Banner Print Settings on Roland

[kelly r]

I have a Roland sp300i and I’ve always printed on vinyl and banner and have never changed the height of the printhead. I am not even sure if I can on my printer. I just replaced the printhead and have to print on double sided 13 oz banner which I have done before but now I wonder if I need to change any settings so I don’t wreck a printhead. Any help is appreciated! TIA

 

[Rmurray321]

13oz is a “standard” banner thickness, whatever you have been doing is probably fine. However you may want to consider a blockout banner material if you’re doing a 2 sided print

 

[Mike Paul]

Raising the print head should be an option in your settings.
Why not just outsource it?

 

[UnionPrinter]

i have a sp540v, i believe yours is the same as mine. when it comes to damaging the head, as long as you don't see it
smearing the print, then the head is not hitting the media and you'll be fine. But you will see a quality difference in raising
or lowing the head on certain thickness of materials. It's a lever inside the printer. When in front of the print, open the clear
front cover (do this as the printer is off) and look over to where the print head is at. Next to it, you see a lever with a white
handle. You either lift the lever up or down. HOLD all this. I just checked and the 30" doesn't have a height adjustment.

Read the doc I'm sending you.

 

[UnionPrinter]

So you should be ok. It's just one standard height on your printer.

 

[Boudica]

I have a Roland sp300i and I’ve always printed on vinyl and banner and have never changed the height of the printhead. I am not even sure if I can on my printer. I just replaced the printhead and have to print on double sided 13 oz banner which I have done before but now I wonder if I need to change any settings so I don’t wreck a printhead. Any help is appreciated! TIA

If it's double sided, are you sure what you have is 13oz?
Could be 15 or 18 ounce banner? If what you have is meant to be printed on both sides, and it's a new issue... I'd say it's thicker than before.

 

[Broome Signs]

Most Roland printers have a small lever on the side of the print carriage
move it up to rase the print hight
then go into main menu, scroll to head hight, push enter

pb

 

[kelly r]

Thank you! It is a 13 oz double sided banner. Anything I have read the 30” has no way to change the head height. Which is weird. Yes it has printed fine in the past. I guess I’ll just keep an eye on it. Just being extra cautious with the new head!

 

[Broome Signs]

looks like you can't just the head hight, page 72 on the manual

https://downloadcenter.rolanddg.com/contents/manuals/SP-540i_300i_USE_EN_R8.pdf

try lowering the temperature and slow the print speed down

PB