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1160 head won't come clean

2004-01-13 by Allen Birnbach

I have an Epson 1160 that I used just a half dozen times, then stored
for a couple of years with cartridges in it. Now I'm trying to get it
back on line. I ran Epson cleaning cartridges for quite a few cycles,
and tried Fantastik on paper towels in the track.

At this point, the nozzle check has three missing lines in the black
bars, one fuzzy line in the black bars, two lines missing in the
magenta and one in the blue.  Multiple cleaning cycles (and then
leaving the unit alone overnight) over the last four days have
resulted in some improvement, but there doesn't seem to be any
improvement any more.

Any other suggestions?  I hate to dump this machine when it is
virtually new, but....

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