Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "wilfred71118" 
<wilfredm@b...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "jimhayes361" 
> <jimhayes@j...> wrote:

> > 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.

Yeah, a clog I'd bet. What is the humidity in the room and how often 
do you run the printer? I find that if I keep humidity at about 40%RH 
 and I turn the printer on once a day at least and print a quick draft 
MIS purge print at 360 dpi, my 1280 stays healthy.

 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.

Yes, that is the next thing after the parking pad trick I would 
try...running just the color that is clogged purge- MIS of course has 
these files. It sounds like you're running MIS color ink, in that case 
you might be running dye instead of pigment ink. Dye ink on a 
3000...shouldn't really clog. I forget if MIS has  a color pig(?).


 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.

Surprise! Yep, that's right. Print the six color purge page from MIS, 
and usually, well sometimes anyway, it's mixing colors a bit on each 
stripe. It depends a lot on driver settings and the color MIS 
originally put in the file, I don't know, I'm not an expert in color 
matching.

I learned this when I had one nozzle go completely out in the middle 
of a purge print, yet another ink was printing faintly in it's place!

If you have the problem I think you do, and I'm working from 
incomplete info, if you can't get the nozzle back from printing a full 
 one color purge print or two, the next thing do do is put a NEW set 
of Epson carts in, or, since I know they're expensive on an 3000, if 
you can get the old Epson carts back in and working (problematic on an 
1160), then run a six color purge, maybe one cyan purge, repeat a 
couple- to a few times. Then let the thing rest over night. Then 
repeat. After two or three days, that Epson ink will be really going 
through there. Many people have had sucess clearing clogs this way- 
including me. The OEM ink seems to act as a solvent of sorts.


I'm also starting to think the towel under the head/ windex trick 
might be in order since we're starting to run out of simple things to 
try. Worth a shot before you spend more $$ on carts. I wouldn't have 
thought it as a first thing to try, though.
If all this doesn't work, you get more radical.
Hope that gets you going.
Jim H.