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I am having a big issue printing yellows the last week or so. They start out very green and then slowly fad to yellow after about 8-10 inches of material. Yesterday I cleaned my VS300 and the head had what looked like beads of blue ink all over the head which I have never seen before. Also the capping station had a pool of ink in it. What could be the cause of this issue and how can I go about resolving it?

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Permalink Reply by Butch on October 18, 2011 at 12:07pm
You captop spring is bad. It should be covered under warranty or recall.
Permalink Reply by Lorri Schmidt on October 19, 2011 at 10:55am

How can you tell it's the spring and not a capping station??  I had all colors printing fine last week and on Tuesday of this week my yellow is printing orange.  I assume I need a new capping station. My test print also has alot of ink drop out especially the black. And when I checked I'm told I probably need a new print head.  Ugh!   I will of course try new capping station, but anyone have any other ideas to try prior to ordering a new head and incurring $1300 expense.

I have done a manual clean and put cleaning solution on the capping station(first time-learned that on forum yesterday).  Maybe now that it's sat overnight things will be better.

Thanks for any input.

 

Permalink Reply by Butch on October 19, 2011 at 11:50am
Lorri, The VS series have had an issue with captop spring. What machine do you have?
Permalink Reply by Mike F on October 19, 2011 at 12:52pm

In the OP she said a VS300, so that's probably the issue. Symptoms sound pretty similar to every other time I've heard of the spring being the issue.

 

Lorri, like Butch said, if it is the spring, it's covered. Call the company you got it from and describe the symptoms, and tell them you think it's the spring, they should take care of you.

Permalink Reply by Mike F on October 19, 2011 at 3:09pm

Apparently I need to pay better attention, for some reason I thought Lorri was the original poster.

Pete, like Butch said, if it is the spring, it's covered. Call the company you got it from and describe the symptoms, and tell them you think it's the spring, they should take care of you.

Permalink Reply by Lorri Schmidt on October 20, 2011 at 5:54pm

I have an SP-300V.

Any thoughts??

Permalink Reply by Butch on October 20, 2011 at 6:17pm
I have the same model.   Pour some more cleaner into the captops and see if they drain. Do test print and post a pic here - I'll tell you what to do with the head then. A bad captop will cause droplets and drop outs.
Permalink Reply by Lorri Schmidt on October 21, 2011 at 3:38pm
Will do.  I just can't wrap my head around it being a bad head.  I don't print as much as I should but I always leave the power on for 24 system clean.  And to be honest I've always had black drop outs since day 1.  Give me a couple days to post as I will be out of office the next 2 days.
Permalink Reply by Butch on October 21, 2011 at 4:12pm

I have some tricks that I use on my SP300 that might help you out.

Permalink Reply by Lorri Schmidt on October 24, 2011 at 1:40pm

Here's my test print.

I have done a manual clean several times, placed solvent in the cap heads, run 3 medium cleans.  I have not yet changed out the capping station but have one on hand to do so.

I don't run my machine weekly, but always have power on and it does it's auto cleaning every day. 

My magenta/yellow are printing better with cleaning but just have the block drop out now.

Everything printed well the week of Oct 10th, 2011

Thoughts!! 

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Permalink Reply by Admin on October 24, 2011 at 1:41pm
your black head needs replacement soon.
Permalink Reply by Lorri Schmidt on October 24, 2011 at 1:45pm

Would changing the capping station make any difference?

And what causes the head to go bad?  I keep the machine on and have the auto clean always set.

What causes the sudden change?  And why is it only the black and not the Cyan, when they share the same head.  Just very curious

 

 

 

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