With summer finally arriving, hopefully you'll be planning a day or two off work to enjoy the best of the weather. Whether you're only closing for one day or you're making the most of it and taking a good week off we want you to be safe in the knowledge that your Roland printer will be perfectly fine without you.

 The beauty of the Roland printer is that it pretty much looks after itself, that said there are a couple actions you can to take to ensure you'll be back up printing straight away on your return.

1)Ensure your cartridges have some ink to use to run through. As long as there is enough ink in the printer it will clean itself and circulate the ink to keep it happy and healthy.

2) There is no need to flush your printer. 

3) Keep your Roland plugged in, with the switch on the back turned on. This will enable it to run it's built in maintenance clean while you're off enjoying your holidays.

4) Check and empty the drain bottle before you leave to avoid any nasty spills and surprises.

5) If you're using white and metallic, the very last thing you need to do before you walk out that door is tell the printer that they've been shaken. To do this, whilst the printer is turned on, take out the white/metallic cartridges, tip them end to end a couple of times before putting them back in. This will essentially re-set the clock on the printer until you need to shake them again.

6) If you are using a VersaUV printer (LEF-12, LEF-20, LEJ-640), please be aware that certain environment conditions need to be maintained for your printer to be able to perform the cleans. You will need to ensure that your work environment stays ideally between 20-25 degrees at all times in your absence, (it should never exceed 30 degrees) this will enable the printer to perform cleans in "power off" mode.

7) Check your ink stocks to make sure it doesn't run dry while you're away. It won't need much but if in doubt give us a call.

Hopefully this helps but should you have any concerns at all please feel free to give us a call on +44(0)1420 511539.