Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Craig Snyder"
<forum@t...> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> <...> I did some searches  for information on parking pads and have
> not come up with anything, written, photo, or diagram. Anyone have
> anything to share, schematics or places to find this information? 
> I'm a technical person but pritners are a brand new thing to me as 
> is BW printing.

If you look into the printer from the front, the parking pad is on the
right side of the chassis.  It is where the head/cartridge assembly
"parks" when nothing is going on.

If you open the top of the printer and push the yellow button as if
you were going to change cartridges, then the head/cart assembly will
move to the left of the carriage.  Unplug the printer, then look to
the far right on the inside, and you will see the little rectangular
parking pad.  It is mounted on springs, and when the cartridge carrier
moves all the way to the right, the carrier bumps a lever which pushes
the pad up against the head.  If you reach in and touch the pad, you
can feel the assembly move around.  You don't want to push on it
forcefully, though.

You can clean it by squirting fluid (like Windex with ammonia, a mix
of ammonia and distilled water, or whatever else you think will work)
into it and then dabbing it with something that is lint-free, or even
suck the fluid back out with a syringe.

Maybe others have better methods.  The last time I did mine carefully,
I removed the screws that hold the plastic top on the printer and
removed it; this gave me much better access to the pad.  I repeatedly
soaked it with Windex via a syringe and then sucked it back out with
another syringe.  It came really clean this way.  The plastic cover
was a bit of a pain to get off because I had no manual and I didn't
want to force anything; it seemed to catch a bit, but I finally worked
it off.

Hope this verbose answer is somewhat helpful!

Eric