Digital BW, The Print

Hmmm. We had two C88s at one time in the house  for general office printing
and both within maybe two weeks (and about 2 months after the warranty
expired) lost all suction at the capping station (which I tested for). This
means that ink won't get pulled through on a cleaning cycle but that sticky
old ink will get dragged across the nozzles by the wiper - thoroughly
clogging them. On the first on that died, I could see that the pump suction
line (a little white tube) had disconnected. After looking at how difficult
it was to get to without breaking everything else, I chucked it in the trash
can. When the second one died with the exact same symptoms I didn't even
bother checking it out. The C88 was (or can be) a POS. 
 
My advice: For the effort to fix it and your headaches vs. the price of the
printer - into the trash. Or probably better, electronic recycling. 
 
Best,
 
Tom
 
  
Tom,

It was over a period of maybe 30 minutes.

Thanks,

Richard

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com> , "Tom Mallonee"
<tom@...> wrote:
>
> 
> Richard,
> 
> Did all nozzles stop squirting ink all at once and suddenly or was it over
a
> period of time (even minutes)? 
> 
> Tom Mallonee
> www.ovimaging.com
> 
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I've got a C88+ printer that after many years has decided to stop
squirting
> any ink. I've tried cleaning cycles, Windex on paper towels under the
heads,
> directly injecting into the inlet spike, swapping in genuine Epson color
> carts, and loading carts with Inkjetcarts.us cleaning fluid. All without
any
> luck. No evidence of any nozzles firing. 
> 
> Is there anything else I can try or is time to kiss it goodbye and bury it
> in the backyard?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Richard Cooke
> Lake Forest, CA USA
> 
> 
> 
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