Printhead malfunction after 1 use

[Amber01234]

Last week the company I work for purchased a brand new HP Latex 315 large format printer. After assembly, one print was made in order to test quality. After this, the printer was not in use for approximately 1 week. Upon attempting to print today, I was met with the error message 98:03 "Potential print-quality problem. Check printheads using the printhead status plot.". After receiving this message, I found the corresponding action from the manual, in which it was stated that there was a printhead malfunction, and to use to status plot to locate which printhead to have it replaced. Considering we are far under the 1000ml limit for warranty, we should be able to get a refund as this is clearly a faulty product. Though, I have been unable to contact ANYONE, or find ANY information on how to proceed with a warranty claim. As well, when I attempted to do a warranty check, the HP website did not recognize the provided (and correct) serial number. PLEASE provide a direct contact number in which we can follow through with our warranty claim.

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@Amber01234

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[robear0001]

I am having the same issue. I got the machine, it was installed. The tech, C, from where I got the printer ran the tests on the head, the plots, etc. Then he did a test run using one of my jobs. It worked fine. Nice print. Saw no errors on the screen.

Shook hands, he left, I went to lunch, came back several hours later. Reinstalled the same 36" media vinyl backlit substrate. Loaded fine. No errors. The media got hung up on the first print, somewhere in the middle of the curing unit. (Found out, that it catches in there everytime unless I advance the media wasting more on each job.) This job crashed, cleaned up the mess. Finished two more jobs.

Left machine to hibernate on itself. Planned next work, week later. 98:03 error everytime I start a job. Had another error where I had to Clean the heads. Basically tells me this everytime I power out of sleep mode. I have ran the test print plots and they looked ok to me. Still get those errors. But I was able to finish the jobs for that week with one spot that was appearing wet and some inky not so clean sparation between some light and dark areas.

The next week, again, it said I needed to clean the heads. Gave me the 98:03 error on every job, but they printed with the same ink issues on the heavy pass jobs.

Since then, I get what I have already said above, but now, I get a 63:05 error on every job, cancelling the job yet there is no network issue. Everything appears fine and data is flowing great. RIP software doesn't know the connection is gone until after you acknowledge the error. 

All I am doing is wasting some expensive media straight to garbage. This printer was installed in May. I have done 10 successful jobs, 7 of which have had the error 98:03, I haven't been able to complete a job since the 63:05 showed up.

R.S