Digital BW, The Print

Hello Paul,

One thing that stood out in the message below was the mention of 
wiping the head with a windex soaked paper towel. How do you wipe 
the head on the 1280 Epson??? 




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> I have the 1280 and Ultra Tone (UT) inks running.  Using the 
standard 1280
> driver, the results, including with the warm/carbon curve, are 
probably the
> best prints I've yet seen.
> 
> I had some initial clogging, but I suspect it was caused by 
residual OEM dye
> on the parking pad.  And the problem appears to be easy to solve. 
This
> should only be an issue for those who have just used dye in the 
printer
> before installing the UT inks.
> 
> MIS has found that the Eboni black ink can react with the OEM 
dye.  There is
> not enough dye in the heads of desktop printers to be a serious 
problem.
> (Large format printers must purge.)  However, I think a problem 
can come
> from the dye that is on the parking pad.  This 1280 (that had just 
been used
> with OEM dye) often took a cleaning cycle to get a clean nozzle 
check after
> even a short sit on the pad.  I've never had any UT clogs like 
this on
> printers that had not previously used dye ink.  So, on the 1280 I 
cleaned
> off the parking pad by flooding it with Windex and wiping it with 
a paper
> towel.  I also wiped the head with a Windex-soaked paper towel.  
The
> clogging now appears to be gone.  So, for those who have used dye 
in
> printers, I'd recommend cleaning the parking pad with Windex before
> installing the UT inks.
> 
> I'll have the first (EEM/EAM) curves set ready to ship to MIS and 
others
> today.
> 
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com