Digital BW, The Print

There is a man on the epson forum who give out a cleaning manual for 
epson printers. You have to email him personally at

e-printerhelp@...

His name is Arthur Entlich. He will send you a copy gratis.

Leslie Otterbein


On Jul 25, 2005, at 7:36 PM, Jeff Medkeff wrote:

>
>  This was on the list a couple weeks ago:
>
>
>
>  mepreuss wrote:
>
>
>  > I recently tooled a brand new C86 with MIS EZ inks and have been 
> very
>  > happy with the results.  However on close inspection of the prints I
>  > see random black dots in any light area, including shaded and
>  > non-shaded areas.
>
>
>  Matt Haber wrote:
>
>  > I suspect it's a dirty head. I've had that problem, and cleaning the
>  > underside of the print head with an ammonia saturate towel will 
> clear
>  > it up.
>
>
>
>
>  Marty, did you ever try cleaning as described? Did that solve the
>  problem? (The random black dots are showing up in my prints, as well.)
>
>  Can anyone point me to a procedure for cleaning the underside of the 
> C86
>  print head with Windex (or etc)? The specific difficulty I'm having is
>  understanding how to reach the underside of the print head. I'm a
>  small-fingered man, but I can't come close to reaching it, and it is
>  non-obvious to me how to remove it. (I *am* a mechanical moron, so 
> none
>  of this is surprising.)
>
>  I've gotten to the point where (excepting the black dots) I am really
>  liking the output of this combination (C86-EZN) and I'm getting
>  consistent, predictable results. I've made several prints now that I
>  think are gorgeous, and I'm usually terribly nonplussed with my own
>  results. I'm very impressed with this combination, and have to thank
>  Paul Roark and his website again for turning me on to it.
>
>  Thanks for any assist,
>
>  --
>  Jeff Medkeff
>  Eagle River, Alaska