Digital BW, The Print

I had the same problem on my 1160 a few months back. I tried everything
that you mentioned. I finally gave up thinking that I needed a head
replacement. I took it to a local Epson warranty repair shop and they
unclogged it. The tech showed me what they used. It is a janitorial
cleaning product called Speedball 2000. He had just soaked the pad and
let the head sit on it for 48 hours. After a few cleaning cycles it was
a perfect nozzle check.

www.butchers.com/speedball2000.htm

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> I have an unbelievable clog, worst I have ever seen in four or five
years
of printing with Epsons, even after soaking the parking pad with cleaner
> and letting it stand overnite the same number of nozzels are still
clogged
this morning. This is an 1160 btw.
>
> The way this whole problem started, I was getting decresing density in
midtones almost to the point of getting posterization. I had not printed
> much of anything in six to eight weeks, thus I assumed that the heads
were
experiencing some build up. So I thought the heads needed cleaning,
> pull the CIS carts and flushed each port with windex and a siringe.
This
resulted in nearly every nozzel being clogged, with cleaning cycles I
have
> now got about 70 to 75% of nozzels opened. So I thought that I would
try
cleaning the tubbing and I bought new CIS carts, these are now
> installed but no improvements on the clogggs.
>
> Anyone any suggestions?