Digital BW, The Print

> > Well, guys, I am beginning to think after all this deliberation and
> > the help of Dana at Inkjetmall's techsupport that I have misfiring
> > nozzles that over spray or spray the wrong directions.  Again - where
> > should I take this printer to get it's printhead worked on?

Only one comment: Make sure wherever you take it has the Epson tech
manual AND more important, the alignment software for the head.
Described in the manual, this is on two floppy discs(!) running on
Win98 only(!) through paralel port only(!). Could have been updated
since my manual ver though. It burns the EPROMS in the printer to
accept the new voltage ID of the new head (if replaced) garnered from
a number inscribed on every 1160 replacement head and input into the
program. Then it goes off and does an angular alignment and a
bi-directional alignment and I forget what all else. It can reset the
ink cleaning counter (yes, AFAIK the printer is programed to disable
itself after a certain very large number of cleaning cycles have been
recorded) and even return a value burned into printer memory for where
printer was originally destined to be shipped to (region of world?).

Mention some of the above blather to your prospective tech service
center, and if they don't know what you're talking about, they aren't
blessed or whatever it is that Epson does to service centers to make
them official. For there are many places that say they fix Epsons;
most aren't Epson approved. Or have the software.
Jim Hayes