Digital BW, The Print

FrankG, 

You may want to read my upcoming posting on the PiezoBW forum about 1160 "locked Carriage" woes and possible cause...

Otherwise..good luck ...and don't leave the carts out too long...ouch.

Steadman
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: frankg_photo 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 3:38 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] 1160 disaster - can anyone help ?


  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


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