Digital BW, The Print

Stephen,

First, are you using a CIS with your MIS VM inks? I think that is 
what Mark is talking about. If so, I will tell you how to fix the 
problem, it took months or experiementing and switching out parts 
with MIS, but we finally have it working with no problems.

If you loaded carts and have air in the line, all the cleaning cycles 
in the world will not help as the 7000 lines are very long. You need 
to do an initial fill to purge the air. You do not have to remove the 
ink, but just do the init fill.

Here is how it is done;

Epson 7000 - INITIAL CHARGE PROCEDURE
1 - Ensure printer is off.
2 - Hold 3 buttons down and turn on machine. The three (3) buttons 
are:
a) "Paper feed +" ( Paper feed plus)"
b) "Paper feed -" ( Paper feed minus)
c) "Cut/Eject" (Enter)

3 - The LCD will display "Check : Test

4 - Press the "Paper Source" button four (4) times to toggle through 
the
cleaning menu until the LCD displays : "Check : Cleaning".

5 - Press the "Enter" Button. The LCD will display "Cleaning : 
Std.KK0"

6 - Press the "Paper Source" Button to toggle though the menu until 
the LCD
displays "Cleaning : Init. Fill"

7 - Press the "Enter" Button to beginning the charging routing. 
("Init.
Fill" = Initial Fill)

8 - When the charging routing is finished - you will need to turn the
printer OFF to exit these menus. Turn it back ON to begin normal 
operation.

Hope this helps, it has always worked for me when I got air in the 
lines. I have never used fantastic or windex on my 7000. I find the 
heads are usually cleared by sitting or the cleaning cycles.

Let me know if this helps, 

Mike



 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Stephen Harrison <sh@s...> 
wrote:
> >I have an Epson 7000 and was installing the MIS VM Quad tone inks 
> >and there seems to be air { it could be a clog as well although 
> >probably is air)  in only one of my jets. I have waited 48 hours, 
> >run many cleaing cycles and printed out many sheets  all to no 
> >avail. The block remains. I have read where Fantastic can be 
> >inserted on the pads where the heads rest for the Epson 3000. Does 
> >anyone know if this is effective for the Epson 7000 as well?
> 
> 
> Stephen Harrison