Digital BW, The Print

From: Paul 
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 11:01 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
Subject: [Digital BW] bad nozzle check with cleaning cartridges in R1800

  
My setup is an Epson R1800, with MIS Eboni ink in the two black positions and the glop position. The five color positions contain MIS Nozzle Cleaning Fluid with just a ml or two of black so the results in the nozzle check can be viewed.

This setup has been trouble free for several years. I run a nozzle check every few days to keep things humming - once in a while I'd get a bad nozzle pattern but just a head cleaning or two would clear it up right away.

Lately however the nozzle check pattern for the five cleaning fluid carts are almost blank... while the patterns for the three Eboni ink carts are fine. In fact I can still make the same quality print I'm used to. I just don't like the idea of the color nozzles being clogged in case I want to revert to color printing some day.

I've tried putting cleaning fluid (a 50-50 mix of ammoniated Windex and isopropyl alcohol, per Art Entlich's manual) on the parking pad and letting it sit over night, I've tried a gentle "shoeshine" technique, ie cleaning under the head with the cleaning solution soaked paper towel. I've tried some purge printing as well. I've been performing these techniques every day for the past several days with no luck. (Maybe I should use the MIS Cleaning Fluid with these techniques.)

I tried to remember to run the head cleaning routine no more than three times. I read later you're supposed to make a print after every three cleanings so's not to damage the printer, but I don't recall doing that... hope I didn't do any damage. But if there were damage I wouldn't get a good pattern from the black carts, right?

(I've posted this question over in the Yahoo Epson group a few days ago. I suspect many of us visit both groups so if you've seen this post before, my apologies. I just thought there might some people who visit only this group.)

This one really has me baffled! 

Paul





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> Use Armorall Auto Glass Cleaner â€" has worked great now for over a year of usage.
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> From: Paul 
> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 11:01 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
> Subject: [Digital BW] bad nozzle check with cleaning cartridges in R1800
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> My setup is an Epson R1800, with MIS Eboni ink in the two black positions and the glop position. The five color positions contain MIS Nozzle Cleaning Fluid with just a ml or two of black so the results in the nozzle check can be viewed.
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> This setup has been trouble free for several years. I run a nozzle check every few days to keep things humming - once in a while I'd get a bad nozzle pattern but just a head cleaning or two would clear it up right away.
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> Lately however the nozzle check pattern for the five cleaning fluid carts are almost blank... while the patterns for the three Eboni ink carts are fine. In fact I can still make the same quality print I'm used to. I just don't like the idea of the color nozzles being clogged in case I want to revert to color printing some day.
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> I've tried putting cleaning fluid (a 50-50 mix of ammoniated Windex and isopropyl alcohol, per Art Entlich's manual) on the parking pad and letting it sit over night, I've tried a gentle "shoeshine" technique, ie cleaning under the head with the cleaning solution soaked paper towel. I've tried some purge printing as well. I've been performing these techniques every day for the past several days with no luck. (Maybe I should use the MIS Cleaning Fluid with these techniques.)
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> I tried to remember to run the head cleaning routine no more than three times. I read later you're supposed to make a print after every three cleanings so's not to damage the printer, but I don't recall doing that... hope I didn't do any damage. But if there were damage I wouldn't get a good pattern from the black carts, right?
> 
> (I've posted this question over in the Yahoo Epson group a few days ago. I suspect many of us visit both groups so if you've seen this post before, my apologies. I just thought there might some people who visit only this group.)
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> This one really has me baffled! 
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> Paul
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