Digital BW, The Print

Try doing a head alignment from the maintenance tab in the Epson
driver. Be sure to use the same paper you will be using for your final
output. 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "paulmwhiting"
<paulmwhiting@...> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> 
> Forgive me for what must be a well-worn topic, I've spent considerable
> time looking for similar threads here. I did find several but none
> quite addresses my issue, or at least that I could find.
> 
> The subject line tells some of the story... I also need to add that
> I've got the el cheapo $5 MIS carts in the color positions (after the
> original Epsons got used up), figuring for BO printing it didn't
> matter what I put there. Am using three papers, Moab Kayenta, Epson
> Enhanced Matte and Epson Heavyweight Matte (now called something else
> I understand). 
> 
> I'm basically printing photos no larger than the cover of a note card,
> with occasionally a 5 x 7. Until now have been real happy with the
> results but recently got some banding on a 5 x 7. Did a nozzle check
> and the Cynan pattern showed some breaks so did a few cleaning cycles
> with no change in the cyan pattern. I read a document on the MIS site
> which said not to clean more than three cycles in a row or you can
> damage the printer... that was after I did about four cycles, so did I
> damage the printer? How do I tell? Anyway, this document said to do
> three cycles, then run a print or a purge file to reset the firmware,
> then you can do three more cycles. If this doesn't work you should let
> the printer rest for about two hours then try again. I did that, no
> luck. Then it said to do something with Windex but I can't find any
> thing on their site explaining what exactly that technique is. Where
> do you put the Windex, and how?
> 
> Another question: if the nozzle check only shows the cyan as having
> breaks, all the others  being perfect, including the black, why would
> that effect BO printing?
> 
> I considered putting this question on the Epson site but folks here
> seem more familiar with BO printing. (By the way, does anyone else
> have trouble navigating the MIS site? I have trouble find items!)
>