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Bugger,
If I wasn't a whole day of driving to get to Melbourne
I would grab the other one.
> beefyzee / Keith wrote:
> <SNIP>
> The guy has two of them and said he'll sell them
> for $40 each. I might see if he'll do the two for $60.
---In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, <satdaveuk@...> wrote:Hi
It depends what your paying for it, I personally wouldn't give anything for it, just tell them your willing to take it off there hands to save them dumping it.
In general Non working printers are not worth a toss,In fact even working ones unless there top end of the market and only a few months old don't get much if anything.
However to you If it is a no go then grab the motors gearing etc out of it and bin the rest.
I got two here you can have free, if you want one or both and can collect your welcome
One is the old reliable Epson C62 which I had plans to convert for direct printing to PCB but never found the time to do, It only ever needed ink which for that model is cheap as chips and the other is a newer model HP, cant remember the model its in the spare bedroom.
Hope my sound advise is heeded lol
Regards
Dave
BS-TECH- UKOn Sunday, 24 November 2013, 7:35, Russell Shaw <rjshaw@...> wrote:On 24/11/13 08:33, beefyzee@... wrote:
>
> I've got a chance at an old Epson Stylus Color 3000 (not the R3000). This is a
> big A2 printer.
>
> I've been told the print heads are blocked. The printer has been in storage for
> some time. It's cheap but I'm also wondering if I'll end up chucking the printer
> in the bin.
>
> I've been hearing hear and there these are a good printer for photo positives,
> but I don't know if that is with $500 RIP software. I'll just be running it with
> the standard Windows driver.
The ink is not solvent ink, so there's a chance of unblocking by pulling out the
head (not too hard with some practice, but a teaser at first, maybe see
something on utube), and wiping the head surface with paper towel soaked with a
suitable cleaner (i use nifty, but a window cleaner chemical would be good too).
<http://www.hillsgroup.net.au/CatalogueRetrieve.aspx?CatalogueID=99748&ProductID=5533742>
Putting in an old cartridge filled with the cleaner and doing lots of head-clean
cycles can work too.
If all else fails, you can soak the head in a cheap ultrasonic cleaner. I've
done that on my 10+ year old epson stylus 400. Make sure it's properly dried
before testing in the printer.
If you're in the melbourne area, i'll consider taking it if you want to bin it.