Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "copal01" 
<copal01@y...> wrote:
> Thanks Steve, I have posted a new address to show the problem 
> http://www.pbase.com/mcc01/head_dots

Hi Manuel,

Steve has given you some good advice for making sure that your heads 
are clean and not obstructed. That could be the problem and is the 
easier step to try first. You may also want to check the parking pad, 
and put some windex on that and dab it with a paper towel to pull up 
old excess ink. Then put some fresh windex on the pad and park your 
freshly cleaned heads on it for a few hours or overnight. Go through 
the 3 cleaning cycle described in many previous messages before doing 
a new set of test prints.

If that doesn't correct the problem, you may find that you 
have "foamy ink" in your cartridge, and since that foam doesn't flow 
smoothly into the heads, it tends to cause randomized "spatter 
patterns". It may be only in the eboni position, or could involve 
multiple positions. You can probably tell by pulling your eboni cart 
and replacing it with an Epson OEM black cart and doing an alignment 
print to see if the problem persists. (make sure you pinch off the 
line(s) near the bulk bottle if you pull the cart to preserve vacumn) 

There is very clear directions on the MIS site under CFS 
Troubleshooting that tell you how to extract the foamy ink and 
resolve that kind of issue, (including preserving vacumn or restoring 
feed if you loose it --  so no sense repeating it here.

These are the two steps I used in resolving the same issue on my 1280 
running UT/Eboni inks. Everything works perfectly now.

Good luck -- it's definitely a job that calls for a bit of patience 
and rubber gloves, but the results are definitely worth the effort ;>)

Richard


> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
> Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> > Hi Manuel,
> > 
> > This doesn't sound like an alignment problem; there's no reason 
why 
> > a different ink would cause alignment problems. I wasn't abe to 
> > access your URL to check, but it sounds like dried ink crusted 
> > around the nozzle openings. Try soaking a 2-3 layer thick strip 
of 
> > paper towel and running it under the head to wipe it clean. 
You'll 
> > have to manually release the head, for which I don't know the 
> > specific procedure for that printer, maybe someone can help with 
> > that?
> > 
> > Steve Karafyllakis
> > 
> > http://www.stevekphoto.com
> > 
> > > I made also head alignments and always get dot spread outside 
of 
> > the 
> > > vertical lines and I don't know why. how I can correct that?
> > > Any help will be apreciated
> > > manuel
> > > this is a link to see a scan of the head alignment
> > > http://tinyurl.com/2c4d5