Digital BW, The Print

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:44 PM, David Kachel <david@...> wrote:

> Thanks for responding Pete.
> To be more clear. The printer worked fine will all B&W inks when I used it
> last year, so, no the vent hole isn't blocked.
>
> OK, good. Some recommendations for storage include closing the vent hole.
I've kept my vent plugs for this reason.


> I have run at least 5 cleaning cycles, swabbed the nipples, paper toweled
> the print head. Everything but the previously mentioned fire hose and
> gasoline.
>
>
What do the nozzle checks look like? Totally missing black? One other
assumption to check is that the cartridge is reporting that it's got ink in
it. Embarassingly, I've gone through a lot of cleaning cycles with an
auto-resettable cartridge that was reporting itself as empty. When I
recently bought a new set of cartridges, I chose to get a resetter and
manually reset each cartridge as I filled it. It's perhaps a bit more work,
but my results are more predictable.

When I get clogs, I'll usually run 2-3 cleaning/nozzle check cycles (these
are initiated from the computer's Epson utility), then leave it overnight.
Then I'll do a couple more cycles and things are generally back to working.
Sometimes I have to pull cartridges out and force a deeper cleaning cycle
(this is automatically started by the printer when some threshold of
cartridge change is detected - it's hard to predict).

Hope some of this helps you,
Pete


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