Digital BW, The Print

"Try the following. Take a piece of paper towel and tear it into a 
long strip. Fold it double. Soak it in Windex. 

Hold down the ink-load button so that the head assembly moves to the 
left, to the loading position. Now unplug the printer from power. 
This allows you to move the head by hand.  Lay the Windex-soaked 
strip of paper towel down in the channel that the head passes over. 
(Set the paper thickness lever to the UP position. This makes it 
easier to get the heads over the paper towel). Now lower the heads 
onto the towel in the channel and move the head back and forth so 
that it rubs against the paper towel a few times.  

Leave the printer sit for a few hours with the heads sitting against 
the wet towel. Then, remove paper towel and manually move the heads 
back to the right-hand position. Plug the printer back in.

Run a nozzle-check. Run a cleaning cycle as well. If this technique 
hasn't worked try it again, letting the head rest against the Windex-
soaked paper towel overnight. If this fails, it's time for new heads 
or a new printer."  this is from Michael Reichman's site Luminous-
Landscape. I hope it helps

Patrick
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Johnny Eades" 
<jeades1@s...> wrote:
> 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