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The ink levels on roland printers are only a rough estimate. They just work on how long the printer is on doing something, and assume how much ink is being used. It will tell you when the ink is low though, so don't worry about what it shows before then.

Awesome, well done !

I think metallic is worse than white, although I have never used that on our printers. Roland printers 'can' print using specialist inks, but they don't seem very happy using them

One thing I forgot to mention ! Roland printers hate being stood not being used. It is best to use them every day to keep the ink flowing. If you don't have any print jobs to do that day , make up some artwork of 1 inch square blocks of C, M, Y and K running across the width of the page, and...

p.s. and happy to help!

Awesome news :) , I think the cap top was only part of the problem as the ink wasn't coming through to the head before, but looks like you are most of the way there now. The Roland white ink is a total pain ! It seems to clog as soon as you look at it if it isn't getting much use. If you aren't...

If it is all clear doing a couple of powerful cleans should pull the ink through to the head, or you can use a syringe on the damper but you need to be very careful not to spill any ink on the head

Hopefully that will sort it

Oh and the top board doesn't have anything to do with the ink filling, it sends signals from the sensors in the cartridge dock to tell the printer a cartridge is inserted and if it is empty or not

You will also still need to pull ink through the tubes, they don't automatically fill when a cartridge is connected

It will most likely be the needles are still blocked. When left these are very prone to blocking as they are so narrow, you need to take these out and clean them as well and make sure they are flowing ok

I find as long as you flush it with the acetone so it is totally cleared and no pigment left in there then it works fine

Ah ok, well those 'refurbished' heads from china aren't refurbished really. Hopefully it will work, but don't be surprised if it doesnt

Hot water probably won't work. When the ink dries out it either goes completely solid, or takes on a consistency like thick oil paint. The best thing I have found to flush lines is acetone, but you will need a good few litres of it. It also needs quite a bit of pressure to push the acetone...

Had it been left not turned on for a while before you bought it? if it was then the ink could have dried in the lines. The first thing to do ( making sure the printer is off ! ) is to disconnect the dampers and use a syringe to see if you can gently draw ink into the damper. There should be some...

Glad it worked out. I had to do similar when I bought my new house and we realised the large 3 seater couch wouldn't go around the corners to get into the lounge, and it was too tall to get up on end ! Ended up taking out the lounge window glass and it took 2 minutes to get it in

One thing to check though is manually clean the head all around and check underneath for anything sticking to it like a stray hair which can cause problems

Your black head on the test print is showing deflected nozzles, that is what is causing the fuzziness around the edge. Time for a new head if the cleaning hasn't made it any better. It's not down to the encoder or any of the other settings, so they won't make a difference

I do quite a lot of design work, and tbh if the indians could work to the same quality and timeframe for $5 I would use them instead, but I have seen some really poor and average quality work. Its ok on something very basic, but not anything that involved more time or work

And I can imagine the quality of their work at that price....