Digital BW, The Print

"john dean" wrote:

> How did it go John? Did you have a chance to replace the head.

Hi John D.

I just got in and winding down a little. The good news is the heads and dampers went in 
without a hitch in the Epson 7000. It's just a little nerve-wracking as I didn't want to 
damage anything while installing. Installing the tension springs was the most tedious as 
they are small and not much wiggle room. Total time to open, install and close, a little 
over an hour. A tip is to print out important pages from the manual so you don't have to 
run back and forth to read the PDF - like I did.

Nozzle Check looked sharp as a tack! A big difference from the original heads. But the 
forth ink had missing nozzles. I think it's just air in the head - I hope - so the printer will 
sit for a day or so before we do another nozzle check.

But the most draining part of the process - both ink wise and mentally/emotionally was 
trying to figure out how to set the printhead ID via the Head Rank Input menu. Man-Oh-
Man the manual is a little sketchy on the buttons to push. But I figured it out after a long 
while of just pushing buttons. 

I installed the dampers and heads with the inks still in the lines and there is a way to avoid 
the default of "Initial Fill" after entering the printhead ID. But the button sequence 
recommended did not work. So in the end we had to do another Initial Fill and that just 
about drained all the inks out of the carts. So my client has to order more inks before we 
can proceed. Another $260.00 without a print.

All in all installing the dampers and heads was fairly easy. The most difficult part was 
inputting the head info and trying to avoid the Initial Fill default.

Best,

John V.