it 12 years old and I replaced the belt 6 years ago, but I don't think it's the belt.
Started to print.. got 10% of the drawing out and it just quit. All three yellow lights (cartridges, date & Media) are lit up.
Print head ended up way over in the spitoon area.
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That sounds like a problem with the trailing cable, maybe a bad connection or a broken wire inside. Do you have the PDF copy of the HP 450 manual to work with?
> That sounds like a problem with the trailing cable, maybe a bad connection or a broken wire inside. Do you have the PDF copy of the HP 450 manual to work with?
I don't think it's the cable. When I turn the power on, everything seems normal at first. The green lights cycle back and forth, the motor starts up, the print head goes back and forth, etc. The after about a minute, the three orange lights come on and everything stops.
If anyone has a link to the manual, I would appreciate it.
Your instruction manual will tell you what the light pattern means. I had somthing similar on my 350C and it was the color cartridges all needed to be replaced, works fine now.
T.W.
Perry-
You can find the service manual here:
http://tkkrlab.nl/w/images/6/65/DESIGNJET_430,_450C,_455CA_Service_Manual.pdf
There is a section explaining the error codes.
Jeff
Mine flips out on occasion...try hitting the "cancel" button.
Rick
Thanks for the manual Jeff !
got it!
Working again. Thanks Jeff
The manual said to press CANCEL to get the error code. This pointed to a sticky carriage rod. I put a little light oil on the rod and wiped it clean and it just made a print.
You're welcome!
That was easy! Wait until you get to replace the belt...
You're welcome!
> That was easy! Wait until you get to replace the belt...
I replaced it 6 years ago. it took a while but I don;t recall it being too bad. Probably about time for another.
Sounds so familiar.. Mine recently started shredding the belt little by little so I tried to baby it along as long as I could but it eventually shed the belt in one last truck tire-like piece and held up one of the more important jobs I've had to plot in a long while. Luckily I had a number for a service guy fast and cheap because the workload didn't have a hole of even 15 minutes for me to try replacing it personally.
I was really worried that getting a belt was going to be tougher than it was. Less than 24 hours later it was rolling out prints beautifully as it ever has.
yeah, I got a feeling by the sounds of the plotter, I should be ordering a new belt soon.
Heh, I had totally forgotten that horrible sound it started making as it was leading up to it's catastrophic end. If you oiled the bar though I think thats all you can really do until it's finally time in your opinion to just replace the belt altogether. Thats probably the best thing you can do as far as preventative maintenance goes. A little oil goes a long way.
