Digital BW, The Print

Richard,

the carts may not have seated properly? Did you lift and reseat the carts 
(allowing a bubble)? Could the carts be old and dry - or their seal broken 
before you installed?..... Should you try a fresh set of carts?........


 Since you are doing this with Epson OEM inks and printing in color, you 
should probably direct your question to groups that deal with Epson issues 
and color printing. We mostly deal with CIS and bw here (a whole other can of 
worms!).


Antonis



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "rich8155" <richard@c...> wrote:
> 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