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RE: [Digital BW] Epson 1290s may be dying-cyan nozzles bad

2005-11-22 by Paul Roark

Colin,

> I am in the process of trying to clear nozzles on the cyan and light
> cyan positions.
> 
> I use the printer for sepia and carbon settings using UT2 inks and I
> only recently ordered bottles of new inks.  Do these use the cyan
> positions?  If not I can continue with the blocked cyan, or maybe I can
> fiddle with the curves?

With the sepia and carbon curves the cyan channel (red curve) is only used
to turn on the black ink.  Some cyan does contribute a bit of density, but
you may not be able to see any difference.  The fact that you only print
with the sepia and carbon inks, thus using very little cyan, is probably why
those jets are clogged.  You may have a perfectly fine sepia and carbon
printer there -- with clogged cyan jets.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

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