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Re: [Digital BW] trail of ink blots ??

2002-10-04 by Jerry Olson

No, I know. you have dripping from excess ink. You need to do a thorough 
cleaning of the heads, the printer inside, and the
print head bottoms.

Jerry

frankg_photo wrote:
> Jerry,
> the heads aren't blocked though. The nozzle test prints fine.
> I will email you a few jpegs if I may
> Frank
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson 
> <jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> 
>>wipe out your printer with a damp paper towel, it's caused from 
> 
> blobs of
> 
>>ink in the printer.  You may have to do the windex paper towel 
> 
> trick,
> 
>>send the printheads to the left side of the printer, unplug the 
> 
> printer,
> 
>>and put a 1x12 inch paper towel (fold it over and over on itself) 
> 
> in the
> 
>>trough and drag the print heads over it. This plus wiping out the
>>printer, plus a couple head cleanings should do the trick.
>>
>>Jerry
>>
>>frankg_photo wrote:
>>
>>>I've been printing an image in the centre of a sheet, which has a
>>>wide white paper border around it, on 13x19 paper.
>>>
>>>Down one side, in the blank white border, not in the image area, 
>>
> the
> 
>>>side at the end of the printheads travel, it seems to be dropping 
>>
> a
> 
>>>trail of ink blots, not in a perfectly straight line, but sort of
>>>like a row of drunk ants. Each drop is about the size of a large-
>>
> ish
> 
>>>pin head
>>>
>>>What on earth is this and how can I remedy it ?
>>>
>>>I could scan and post or email the problem if my description isnt
>>>clear ?
>>>
>>>MIS sepia>neutral inks and an 1160
>>>
>>>thanks
>>>Frank
>>>
>>>
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