Digital BW, The Print

Not sure how you would assess the risks of damaging your print heads, 
but...
I recall seeing somewhere on the web a detailed saga by someone who 
had hopelessly clogged heads on an Epson Photo printer and who had 
removed the head assembly from the printer to explore what exactly 
was plugged and to try different things to get it unclogged. The web 
page had a number of very clear pictures of the head assembly. The 
part of the print head that faces the paper surface did not appear to 
be at all delicate. It looked like a block of steel with a bunch of 
very fine apertures through which (I presume) the inks eject. My 
impression was that the head is not really subject to damage from 
media.

...Ben


> THE QUESTION:  some people on another forum
> (Photo.Net) have warned that printing on oddball media
> might damage the print heads.  They offered no basis for
> ecxpet speculation.   I did extensive Google searches
> on phrases like "print head damage", "damage your
> print heads", etc, etc, and the only hits I got had to
> do with using 3rd-party inks - nothing about the media.
> 
> How do I assess the risks of damaging my print heads
> using oddball media?