Roland SP300I Test Print Gap

[Dicer4life]

Hey guys, new here so I hope this is in the right category thread.
I have noticed a couple days back banding issues that came up on my Roland SP300I. I ran a Nozzle Check and yep there's the issue.
Did a couple 12h head soaks but the test Nozzle Check stays the same. What would y'all suggest to do next? Thanks

 

[Roland Certified Tech]

Hey guys, new here so I hope this is in the right category thread.
I have noticed a couple days back banding issues that came up on my Roland SP300I. I ran a Nozzle Check and yep there's the issue.
Did a couple 12h head soaks but the test Nozzle Check stays the same. What would y'all suggest to do next? Thanks
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This is very simple. You are most likely using the short media clamps. If these lift up, , they will damage the printheads with their front raised lip on the front of them.. This is what has most happened. The front lip on the short media clamps has damaged the rear of your print heads. Unfortunately, it is a bad designed by Roland and it takes out print heads. There are long media clamps that came with the printer however, most people don’t want to use them because they can’t do a sheet cut. Roland went away from the short media clamps. So what do you do now. Basically what you’re going to have to do is print in high quality. You also can run your feed calibration and possibly “cheat“ it to compensate for this, ultimately you will most likely will need 2 print heads and never use those short media clamps or take those to an anvil and flatten out the lip on the front of them.
I hope you have a nice evening.

 

[Dicer4life]

This is very simple. You are most likely using the short media clamps. If these lift up, , they will damage the printheads with their front raised lip on the front of them.. This is what has most happened. The front lip on the short media clamps has damaged the rear of your print heads. Unfortunately, it is a bad designed by Roland and it takes out print heads. There are long media clamps that came with the printer however, most people don’t want to use them because they can’t do a sheet cut. Roland went away from the short media clamps. So what do you do now. Basically what you’re going to have to do is print in high quality. You also can run your feed calibration and possibly “cheat“ it to compensate for this, ultimately you will most likely will need 2 print heads and never use those short media clamps or take those to an anvil and flatten out the lip on the front of them.
I hope you have a nice evening.

Hey there! couldn't be caused by the short media clamps because I don't have any.
You believe this dead nozzles & not just clogged ones? I don't see any head strike on my media that could've explain this.
thanks

 

[Jim Hancock]

Have you examined the bottom of the heads to look for any physical damage or ink buildup?

 

[Joesignshop]

This is very simple. You are most likely using the short media clamps. If these lift up, , they will damage the printheads with their front raised lip on the front of them.. This is what has most happened. The front lip on the short media clamps has damaged the rear of your print heads. Unfortunately, it is a bad designed by Roland and it takes out print heads. There are long media clamps that came with the printer however, most people don’t want to use them because they can’t do a sheet cut. Roland went away from the short media clamps. So what do you do now. Basically what you’re going to have to do is print in high quality. You also can run your feed calibration and possibly “cheat“ it to compensate for this, ultimately you will most likely will need 2 print heads and never use those short media clamps or take those to an anvil and flatten out the lip on the front of them.
I hope you have a nice evening.

How do you cheat the feed compensation?

 

[Roland Certified Tech]

How do you cheat the feed compensation?

Just run the feed calibration print test and then just adjust those settings. Of course you have to make sure Versaworks a set to use either the printer settings or custom settings that you put in.