Digital BW, The Print

You may have dried out, hardened ink in your CIS lines. Try removing the
CIS cartridge and putting in a regular cartridge, or a cartridge of
cleaning solution. The problem may not be the print head at all.

If you get the head clear, you can replace the CIS tubes, or remove them
from both ends and clean them, but that's not easy.

Richard Wolfson

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bmercertx [mailto:BMercerTX@...] 
> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 5:32 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Blank nozzle checks
> 
> 
> I had a clog in my 1160 that I could not clear but had to close the 
> printer down for 2 months.  I'm using the old piezo inks with CIS.  
> Now I'm back to work and can't get any pattern in the black position 
> or in the cyan position when I do a nozzle check. The strange thing 
> is I can see some air spaces in the ink line to the black cartridge. 
> How would I clear that out?  Do not know how that happened. Since I 
> can't get even one mark when I do the nozzle check, do I REALLY have 
> a print head problem?  
> 
> Have any of you had to replace print heads?  What did it cost? 
> 
> I bought this set-up from someone else and I have gotten some nice 
> prints from it. I'd like to get it back up and running.
> 
> Billie