Digital BW, The Print

Justin,

Go with Paul's advice but if you do not have any flushing carts and 
need to get back up in a hurry, put in some Epson color cartridges 
and use them as flush cartridges. A number of people, including 
myself, had good luck with this clearing Piezo clogs.

Also, if you still have the clog with the Epson inks, it may be time 
for a warranty repair or replacement.

Martin Wesley

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "smithj72" <smithj72@y...> 
wrote:
> Hello,
>          I am using a 1280, a cis from nomorecarts.com, and Paul's 
> VM HEX inks and curves, 99% of the time I use the neutral curve.  
> Everything was working fine for months until a few days ago I 
> noticed horizontal stripes in my prints.  I think this is banding, 
but 
> I am not sure if this is the proper term for what I am seeing.  
> Anyway, I ran an alignment check and found that I needed to 
> make some adjustments.  I then ran a nozzle check and found 
> that I needed to have the heads cleaned, which I did, several 
> times, but no improvement.  What I am seeing is that of the six 
> groups of diagonal lines, "#5", or 5th from the left is always 
> incomplete in the same way.  I have run the head cleaning cycle 
> many times both through the software and manually with the 
> button on the front of the printer.  I have also waited overnight a 
> couple of times as it says to do in the printer user manual.  The 
> quality of my prints has improved since I first noticed the 
> problem, and I figure that is the result of the re-alignment, but 
> there is still some very faint horizontal lines in my prints.  Has 
> this happened to anybody else?  Is there a remedy?  I would 
> graetly appreciate any input any of you might have on this matter.
> Thanks in advance,
> Justin Smith