Hp designjet 130

	Hp designjet 130 by Sonja___ (1/19/07 9:03 AM) reply	+ / -
Hello, we've got a problem with our printer (HP Designjet 130). As you can see on the scanned print below, the colour is not appearing correctly on the bottom (should be green). We've tried with different settings and used the maintenance function, but still no improvement. What shall I do? please click on the link to see the scan: http://img342.imageshack.us/img342/1773/hpdesignjetzd3.jpg

	Re: Hp designjet 130 by Stephen (1/19/07 7:43 PM) reply	+ / -
Looks like a clogged printhead. Try drawing blocks and filling them with cyan, magenta, and yellow and printing them to see which color is failing, if the printer uses other colors try thme too. (not sure if this is a 4 or 6 head printer)

	Re: Hp designjet 130 by Ranger390 (9/12/07 12:02 PM) reply	+1 + / -
Hi, did you find a fix for your disappearing color problem on the DSJ 130? Thanks

	Re: Hp designjet 130 by Dave Graham (1/8/09 11:44 AM) reply	+ / -
I've got a designjet 130 with the roll feed option. It seems to print its own self test / information pages fine when fed from the front with single sheets but when I try to feed it with roll from the back it goes into "frustrate the user" mode. Some of the things it does are - produce a paper skew error; produce a paper feed error; just beep and do nothing - all indicated on the display. It will feed the paper in to the point where it looks as if it's going to stop and then unspool it again and then maybe flag another error and possibly beep a few times. It can just sit and sound as though it's recycling something inside for a few minutes and then do any of the things noted above. I'm prepared to accept that I might misfeed the paper a few times but not completely consistently like this. I have trawled around looking at all the references I can find - none of them seem to say much other then repeat my experiences and indicate that I might have to try 10 or 15 times to get the paper to stay loaded. Is there some fix for this? I should say that all of this has been carried out without a computer connected and with or without an additional network card attached. The frustrating thing is that I picked it up for almost nothing at a company bankruptcy sale and it's only done about 300 prints - almost new and already only just escaped my lump hammer of frustration. Thanks in advance and if anyone needs any help with DataProducts interfaces or other stuff out of the ark do say - at least you could see what was happening inside printers then even if it wouldn't print photo quality A0 pictures in less than a day. Regards Dave

	Re: Hp designjet 130 by Anonymous (1/28/09 3:44 AM) reply	+ / -
if its any consolation many such problems have been reported. i am experiencing this kind of problems myself. i have come to think that the printer does not recognize the roll-there is no indication in the lcd front screen-. professional help seems to be needed.patience!

	Re: Hp designjet 130 by Ranger390 (1/28/09 4:30 AM) reply	+ / -
You could run the "Calibrate the paper feed" option. You set the paper type when doing this for the paper type you are using. This could affect paper movement and detection.

	Re: Hp designjet 130 by Anonymous (1/29/09 1:57 AM) reply	+ / -
thanks for the responce. the paper feed calibration failed. i tried printing from roll but the roll indication on the lcd screen kept blinking. i am guessing there is something the matter with the left part that holds the roll because no lights-green, orange or any other color- appear on it. i don t know what part this is though.thanks

	Re: Hp designjet 130 by Ranger390 (1/29/09 4:12 AM) reply	+ / -
If you are loosing color or have fading/missing color on the printed sheets as above... check the printheads. They are removeable and have a date printed on them. There is a config sheet you can printout and view the age and usage of each printhead. This problem can occur on printheads used well past their life and printheads that are not used as much but are past their life usage.

