Digital BW, The Print

> On Mar 22, 2006, at 1:31 PM, john dean wrote:
> 
> > Greg,
> >
> > I have an option to buy a 9500 cheap here in town for about a 
grand.
> > It has a busted ink line or something
> >
> > John


Find out what that something might be. A cracked flexible line would 
be nothing to fix, even if you bought Epson parts this would be 
cheap. If it is one of the steel lines, it might be more involved. If 
you like the K6 in your 7000, this would give you a wider machine, 
and you already have lots of parts from the donor machines. That is, 
if you have room for this beast.

As hard as it may be to believe, I don't have the parts list printed. 
I guess I better fix this soon.

You might try offering $500, but up to about $750 would be good (if 
it's really just a broken line). I think the flexible lines are a 
metric size, but there might be something close enough that you could 
buy from US Plastic. Dampers are about $12 each, and heads are down 
to about $90 each. Here is the BIG problem... It only has the 
standard parallel port (unless they have a card installed), so that 
might cause an issue. The Belkin par/USB adapter works OK, but the 
Epson type B firewire card is not rated for the 9500 (or converted 
9000). I haven't found a fix for this yet, but I'm still looking 
since I have the printer and the card.