Digital BW, The Print

Mark and Everyone,
About three months ago I tried using my 1160 after it had been 
sitting almost a year without being turned on. I tried and tried to 
get rid of a clog in the black tube and cart of my CIS. I contacted 
Nomorecarts and they suggested several solutions and I read 
everything Inkjetmall had on the subject. I tried the syringe with 
Windex and Fantastic. 
Finally in desperation I took the tubing off of the black cart and 
ran a small wire into the tube and worked the plug of ink loose 
and the ink started flowing again.
The 1160 works fine now  and I won't let it go unused for that 
length of time again.
Thom Jackson

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Mark Romine <
klick3@g...> wrote:
> Matin:
> 
> Martin Wesley wrote:
> 
> > When you flushed the ports with Windex did you just push 
the Windex
> > through?
> > When I did this I also pulled the syringe back putting suction 
on the
> > ports
> > to pull any debris out to the nozzles. You might try this again. 
Push
> > Windex
> > through until everything is coming out clean on the paper 
towel
> > underneath.
> > Then let the Windex stand in the nozzles for several hours 
and then
> > suction
> > it out to get out any chunks that may be too large to go out the 
other
> > side.
> > If this back flush is not clean you might want to repeat it.
> 
> This finally did the trick, I have been trying to clear this bugger 
for
> over two weeks. I actually used a similar product to Speedball 
2000 that
> my local janitorial supply house carried and let it set in the 
head for
> 24-36 hours. Soaking the pad did little to bust up this clog it 
was only
> by filling the head with the cleaner and letting it sit like I did that
> it finally cleared things out.
> 
> > Did you try running some Epson carts?
> 
> This helped but it did not completely solve the problem. The 
new Epson
> carts cleared everything expect for four nozzles in the black 
head.
> 
> Thanks everyone,
> Mark
>