Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "jimhayes361" 
<jimhayes@j...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "wilfred71118" 
> <wilfredm@b...> wrote:
> > In the past I recall reading much about nozzle clogs. I should 
have 
> > payed more attention. I think I have my first clog. When I print 
a 
> > nozzle check the cyan bars have missing lines. I have run the 
color 
> > cleaning utility about 5 times. It still has missing bars. It is 
an 
> > Epson 3000 and refilled MIS ink. What is the best approach to 
> fixing.
> 
> I don't own an 3000 so I guess all the rules may not apply that I 
> learned. So that's a bit of a disclaimer. But a couple things off 
the 
> bat.
> 
> Don't do more than two or three cleanings in a row! It will only 
get 
> worse, and you will lose ink, and possibly flood the pads and get 
> excess ink splattered around. I do at most two these days on my 
1280. 
> Then I put a few drops of Fantastik, 40:60 ethanol to water, 
Windex, 
> etc to what I think are two (in 3000), not one pad as in the 1160 
and 
> 1280 on the right hand  side. This procedure is very common and 
> documented all over, search Cone's site for example, or the posts 
> here. You send the head to the left and put three-5 drops or so on 
the 
> pad, then send printer back and turn off for six hours minimum. 
There 
> are tricks beyond these, but this first one has a high sucess rate.
> 
> Educate yourself as to what tricks work for what symptoms. For 
example 
> the towel under the head trick works best for ink blobs and lines 
that 
> jump up or down in nozzle pattern. Learn to recognise a clog from a 
> possible air bubble. Air bubbles tend to generate more gaps as you 
do 
> cleanings and the missing lines tend to trade around. Real clogs 
tend 
> to be the same line in the pattern not printing out over and over. 
> Your 3000 should be less prone to clogs because the nozzles are 
bigger 
> than more recent printers.
> 
> You mention a "refilled" MIS cart. I have never used a refilled 
cart 
> on any of my printers, just never got around to it. I just fill 
virgin 
> carts. I don't know if that could be a problem. You don't state 
> whether you just installed it or not. So I cannot help there.
> Jim H.


> Thanks for the info, I did the windex thing on the parking pads. 
Left it overnight. This morining it still has the missing space. The 
missing space is always in the same place but sometimes that missing 
space is a little wider and messed up than the previous test. The 
first run was with the original Epson carts. When they ran out I 
filled virgin carts with MIS ink and these carts should be 3/4 or so 
full. . The bar that is broken up is the cyan bar. I guess that means 
the cyan nozzle. I have printed a purge chart for cyan. I am a little 
puzzled though. The color of the printout of the cyan purge is 
purple. I thought that the printer would only try and print from the 
cyan cart if the image on the monitor was cyan. I seemes that magenta 
is being added because of the obvious purple color not cyan.