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Re: [Digital BW] KK2 Head cleaning on large Epsons

2004-10-18 by Mark MacKenzie

What printer do you have?  I have an Epson 9000/9500 and various 
manuals.  You are in the wrong menu choice. That is all.

If yours is similar to mine I will post the correct method.

Mark

john dean wrote:

>
>
> AS to KK2 Cleaning, I could not find the procedure stated in the 
> manual and instead used
> the sheet that someone posted for KK2 on a 7000 on the Yahoo site. 
> This procedure
> worked just like the sheet they gave me until it comes to the part 
> that says "now to the
> KK2 Cleaning Cycle". At that point my printer differed from this 
> sheet. When I selected
> SELECT TYPE where the menu should have spelled out "Check Cleaning". 
> Instead the only
> options available when I scrolled through the options were, Check 
> Nozzle , and Clean
> Head. Clean Head was really the only choice. I chose that and then the 
> screen stated
> "remove ink", which I did not do because then that made no sense and 
> the level of ink
> display would have been all wrong when I went back to use the machine. 
> So each time I
> just clicked enter.The screen said "blowing heads" while it went 
> through a long involved
> cleaning cycle which I assume was the KK2 cycle. But never on the 
> printer screen did I see
> the words KK2 or KK1 or whatever as an option. However, none of these 
> 4 cleanings did
> anything to change the nozzle patterns.
>
> Did I really do a KK2 cleaning or should I order my new heads tomorrow?
> Any suggestions. I've got to get to work printing again.
>
> John Dean
>
>
>
>
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