easier one, 10 min the most but you need the new rubber o-ring as well as doing the manual ink pumping in 3.
yeah walter, i agree with your technical remarks, our friend here should have found this forum earlier and he definitely should make those adjustments.
and all i wanna say - that printer doesn't blow, that printer is tits :)
