Navigating the ET 15000 Printer: A Comprehensive Guide on Priming Dampers

Understanding the Importance of Priming Your Damper Whether you're dealing with a clog, mistakenly filled the ET 15000 with the wrong ink, or you simply want to switch inks, it's essential to prime your damper effectively. This process involves drawing ink into the damper, ensuring smooth and efficient printing. This guide will walk you through each step, ensuring you have a hassle-free experience.

Accessing the Internal Dampers of the ET 15000 Before diving into the main procedure, it’s crucial to access the dampers situated inside the printer's carriage. Here’s how you do it:

1. Positioning the Carriage: First, power off your printer. Move the carriage to a central location for easy accessibility.
2. Opening the Scanner: Twist the blue scanner support and elevate the scanner. This allows you to access the white protective piece that covers the carriage.
3. Removing the Protective White Piece: On this plastic piece, you'll identify about seven screws. Unscrewing these will give you a clear path to the carriage.
4. Ensuring Proper Scanner Support Placement: As you remove the white piece, ensure the scanner support is correctly positioned. There’s a specific hole on its left where the scanner support should fit.

Delving Deeper: Accessing the Dampers Now that you have access to the internal carriage, it's time to get up close with the dampers:

1. Working with Ink Tubes and Dampers: Locate the spring on the right side of the printer. If you're struggling to remove it, shift the blue lever on the opposite side towards you. This action should release the spring effortlessly.
2. Damper Cover Removal: To get to the damper cover, first remove the blue scanner support. This move grants enough space to use a drill and remove the tiny screw keeping the damper cover in place. Once unscrewed, gently pull the cover to the right, releasing it from the prong that secures it on the left.
3. Unveiling the Dampers: Beneath, you'll find the dampers flanked by two regular screws on each side of the colored ink tubes. Removing these screws grants better access to the dampers.

Drawing Ink into the Dampers With your dampers now exposed, you can proceed with the priming:

1. Preparing the Dampers: Begin by opening the plastic tube guard, lifting the dampers slightly. Note: there's no need to detach the dampers entirely from the tubes.
2. Ink Transfer Process: Using a syringe, draw ink from the ink tank, ensuring a steady flow through the tubes into the dampers. If you observe reduced ink in any damper, like the yellow one, ensure to draw the appropriate colored ink, in this case, the yellow sublimation ink.
3. Dealing with Resistance: If you feel any hindrance while drawing the ink, it might be due to a closed ink tank cover. Opening these covers should simplify the ink flow.

Reassembling Your Printer Post-Priming After ensuring each damper is adequately primed, start the reassembly:

1. Securing the Dampers: Properly position the dampers, ensuring they click into their holders. Replace the screws on both sides of the colored tubes to firmly secure them.
2. Reattaching the Damper Cover: Slide the cover’s prong to the left side and ensure the tab on its right side snaps in place.
3. Final Touches: Reintroduce the scanner support system, use two hands for optimal positioning, and return the plastic tube guide to its original position. Finish by screwing the protective white piece back in place.

For a more visual representation of this process, there's a detailed video below showing every step in real-time, ensuring you get it right.

Happy printing! May your prints always be as vibrant and flawless as you envision. 

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