Digital BW, The Print

Richard,

If subsequent cleaning cycles worsen the problem then you are sucking air.
Let it sit overnight and do not do more than two cleans per cycle. I found
with all cartridges that they should be stored upright for at least 24 hours
before inserting into the printer. This allows any air in the ink reservoir
to migrate to the top of the cartridge.

Steve Chambers
  -----Original Message-----
  From: rich8155 [mailto:richard@...]
  Sent: 30 May 2002 07:27
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [Digital BW] 1160...clog or air bubble?


  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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