Digital BW, The Print

Bernd,

Did you perform a "init fill" from the service mode of the 7000?  
Most clogs on the 7000 are associated with air getting into the 
lines. Although the dampers are supposed to take care of this 
they do not always do so.

To get to the service mode turn off the printer. While holding the 
bottom three buttons turn on the printer. the printer will read 
Check:. Next press the item button until you see 
Check:Cleaning. Press enter and then cycle through the options, 
KK0, KK1, KK2, Init Fill. Press enter on the Init Fill option and 
your printer will begin to fill the heads and dampers with ink 
without purging the old ink. 

This procedure will clear 99% of the clogs people experience. 
The other 1% requires Epson technical service.

Mike 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "ruhrfoto" <
ruhrfoto@y...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Martin Wesley" 
> <mwesley250@e...> wrote:
> > Bernd,
> > I am very sorry to hear about your problems with the 7500 
and 
> also
> > surprised. I think this is the first report of a major clog failure 
> with the
> > MIS-FS. If anyone else has had similar experiences with 
> MIS-FS please let us
> > know.
> > 
> > Martin Wesley
> > http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html
> 
> Martin,
> as I reported before, 
> I have never had any SERIOUS clogging problems,
>  neither with Piezo carts on my 3000, nor with CIS (MIS FS or 
MIS 
> VM) on my smaller desktop printers.  My MAJOR clogging 
> problem on my 7500 (which is a dedicated PIGMENT-printer) 
> appeared one week and a lot of prints after having switched 
from 
> MIS VM to MIS FS in order to use the IP4 RIP on the LF printer. I 
> purged the printer with aqua des before switching, and during 
> one week everything seemed to be  just fine, until ... yes, until 
> this cloggs from hell appeared. 
> I use custom filled/refilled carts I shoud admit. Maybe 
something 
> was wrong with my filling method. I ´m not sure that I should 
> blame the ink (just to be fair).
> Best 
> Bernd