Digital BW, The Print

Hiya Folks,

Following some great advice from folks on this forum, I was able to 
temporarily clean up the mess on my 1280 print heads by placing a 
Windex-soaked paper towel under my heads, and running the carriage back 
and forth over the towel.

Here's an example illustrating the kind of mess I'm talking about:
http://www.sinfin.com/smudges.jpg

I was very surprised at how much ink was under there. I actually used up 
about 8 separate "Windex-soaked paper towel pads" before the amount of 
ink coming off the heads wasn't too bad. (I had removed the ink 
cartridges, by the way).

After some windex to clean the parking pad, a good night's rest and a 
couple of nozzle cleanings the prints coming out of the 1280 were 
problem-free...

until last night, the same pattern of blotches re-appeared.

I've ordered a fresh set of UT-2 cartridges from MIS, in case they are 
involved in the problem, but I'm going to have to go back in there and 
clean out all the excess ink on the heads again.

My question is... at what point do I stop moving the print head carriage 
back and forth over the Windex-soaked paper towel pads? When there is 
absolutely zero ink showing up on the paper towels? or is it okay to 
stop when there is still a little bit of ink showing up on the paper towels.

I'm hoping that the next Windex treatment will be the last one for a while.

Thanks,

Mike