Digital BW, The Print

Epson had me do NINE cleanings in a row one time.   I got pretty livid.  She
kept saying, "bear with me" but I was paying for the ink.

Anyway, it worked.

One thing I always do when I have to clean is go through the alignment setup
also.  This can cause banding also.

Seth

==-----Original Message-----
==From: Scott McLoughlin [mailto:scott@...] 
==Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 6:02 PM
==To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
==Subject: [Digital BW] More C86 woes - New printer
==
==
==I bought a new C86 after no luck with getting a C84 going 
==again after some lack of use.  (BTW, put the Epson C86 
==package inks into the C84, did a head cleaning and now the 
==old C84 prints color like a charm.)
==
==I put the MIS inks into the C86 upon install. Epson driver 
==complained about black (big "X" symbol in the driver), so I 
==just replaced it with a new cartridge (MIS Eboni matte).
==
==Printed the Epson installer test image. Epson driver test 
==print pattern showed severe banding in cyan. I ran a nozzle 
==check and all came out well, except for cyan. So I just 
==replaced cyan with a new cyan cartridge.
==No cleaning cycles or anything. (Tired of futzing).
==
==Repeated nozzle check. CMY do look ok. But now BLACK is very 
==screwed up. Letters smudged and barely legible, lines all broken up.
==How can this be? 
==
==I'm a software engineer, but futzing with printers and inks 
==is so completely opaque.  I can't see any deterministic 
==diagnosis/prognosis course of action.
==
==What should I do?  I'm sort of loathe to embark on more 
==cleaning cycles.
==Last time it did no good and just ate up carts of ink.
==
==Isn't this supposed to be EZ?  Thanks all.
==
==Scott
==
==The C84 setup onced worked well for me
==
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