Digital BW, The Print

Call Epson tech support. It sounds like (hasn't happened to me so can't say
for sure) what happens when too many cleaning cycles have been run and the
printer needs to be sent in for service to have the waste ink pads replaced
and the printer reset. Those cleaning cycles need to be used judiciously.

But hopefully I'm wrong!

Todd

> What seemed to have been a promising start to my quad printing
> experience has developed into a nightmare.
> 
> The 1160 has continually flashing lights for the power and paper feed
> and a continuous light for the ink. Everything is 'jammed.
> 
> The carriage is stuck on the right and I cant move it left manually
> to check if it's all ok in there.
> 
> I have tried the reset by: removing the usb, powering on while
> holding down the ink and paper feed buttons, releasing them when the
> lights start flashing (about 5 sec), and then pressing the paper feed
> once - it doesnt work.
> 
> Here's the history: I ran nozzle checks, head allignment checks and
> print checks with the original Epson carts installed. ok.
> 
> Then the MIS CIS kit arrived and I took out the Epson carts and
> filled the CIS with the quad inks and set it aside to stand
> overnight. 
> When I went back to it this morning I found that I had to call MIS
> about some missing components in the kit, and while discussing the
> install steps, he said I should not have left the epson carts out all
> night as the print heads could dry (stupid me!). I should replace
> them and be absolutely sure the nozzle check pattern is still ok
> before installing the CIS.
> 
> Needless to say the nozzle check was not good - I ran several
> cleaning cycles and nozzle checks. Clearly (dont mind the pun) there
> was a major clog or something amiss. I also tried printing the purge
> pattern which had major white horizontal lines across the 3 colors
> and no black. I did this for hours.
> 
> I left it to rest while I tried to 'cool off' and I came back to find
> the scenario that I described above in the first paragraph. Now I
> cant even do a utility test. Unfortunately I bought a used unit on
> ebay and there's no transferable (person to person) warranty from
> epson.
> 
> Can anyone pull a rabbit out of a hat for me ?
> 
> thanks
> frankg