Digital BW, The Print

Sorry to come back on this but a couple of quick follow up questions.  After many hours 
messing with this yesterday and a ton of ink-soaked paper towels, I finally got a good 
nozzle check and thought I was done.  But this morning it was back.  So I left another 
Windex soaked paper towel in there again for several hours.  It came out soaked in ink and 
I have a good nozzle check.  How do you know when you are properly done?  Does the 
paper towel draw ink out of the cartridge or is all this ink I am soaking up actually garbage 
in the pad and the bottom of the printer head?

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@v...> 
wrote:
> When I see ink spraying out to the sides, I think there may be junk on the
> surface of the head, deflecting the jet.  So, I do the "Windex on paper
> towel under the head" trick.  
> 
> The last few times I've done this I used a "Double Fold Bias Tape" (13 mm
> wide) that I bought at Wal-Mart in the sewing department.  It seems easier
> than cutting and folding paper towels.  I basically soaked a piece of this
> with Windex; laid it down in the area that the head travels over; put the
> head height to +; with the printer off, released the head by pulling the
> white gear at the left toward me; moved the head over the soaked cloth tape;
> lowered the head; grabbed the ends of the "bias" tape; and moved it back and
> forth below the head.  
> 
> I also clean the pad with Windex (or any window cleaner with ammonia) and
> paper towels, because that is the area where the head is probably picking up
> the junk.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
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