Digital BW, The Print

Andy:

You might want to try injecting/sucking Windex instead of Fantistic 
through your printhead nozzles (as described on the MIS site--I 
think?).  I don't know what's in Fantastic, but typical Windex has a 
great combo of ingredients compatable with Epson and MIS ink 
cleaning.  It has water (an excellent solvent), a little isopropal 
alcohol (an excellent wetting agent to get the water into tiny 
places), and a little ammonium hydroxide (that raises the pH which is 
compatable with Epson and MIS inks which are basic).  It also has 
some other grease cutters.  I also use Windex to clean and moisten 
the right parking pad and to clean the far left pad.  Don't forget to 
clean and wet the rubber wiping bar (I don't know what Epson calls 
it) that is hiding under the metal plate just to the left of the 
parking pad.  You could also try placing a folded paper towel wetted 
with Windex in the channel beneath the path of the printhead and 
manually drag the printhead across it. 

Also I suspect some air may be trapped in your nozzles so be careful 
when you are injecting/sucking the Windex through the nozzles not to 
leave air in the nozzles and quickly install a fresh cart (or a cart 
without air bubbles) to minimize air entry. 

Many methods have been described here and at the MIS and PiezoBW 
sites.


Jeff Randall


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "akivisuals" 
<akivisuals@y...> wrote:
> Hello all.  I've got the clog from hell...  I bought a used Epson 
> 1160 online and it arrived with dried up carts in it.  I took the 
carts 
> out and used a cleaning cartridge that I bought from inkjetmall to 
> purge the inks from the system.  After ordering a CFS from MIS, I 
> had to wait for a week for it to arrive so the printer was sitting 
> around without any carts in it at all for about a week.  Now, I 
find 
> that this was probably my big mistake and that any ink remaining 
> in the nozzles would dry out and cause some major clogging.  
> After installing the CFS there were a few bars missing on the 
> yellow and cyan ink sections.  I did the requisite 3 cleaning 
> cycles, then print, repeat, repeat and still the missing bands on 
> the nozzle check.  It's always in the same spot.  So, I tried 
> soaking the felt pads on the right side of the machine with 
> Fantastik hoping that it would solve the problem.  Nope...  Next, I 
> tried using some fresh Epson ink carts and doing the 3 cleaning, 
> print, repeat, repeat, repeat technique and still nothing.  
Finally, I 
> tried injecting the print heads with Fantastik to no avail.  I'm 
out of 
> options and am wondering if there's anything else I can do 
> before I have to send it out and get it worked on professionally.  
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Andy