	Re: Hp designjet 130 by Ranger390 (edited 1/29/09 4:30 AM) reply	+ / -
There are two slots on the back of the printer for loading paper, an upper and lower… the upper is for sheet fed paper and the lower is where the roll paper feeds into. Is this familiar? A FLASHING roll symbol means the roll is empty or a paper jam. 130 Roll loading instructions… This section is only relevant if your printer has a roll feed installed. Only one source of paper can be used by the printer at any one time, so if a roll of paper is loaded and the software requests printing on a sheet of paper: • If you have a manual roll feed installed on your printer, you must unload the roll manually before you can print to a sheet of paper. • If you have the Automatic Roll Feed installed on your printer, the roll is automatically unloaded by the printer. In any case, the roll is automatically reloaded the next time printing to the roll is requested. You can cut a roll without unloading it by pressing the OK key (top right key on the front panel); the paper first advances about 1 cm or 0.4 inch. 1. Set your application to pick paper from the roll feed (only applicable with the manual roll feed). 2. Select Print from your application. 3. Load a roll of the required paper onto the spindle. Ensure that the roll is the right way round with the surface on which you wish to print facing up and that the blue stop on the spindle is pushed in against the paper. 4. Insert the spindle into its retaining slots, with the blue stop on the right and the black stop on the left as seen from the rear of the printer. If the paper is glossy, we recommend that you wear gloves to avoid smearing the surface of the paper. 5. Make sure that the leading edge of the roll is straight and perpendicular to its side edges and has no irregularities. 6. Rewind any excess paper so that the paper is rolled tightly onto the spindle. 7. Insert the leading edge of the paper into the lower slot in the rear of the printer. Push the paper in until it encounters resistance, keeping the sides of the paper rolled tightly so that the paper is aligned properly. After emitting a ‘beep’, the printer will take up the paper. The printer will check the alignment of the paper.If the paper is properly aligned, the roll icon will appear on the display, indicating that the printer is ready to print. If the paper is misaligned, the printer will eject the paper and the display will show the misaligned and roll icons; you will have to reload the paper. 8. Repeat Step 6, so that the paper is tightly rolled onto the spindle. Sheet paper Roll paper

	Re: Hp designjet 130 by Dave Graham (1/29/09 10:11 AM) reply	+ / -
With regard to the above comments I have to say that I have reloaded the paper until I am blue in the face - I cannot believe that the position sensors require sub mm accuracy and I have done this enough times to surely have got it right at least once just by chance. where is the roll feed sensor? how does it check alignment for goodness? Why are there so many people reporting this as a problem with this printer?. Everything else works fine - it prints properly on single sheets from the front and I'm putting it in the right slot on the back - this is the first time I have roundly cursed HP! Thanks for any help anyone provides Dave

	Hp designjet 130 print head nozzle by DDdesigner (2/2/09 11:53 AM) reply	+ / -
I have used this printer for a few years and had to store it for a year (wrapped up under a bed). When I set it up for use again, the first print head nozzle (yellow) was giving me a flashing error message. I replaced it only to get the same results. I tried cleaning the head contacts and tapping on the head and sometimes got the error to stop flashing and made it able it to print (not every time). When it did print, it printed just fine. Now though, it is giving me a constant flashing error, and no efforts seem to fix the print head nozzle error. Any advice?

	Re: Hp designjet 130 by Dave Coleman (11/20/09 10:22 AM) reply	+ / -
Where can I find samples of the print head alignment sheet showing successful/unsuccessful alignment?

	Re: Hp designjet 130nr by Petra Kapitza (12/16/09 5:24 AM) reply	+ / -
Hi, I have a HP Designjet 130nr and have a problem with printing yellow. Sometimes it's working but often the colour yellow stops printing half way through when I'm printing a large scale print. I've replaced the ink cartridge and the print head but this hasn't solved the problem. Any ideas what else I could try? Anyone else experiencing the same problem? Petra

	Re: Hp designjet 130 by Scytex (12/16/09 4:43 PM) reply	+ / -
I am finding that leaving these plotters without printing once in awhile will cause the ink in the ink tubes to harden and you will get printhead errors and other ink related problems. as for that piss poor roll feed I have seen the same problem the rest of you are having-roll not recognized.The service manual is not much help. I just was asked to service another of these that had been sitting for six months-after the customer bought all new inks and printheads I found the ink tubes were indeed dry and ink was not moving in the tubes. customer did not want to pay for a new tube assembly and purchased a different machine. Please let me know if I am doing something wrong here. any service tips for these failing plotters/printers would help reduce landfill.

	Re: Hp designjet 130 by nivek (12/17/09 9:47 PM) reply	+ / -
I would only say why would the customer spend all that money on cartridges and printheads and not buy the tube assembly. They arent that expensive and easy to replace. I guess the only thing I would advice is to purge it like the 500 and 1050 series before you replace to see if that clears it up. I've done a few both ways. Purging and replacing.

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