Digital BW, The Print

A more mainline approach to cleaning the bottom of the head and the 
parking pad would be to:

1) Get the printhead into the cartrige changing position (left side 
of printer when standing in front of it) and then turn off the 
power.  Fold a paper towel over and over until it will fit in the 
dark plastic trough the printhead travels in.  Wet it down with 
either Windex with Ammonia D or a 9 to 1 dilution of water (9) and 
household ammonia (1), which is the cleaning solution often used by 
Epson techs.  Move the printhead back and forth across the towel.  
Repeat with new towels until the bottom of the printhead is clean.

2) With the printhead away from the parking pad at the right side of 
the printer you can drip Windex or the ammonia solution on the 
parking pad.  Blot the pad with a paper towel.  Repeat many times 
until the pad is relatively clean.

3)  Turn the printer back on and run 2-3 cleaning cycles.

If this doesn't work, then you officially have a clog from hell.  
Check out Inkjetmall.com (PiezoBW website) or Inksupply.com (MIS 
website) for additional advice.

Hope this helps.

Jeff Randall

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "aardvarko" 
<webmaster.yahoo@a...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "jimevans_2000" 
> <evans.jim@e...> wrote:
> > The printer I have is an Epson Photo 700, which was donated to me 
> by 
> > a frustrated friend. Seems he hadn't used it in awhile, and the 
> > printheads dried up. He couldn't get it to print again no matter 
> what 
> > he did. Any advice for this, short of buying new printheads? 
> 
> First off, I don't believe that you *can* buy new printheads.
> 
> 1. get some nice, thick paper - if you've got an otherwise unusable 
> sheet of Matte Heavyweight, it'll work quite nicely
> 
> 2. use Superglue or Elmer's or something to glue a paper towel to it
> 
> 3. make an image with Photoshop or something that is nothing but 
> vertical bars of black, cyan, magenta, and yellow
> 
> 4. SOAK the paper towel with rubbing alcohol and print the 
> aforementioned document at maximum quality
> 
> 5. if you're feeling daring, get a bottle of Windex and open the 
> printer's lid; squirt back in the "parking area" with the Windex as 
> the printer head passes
> 
> 6. after the page finishes, run the cleaning cycle three times in a 
> row
> 
> 7. repeat as necessary, although don't use the same paper-
towel/page 
> combination - it'll leave disgusting goopy lint-chunks inside your 
> printer if it gets too soggy