Digital BW, The Print

I get microbanding on an 1160 that has only done about 100 prints.  One day I see microbands, the next it prints fine.  It is intermittent and I cannot find a solution other than try again another day, which isn't ideal.  I hope the heads are not about to die as it is a relatively new printer.

Simon
  Robert Morrison wrote:

  The print head is on its way out...make sure you have its replacement ready.
  What epson would do is a 9:1 distilled water/clear household ammnoia flush
  with a tygon tube connected to the inkjet inlet.  Put a couple of ml through
  each jet...with gentle syringe pressure.

  I just had two 1160's die this way in the last couple of weeks...these
  desktop machines are disposable printers...the flush didn't help...but
  perhaps they were already too far gone.  Both printers had done several
  thousand prints.

  Robert

  On 5/28/02 9:36 AM, "Julian Thomas" <julianthomas@...> wrote:

  > OK, matte and gloss papers, output dpi of 526 (tried changing this) , great
  > head checks, and I'm getting visible microbanding ona number of files. Done
  > the windex trick. Any ideas - or is it one of those where i switch off and
  > wait?? I've had this before but changing the dpi (thanks Nij) helped


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