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Re: Dampers

2004-10-18 by John Vitollo

> Did you try to clean those dampers with something before ordering your new heads? I 
> guess these things could build up gunk before the ink even gets to the head and back 
up 
> like a sewage line.

No. The 7000 belongs to my client over an hour away. If the printer was close by I would 
try the dampers first. But figured if I have to get to the dampers I might as well replace the 
heads too.

But you are correct about gunk build up. I think it was Ernst who recomended to replace 
the dampers first to see it that fixes the banding/bad nozzle check problem.

The printer itself hasn't many prints through it but has had about four different ink sets 
ink. I'm sure the dampers are not in great shape.

Tomorrow is the big day - installing heads and dampers. I'll let eveyone know how it goes.

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