Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "iwasnvrhere" 
<iwasnvrhere@y...> wrote:
>     Yes, the last two are last ditch methods before you take the 
> printer to the repair shop. It's a question of how much time your 
> willing to spend reaching a conlusion for the pr As far as head 
> cleanings go I would run as least ten- if no ink is coming out then 
> your not losing any. Epson help techs will tell you to run a many as 
> five just to prime the head with oem carts and I've never seen any 
> warnings about max head cleanings.


Well, just that in my experience, two things happen after two, maybe 
three head cleanings without a perfect nozzle check: 1) More nozzles 
dissapear than after the first cleanings IF the problem is really air 
bubbles, not a clog. So it doesn't buy you anything, the air is still 
trapped and won't dissapate with further cleanings. 2) If you look 
around the parking pad and to the right of it, the felt wiper pad, ink 
will build up VERy fast after second head clean. You therefore may 
have ink being flung all over the right corner (the felt wiper is a 
miniture catipult), or worse, ink buildup on parking pad (it doesn't 
all get sucked down) or ink globbing on bottom of printhead which then 
gets tracked into bed of printer worst case, i.e on rollers, etc.

I have seen warnings against doing more than, variously 3 or 4 
cleanings on MIS and Cone sites. The original instructions that came 
with my CIS/ink kit from Cone I remember way back in October 2000 
warned against this, if I recall. Epson tech has also told me not to 
do more than 3 cleanings or so. And you will find posts by others on 
clog issues in this forum that unless I miss my guess advise the same 
max number. 

However, I will respect your viewpoint and just say that I am puzzled 
by the advice, hesitating to negate it, but suggesting that you give 
me a URL for example to a website that supports your view.
Jim H.