Yikes.. My back ink ran out over the weekend

[SummitSignsandmore]

Hey all, When I returned to my shop this morning My black Ink cartridge whet dry. This was my fault. I knew it was low.. I should have swapped out before I left..


Now my colors are all outta wack.

I assume ink was taken from other cartrides possibly?

Blacks are printing green
and magenta is printing goldish...

yikes not good???

Any advise?

I'm currently just trying to run solid back and magenta prints to maybe clear the lines???

Maybe??

Any advise?????

 

[Gino]

Probably a few medium to strong cleaning cycles should do it.

 

[SummitSignsandmore]

Thanks.. I'm going to give that a try.


When I was printing the solid black is was coming out a dark to medium green, it was progressivly getting lighter which kinda worried me. I would think over time it would get darker???

 

[HulkSmash]

Maybe to an inkfill on the black?

 

[SummitSignsandmore]

I did 3 strong cleans and the black is back...

The magenta is printing a salmon like color.. Getting close

 

[Compilla]

Any advise?????

I will advise you to provide the printer's model info first.

 

[SummitSignsandmore]

The printer model would have help as well.. Sorry I discluded that from my original post. My Mutoh ValueJet is now back in action. It took about 5 strong cleans.. Lesson learned on my half.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR ALL THE HELPFUL INSITE..

 

[Robert M]

Falcon

If you have a Falcon, check the capping station, the sponges in there may be touching the head and causing it to draw down ink via a siphon effect

 

[randya]

You need to find the cause of this.
Typically, it is the swelling of the cap pad, very rare in Valuejets, but it does happen.
You are probably in for at least a cap, if not a maintenance station.

 

[John Butto]

How hard is it to replace just the cap on a Valuejet 1204

 

[signage]

If one cartridge gets a lot lower than others and ink comes in contact with the head it will back low trying to equalize the pressure.