Digital BW, The Print

The best thing I have found to put in the track under the heads to clean
them is a sponge cloth sold for washing dishes. It is standard sponge
material but made about 1/8" thick. I cut it into strips, wet it with Windex
or rubbing alcohol, lay it in the printer and manually move the head back
and forth as Antonis describes below. The strips are long enough you can
grab each end and pull the sponge gently up and then back and forth under
the head. Lint free. I have only had to try this trick once and that was
with the original Piezo inks in a 1200.

Martin Wesley

http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html



----- Original Message -----
From: "antonisphoto" <antonisphoto@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 4:27 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: 1160 black ink (mis) clog


> Frank,
>
> use something as lintless as possible - I don't know about using a
T-shirt.
> High quality kitchen towels or lintless darkroom cloths would be better.
>
> There is a lot of info on this in the tech sup area of inkjetmall.com.
>
> Basically, you free up the head by moving the white wheel away from you,
> raise the head with the + lever, bring it over the towel that has been
soaked in
> Fantastik and laid in the black groove, lower the lever, slide the head
left-right,
> raise again and park it to the right.
>
> You will need a few cleaning cycles after that.
>
> If all else fails, take a pipe cleaner (as in smoking pipe, not plumbing),
soak it
> in Fantastic and pass it under the head so you can reach it at the other
end.
> Move it back-n-forth under the head, remove, rinse, and repeat.
>
> Not a lot of fun... but eventually it all works out.
>
> Antonis
>
>
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "frankg_photo" <frank@f...>
wrote:
>
> > Now I'm thinking to try the t-shirt with windex under the head trick -
> > anyone care to go over this with me ?
> > thanks
> > Frank
>
>
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