Is it possible to reduce the number of printheads HP LATEX?

[designtcd]

Hello, I have had an HP Latex 360 for 6 months now, bought second-hand. Suddenly the black color left the lines it happened, when I finished printing 5m2, immediately after that I released the new 5m2 it happened that the black color leaves the lines and until a few minutes ago everything was fine. I did the cleaning and did the Test plot, and only the black color doesn't come out of that head, and it has 2 black / blue heads. I took out that head and did a manual cleaning with distilled water, I did it a couple of times, and I got 80% - 90% nozzles, but the lines are still visible on the print.


Now I am interested as the HP Latex 360 has 6 heads
1 OP
2 C / K
2 Y / M
1 LC / LM

Is it possible to make it work on only 4 heads:
1 OP
1 C / K
1 Y / M
1 LC / LM

Thanks

 

[Geneva Olson]

nope. all of them are used. in fact, if one goes out, you might as well be prepared to replace all of them. i had faulty print jobs and when i replaced one print head, i ended up replacing them all. prints perfectly after replacing all of them.

 

[balstestrat]

You can disable the LM/LC but not the other rows.

 

[Geneva Olson]

You can disable the LM/LC but not the other rows.

does it screw with the print quality?

 

[balstestrat]

does it screw with the print quality?

Not really that much.

 

[balstestrat]

So, what would happen if you block the 2 'extra' printheads with some tape, and run everything at 20 passes? Would you have very narrow, but frequent banding?

It would probably look like banding crap that's missing half of the density.

 

[Ezek0]

So, what would happen if you block the 2 'extra' printheads with some tape, and run everything at 20 passes? Would you have very narrow, but frequent banding?

It will not work and most probably result in ink spilling everywhere. Not a good idea.