Digital BW, The Print

Here in the US I called three "service centers" within 20 miles of me 
and asked them detailed questions about how they replace an 1160 head. 
I mentioned the two floppy disk software that Epson gives out to their 
official techs that runs only in Win98 over the LPT port that does 
three alignments or so- a "bidirectional" alignment, an "angular" 
alignment, and I think there may be one other...two made excuses 
saying they were either not familar with the software or it "really 
wasn't needed". The third service center it turned out was the only 
one officialy authorized by Epson to repair printheads, and knew right 
away what software I spoke of- and that they used it when 
reparing/replacing heads.

Most of this I got from reading the shop manual for the 860 printer. 
There is a good section of the manual devoted to use of this software, 
and the splash screen pic clearly shows it is to be used with 1160 as 
well.
Jim H.




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Julian Thomas" 
<julianthomas@t...> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm arguing with the service centre who 'cleaned' my 1160 head 
instead of
> replacing it (basically they don't like being caught out). Its 
getting
> perfect nozzle checks but banding. They wanted to see proof of the 
problem.
> So I printed a purge pattern through the piezo driver with OEM inks 
in place
> and it shows banding on the last 25% of the test across all four 
colours
> (where they fadeout - I guess B/W midtone area). Is this a genuine 
test or
> am I missing something?
> 
> Julian
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