I am looking for a little help if anyone has a little experience with the Versacamm hardware systems.
I was having a problem with muddy ink, so I did a flush, replaced dampers and capping stations. The color cleared up, but the magenta and yellow head just faded off to nothing. I have a CMYK test pattern that I run to look at the colors and I just watched the M Y head just fade away. When I print, the B C head does ok, but there is terrible overspray that just appeared. I was thinking about ordering a pair of new heads, but something kept telling me that it isn't a head.
I then swapped the ribbon cables and then the M Y head was printing and the B C was not. I swapped them back and then I was back to no M Y.
Several years back, I had the main board repaired and I don't exactly remember what the symptoms were back then. So, here I am not wanting to replace heads until I solve the actual problem. If I order a new print carriage board, and then it does not fix the problem, I have to wait for the mainboard to go off for repair and get back before I know if that is the problem. After that, I would have to wait for print heads to show up.
I know, long post, but I am trying to make sure I describe everything. Oh yeah, and I never work on the printer while it is plugged in.
Please, need some advise.
Thanks Don
I was having a problem with muddy ink, so I did a flush, replaced dampers and capping stations. The color cleared up, but the magenta and yellow head just faded off to nothing. I have a CMYK test pattern that I run to look at the colors and I just watched the M Y head just fade away. When I print, the B C head does ok, but there is terrible overspray that just appeared. I was thinking about ordering a pair of new heads, but something kept telling me that it isn't a head.
I then swapped the ribbon cables and then the M Y head was printing and the B C was not. I swapped them back and then I was back to no M Y.
Several years back, I had the main board repaired and I don't exactly remember what the symptoms were back then. So, here I am not wanting to replace heads until I solve the actual problem. If I order a new print carriage board, and then it does not fix the problem, I have to wait for the mainboard to go off for repair and get back before I know if that is the problem. After that, I would have to wait for print heads to show up.
I know, long post, but I am trying to make sure I describe everything. Oh yeah, and I never work on the printer while it is plugged in.
Please, need some advise.
Thanks Don