Hi all,
so my company got a SwissQprint Impala 4 this past August, and the thing is incredibly efficient for what we print. It's replicating screenprinted colors with ease. We also have our old Oce Arizona 480GT, which we now never use aside from doing daily nozzle checks and maintenance once a day. We've been trying to find a buyer for the Oce ever since we purchased the Impala. However, at this point we are spending thousands of dollars on ink we aren't even using aside from purging and printing nozzle checks.
Is there a way that I can drain and flush the inks and essentially put it into storage without having a tech come out? Canon sent us an estimate of $3,000 minimum to have a tech come out to put the press into storage mode, and unfortunately my boss doesn't want to do that either.
We don't have access to the Service and Diagnostics tab, but what we do have is the Ink Flush option under Tools & Utilities. A thought I had was that we could maybe trick the printer into flushing UV flush through the ink system, essentially flushing all of the ink out and leaving only the flush behind which would mean that we wouldn't have to worry about the ink drying in the system. I was thinking that we could do this by cutting the tops off of expired ink bags, cleaning the bags out, and filling the bags with UV flush. I feel like this is probably a bad way to go about things though... No reason, just a hunch, haha.
Canon won't give any help over the phone without sending a tech out either, which is lame. SwissQprint's team is far more helpful and has walked us through nearly everything over the phone which has been refreshing.
Any help that y'all can offer is absolutely welcome. I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty here or to take things apart, so I'm all ears an willing to try anything. Thanks everyone and happy new year.
so my company got a SwissQprint Impala 4 this past August, and the thing is incredibly efficient for what we print. It's replicating screenprinted colors with ease. We also have our old Oce Arizona 480GT, which we now never use aside from doing daily nozzle checks and maintenance once a day. We've been trying to find a buyer for the Oce ever since we purchased the Impala. However, at this point we are spending thousands of dollars on ink we aren't even using aside from purging and printing nozzle checks.
Is there a way that I can drain and flush the inks and essentially put it into storage without having a tech come out? Canon sent us an estimate of $3,000 minimum to have a tech come out to put the press into storage mode, and unfortunately my boss doesn't want to do that either.
We don't have access to the Service and Diagnostics tab, but what we do have is the Ink Flush option under Tools & Utilities. A thought I had was that we could maybe trick the printer into flushing UV flush through the ink system, essentially flushing all of the ink out and leaving only the flush behind which would mean that we wouldn't have to worry about the ink drying in the system. I was thinking that we could do this by cutting the tops off of expired ink bags, cleaning the bags out, and filling the bags with UV flush. I feel like this is probably a bad way to go about things though... No reason, just a hunch, haha.
Canon won't give any help over the phone without sending a tech out either, which is lame. SwissQprint's team is far more helpful and has walked us through nearly everything over the phone which has been refreshing.
Any help that y'all can offer is absolutely welcome. I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty here or to take things apart, so I'm all ears an willing to try anything. Thanks everyone and happy new year.
