How Inking System Works
No matter what kind of printer you bought from us, the principle
of ink delivery is the same. In this video, I will explain to you
how the inking system works in general and give you some
guidelines of daily maintenance and troubleshooting.
The Components
Right here is a printhead, this is an XP600 printhead from
EPSON. Once the printhead has been installed onto the
machine,the damper will be plugged in it . A Damper serves as
a flow control chamber for the ink, when ink flows from the tank
at the back of the machine, it first storage in the Damper, to
keep a continuous ink supply of the printhead.
A Printhead may have different sorts and types of technology,
some may use heat, some use mechanical processes , some
use vacuum, etc. The end result is the same, ink will be
squeezed out from nozzle which is an array of them on
printhead surface which is very small.
No matter how many nozzles a printhead has, they are always
grouped and stacked on top of the printhead, you will see the
ink inlet for each colour, which is also the place the damper sits
in. If a printhead has more than 1 inlet, meaning that it can print
more than 1 colour. Sometimes we try to use more than one
inlet for same colour to improve printing speed. The order of
the colour generally is not a major issue but the software has to
be setup in the same sequence so that the RIP (Raster Image
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