Digital BW, The Print

Martin,

Whew — thanks very much!  What a neat trick.

The printer hasn't worked for two months, but at least the lights 
aren't flashing any more.  The easy fix has made me hope that 
you or someone else knows of another fix that will take care of 
the real problem.

In high quality/1440 mode with Piezo driver and inks (or with the 
Epson driver) I had been getting fine bands of black across each 
print, sometimes beginning an inch or so from the print's left 
margin and extending to the right edge of the paper.  Sometimes 
the bands occur in 720 mode, less closely spaced, and 
sometimes not.

I had taken the printer to the local Epson repair place, where I 
was told that the print head needs to be changed ($337.37).  
Apparently banding that changes when one changes print 
modes is not a good sign, according to Epson.  

As a last resort I retrieved the printer and was switching from 
Cone to MIS inks, hoping that the Cone inks were bad.  No such 
luck.  Now that the printer works again, sort of, I see that MIS inks 
also cause identical banding.

I spoke with the Epson guy over the phone and he wasn't aware 
of the buttons to push to get rid of the flashes, by the way.  He did 
flush the heads and lines really well, though, and the flush 
image I printed was totally clear.  I can't imagine there is a clog, 
although at this point I am hoping for one.  

Jan Becket


> Don't panic, this is signal that flush reseivoir could be full - 
> mostly not true. Try switch off and on with [Pause]+[LF]+[Micro 
> Adjust Down] buttons pressed.
> 
> Martin
> 
> >OK, I've got flashing panel lights, all of 'em at once. 
Turning 
off
> >the printer for a while and disconnecting the computer don't
> >seem to make any difference.
> >
> >I had just run a series of head cleanings, with cleaning carts
> >inserted, preliminary to inserting MIS FS carts.  When the 
flush
> >image printed blank, I put in the MIS carts and right away the
> >lights lit up.  At this point, the 3000 doesn't respond to the 
reset
> >button or the hex dump command and doesn't seem to care if
> >the carts are in or out.
> >
> >Anybody run into this before?  I am hoping for a secret reset
> >button somewhere and trying not to think of the possibility that 
it
> >needs a new logic board.
> >
> >Jan Becket
> >