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Thanks for that Steve,
I never realised about a built in bulk ink system, I'd better look at the manual to learn more.
Well there may be a little catch after all. I just got an offer of $60 for the two printers accepted BUT there might not be any cartridges in them. The guy is going to check when he gets home. Now to see if empty cartridges are available for these printers and at what cost. I'm hoping I can get one working printer out of the two, but of course two working printers would be great LOL.
I pretty much just want to fill every cartridge with black photo postive super opaque ink so I've got the ultimate printing machine for positives. Bit of an overkill as far as the physical size goes but getting that super opaque photo positive is the holy grail of the UV method.
Keith.
---In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, <alienrelics@...> wrote:Realigning Epson heads requires a bit of factory-only software (possibly available online, let's not talk about that here) and is a real pain.
I have rescued a -lot- of Epson printers. The only time I removed the heads for cleaning, it was a nightmare.
I don't buy any fancy cleaning things, I don't use a syringe to force liquid through the heads (bad news!). I wrote this up:
http://www.polyphoto.com/tutorials/PrintHeadCleaning/EpsonCleaning.html
The Epson 3000 is still going for a lot of money because of the dense ink, the built-in bulk ink system, and because it can print on 17x22 paper or 17 inch wide rolls.
I just cleaned one up that had badly clogged heads, had sat for years. I filled halfway empty cartridges with the cleaning solution as described on the link above, then follow those instructions. The most important part is patience.
Steve Greenfield AE7HD--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, <beefyzee@...> wrote:
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> Thanks Dave,
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> I agree about non-functional inkjets being just about a throw out item. Thing with this particular model of printer is it seems to get good reports for it's ability to print high density, which is what I want for single sheet photo positives. Just read on a forum yesterday that these old "workhorse" printers print more densly than their newer successors. So I'm mainly wondering if anyone here has had the actual experience too.
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> 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.
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> Refurbished models of these seem to be about the $700+ mark, and just general working ones about $250-$300. They still seem to be in demand by people doing silkscreening and photo positive stuff.
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> Keith.
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