Hello all, I just got my replacement 1160 from Epson after my first one just died upon start-up. This time the Epson inks installed and "charged" properly. I printed a letter-sized color print on Epson Heavyweight Matte, and then an A3+ color print out on EAM. Both looked very nice. However, I thought maybe I saw a flaw on one and as a precaustion decided to print a nozzle test page. After doing so I saw that one of the black areas had a gap. So I ran a head cleaning cycle and printed the nozzle check again---gap still there. One more cleaing cycle, print the nozzle check once more and now only the black nozzle patterns printed, no color nozzle patterns at all (!?), so I tried to print again a nozzle check pattern---this time a blank sheet of paper, nothing printed at all! Try again, same---blank sheet! Head cleaning cycle, try again, blank sheet! Try to print a letter from MS Word, blank sheet. Re-start printer, same thing. Re- start computer and printer-again same. So, now I'm left with all blank sheets printing. What the.....?! I searched the archives here and it seems I either have a clog (of ALL heads?) or air bubbles. Is my assumption right? Anyway, I went ahead and just dropped some Windex on the felt pads, pushed the heads back to their proepr place and am waiting overnight. Hopefully either the heads will unclog or the air bubbles will work themselves out. Any other suggestions or ideas here? Thanks (again). Regards, Richard
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1160...clog or air bubble?
2002-05-30 by rich8155
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