I am printing on a tarpaulin using HP designjet 5500PS but the ink bleeds, how to remove bleeding?

i am printing on a tarpaulin using HP designjet 5500PS but it bleeds resulting to a mess of canvass. i changed the dye ink (#81) to UV ink (#83) and tried again, but it keeps on bleeding..how will i solve the problem? in the menu setting, what appropriate printing media will i choose? manuals are missing so i tried printing by trial and error and the roll of tarpaulin and inks are being wasted. please help. thanks..I am printing on a tarpaulin using HP designjet 5500PS but the ink bleeds, how to remove bleeding?
Had you thought about contacting HP support to find out if the machine CAN print on that surface without bleeding.





Tarpaulin is a plastic woven material, with much coarser weave than paper, so ink WILL bleed into it, unless you use specific inks.





CONTACT HP SUPPORT !!!I am printing on a tarpaulin using HP designjet 5500PS but the ink bleeds, how to remove bleeding?
Open the door where you insert the carts for color in. Take out each one and inspect them. If you got the model where the print heads are in a different conpartment take those out and look for smearing. If you just have the heads and carts for color are one in the same. Then look at the heads and see if you see smearing. It you do?





Take a lint free rag or news paper not a paper towel like Bounty and wipe the heads with cold water just a damp wipe.





Now where the carts/heads rest in the printer it should be a spong or foam. This needs to be wiped also with cold water until it's clean. This is very missy job to do os if you got medical gloves then use them other wise, you've been warned.





Once you done this, then insert the carts back in. Let the printer do a series of test. If you can do a countious printer test where it would print several sheets to clean out anything left over ink that you might have missed.





If it still does it, and you have replaced all the carts. Then have the device serviced or replaced.