Digital BW, The Print

Appreciate the replies. Rather than struggle with this tedious 
problem, I'm going to donate the printer to the Photography Club of a 
local high school along with these suggested fixes. It'll be good 
experience with a problem that often afflicts digital darkrooms. 

Donald Lake 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Tom O'Connell" 
<TomOC@s...> wrote:
> 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@s...
> 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