Digital BW, The Print

I have the Epson 1280 printer. This may not be the case with the 1160.

Using the Cleaning utility in the Epson driver, you can run more than 3 
consecutive cleaning / nozzle check cycles without causing harm to the 
printer.

I had a single black bar in my black nozzle that would not come clean. 
Finally I called Epson tech support, expecting to mail the thing in for 
repair.

Instead, the technician had me run 5 consecutive cleaning/nozzle check 
cycles, and on the 5th one the clog broke free.

The technician told me that if you run consecutive cleaning/nozzle 
checks using the cleaning utility in the driver, each successive 
cleaning cycle uses a bit more ink and a bit more pressure. I did not 
ask what the "limit" was on running the cleaning cycles, but I didn't 
get the impression that we were going to stop at number 5.

I got the clog using MIS Ultra Tone inks, and did my cleaning cycles 
with Epson OEM ink.

Good Luck,

Mike

Allen Birnbach wrote:

> 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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