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Re: Clogged with Lysonic Inks.

2002-09-29 by Tom O'Connell

Windex on the parking pad and the paper towel under the print heads 
tips should all work fine with Lyson. Lyson makes their own cleaning 
carts, but you can use any brand.

If some of the standard tricks don't work fairly quickly, I would 
leave the cleaning carts in and in addition to daily windex, run a 
couple of purge patterns each day till it clears. 

I've only tried Lysonic for a brief time, so I'm not sure about it's 
propensity to clog, but I've been using Lyson Small Gamut inks for 
more than a year and they seem to be very clog free...I would imagine 
the carts sat in the printer for some long time. What you are trying 
to do is get liquid to the clog and dissolve it, so you may have to 
be quite patient...but it should eventually clear.

Good luck,

Tom O'Connell

TomOC@...
www.thomasoconnell.com



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "lakecd" <lakecd@e...> 
wrote:
> I've acquired a used Epson 860 that had been printing with Lysonic 
> inks. The black is totally clogged, and the color partially. I have 
> unclogged Epson printers in the past using the old Windex trick, 
but 
> don't know if this method can be used to unclog Lyson inks. I'm 
> hesitant to try this without knowing if it will work or completely 
> screw up the printer, and I don't know what solvent is used in the 
> Lysonics. Would appreciate any guidance anyone can give me on 
getting 
> this printer working again. Thanks.
> 
> Donald

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