Digital BW, The Print

well this one I got off the Epson site. They know the software, but their
standard practice I've found out from a tech, is to first try 'saving' the
head - if they get good checks they don't replace. Lucky I've got my email
which told them to replace the heads.

Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "jimhayes361" <jimhayes@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 3:55 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: 1160 head problems


> 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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