FML! Help? what is going on here?

[kustomsigns&designs]

First off I have an sp540 everything was just cleaned or replaced including new pump and i'm still getting these stripes in the blues and blues only. Anyone have any suggestions ?

Oh yeah it only does this on banner material, and yes i have tried more than one type.

 

[CS-SignSupply]

What heater settings? Profile and other settings?

 

[Ragnabrok]

Everything was replaced? including caps and dampers? looks like a classic damper issue.

 

[Fatboy]

Sure the cyan damper was changed.Look at the damper and if it is full(not halfway) then that damper needs to be changed. Maybe they did change the dampers but the cyan damper can be faulty.Please let us know.

 

[kustomsigns&designs]

Damper was my first thought too, which was replaced first. I believe this is worse when I raise the head when printing banners. it still does it when the head is lowered just not as bad.

 

[ProWraps]

oh god. the dreaded cyan banding. ugh. it brings back chills. its a profiling issue. i printed like 10,000 sq/ft of light to dark fading cyan last month.

cyan is a complete mess to print. we got some help with our profile and made it work. took a lot of time, and we still had banding issues. cyan is so sensative that even the pressure the take up reel put on the media coming out of the printer would cause banding if it wasnt perfectly straight etc.

i cant help you with the roland as we run mutohs, but i can tell you that you should be able to "profile it out". its not a heater issue. trust me.

from what i understand, the registration of the dots being shot on the media is very critical with cyan. i was even told by an offset printer in my complex, that cyan is the worst for him too. what you are seeing is the magenta and the cyan dots not meshing perfectly. if you look close at the streak/s you will see exactly what im talking about.

we lowered our print resolution which helped and used different wave patterns, etc etc until we got it as good as we could.

 

[Stealth Ryder]

oh god. the dreaded cyan banding. ugh. it brings back chills. its a profiling issue. i printed like 10,000 sq/ft of light to dark fading cyan last month.

cyan is a complete mess to print. we got some help with our profile and made it work. took a lot of time, and we still had banding issues. cyan is so sensative that even the pressure the take up reel put on the media coming out of the printer would cause banding if it wasnt perfectly straight etc.

i cant help you with the roland as we run mutohs, but i can tell you that you should be able to "profile it out". its not a heater issue. trust me.

I Concur with Mr. ProWraps...

 

[kustomsigns&designs]

Yep, Pro that was it. I changed profiles til i got one to work, thanks for the input.

 

[CheapVehicleWrap]

Interesting. Thanks Pro&Stealth