Digital BW, The Print

Hello

Some time ago I was given a dried up Epson 800. With nothing to lose I
removed the heads and after soaking them in a 5mm deep pool of Isopropyl
alcohol for a few hours, put them in an ultrasonic cleaning bath (I use it
for mapping pens and lend it to friends for jewellery :-))

I also used a small syringe and some tubing to force alcohol through the
jets

After a few minutes of zapping in the bath, they were dried and put back in
the printer - and worked fine (and continue to do so)

Was I lucky that they still worked?
How robust are the heads?

There were no alignment problems afterwards, they seemed to fit back in very
positively.

bye for now   

Keith Cooper