Digital BW, The Print

1160 printers were discontinued years ago. You can still get a new one
in Australia for about $300 US, but how to ship? Taxes? Duty? There are
no four color printers made anymore that I'm aware of. The 1280 is quite
nice, and recently the price dropped a hundred dollars.

Jerry

DC wrote:
> 
> on 8/19/02 09:19 AM PST, Paul Roark wrote:
> 
> > I don't know where the inks dried in my CIS systems, but twice I used
> > systems that had been sitting idle for a while, and they clogged my 1160 --
> > seriously.  The second one killed the head.  For me it was the color head.
> > (I paid $180 to have the head replaced.)
> 
> Paul, where did you get the heads replaced for $180?  The local Epson
> service center (in L.A.) quoted me, for an 1160,  $240 PLUS new Epson carts
> (needed to initialize, acccording to her), for which they charge around $50!
> So the total cost would be almost $300!!!!
> 
> She also said that the color head and black head is an assembly, and they
> can't replace the color only (the K is fine).
> 
> This 1160 sat un-used for probably a year and half.  I fired it up, got
> perfect nozzle checks, then after a few prints, started banding.  I tried
> EVERY trick in the book, to no avail.
> 
> I want to use this 1160 for quad printing.  Is it worth it to get it fixed,
> or should I write it off as bad luck, and get a new 1160.  Are they
> available?  Or should I get another printer for quads? (no 6 colors, I have
> too much invested in 4)
> 
> David
> 
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