Priming HP Designjet 130 NR - New tubes

[safoyyah]

THank you for your sharing.

My yellow ink runs out after several small prints, and part way thru a large photo. Should I clean the tubes as did the previous user?

Thank you.

[Copysoft]

Probbaly you have yellow ink dried in tube. Try to pull ink with syringe, as secribed in previus messages. If you get yellow ink in the syringe it is done - you have no cloged tubes, but otherwise you have unclog it to make the printer work fine. I did it m self and it is not so hard.

[bigj2]

Hi

I have managed to draw ink from the tubes so they are not clogged. I have cleaned the printheads (yellow an cyan) so when I push them down on a piece of paper I get two clear in lines on the paper. The are now faulty printhead despays on my plotter display but when I do printhead alignment the yellow and cyan does not print a single dot. Anny suggestions?. This is on a hp 130nr that was not printing for about 6 mouths .

[davidzuts]

If you are getting faulty printheads on the display you should not be able to even do a calibration so something does not sound right. If the plotter has not been used for 5 months then I would replace the printheads which are not printing.

[bigj2]

Sorry typo, there is no faulty printhead display on the printer, as if all are good.

[davidzuts]

I would still replace the yellow and cyan printheads. Keep in mind you have two cyan heads as there is cyan and light cyan and they are hard to tell apart. Also yellow is sometimes hard to see on the media.