Digital BW, The Print

Hi Paul,

I recently got a 9500 back to life after about 12 months of non-use,
collecting dust in a storage area.  I would say the first thing would
be (after wiping it down of course) to plug it in, hook it up to a
computer and see how its doing.  If it still has ink in its
cartridges, make some test prints.  There will most likely be banding
(horizontal white lines) and the color will probably have shifted, but
it should give you an idea.  

I would recommend using a coated matte paper (like Epson Enhanced
matte or equivalent), not plain or glossy to do tests.  When you are
doing the tests, experiment with different output resolutions (720,
1440, 2880) and the high speed/super controls.  If there is banding,
go into the maintenance mode and run a power cleaning cycle (press the
menu button, scroll down to Maintenance, and select Power cleaning). 
I wouldn't recommend bothering with the regular cleaning cycle at this
point, it won't do much good.  

If, after the power cleaning, you are still getting banding, you might
want to try some print head cleaner.  I know that
fixyourownprinter.com and MIS (inksupply.com) both sell one.  By the
way, I am not affiliated with either of those companies.   The
cleaners should come with instructions, but if not, let me know and I
can explain it to you.  

In my case, I had to go all the way to the point of flushing the
printer with distilled water, and then flushing fluid from before it
was completely fixed.  With the distilled water, I just flushed and
filled the old carts, making sure not to leave any air bubbles in
them.  Afterwards, I put some flushing fluid (different from the
cleaning fluid mentioned before) in the carts and ran that through. 
You can also buy pre-filled flushing carts from MIS, but they run
about $20 a cart.  When using this method, the best thing to do is
print solid blocks of color (one line each of MK,C,M,Y,PK,LC,LM,LK)
until it is running clean.  Then install new cartridges and do the
same thing until they run solid.  Good luck!

-Chris 

 
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Paul Repacholi
<prep@...> wrote:
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> 
> I can get an Epsom 4000 that has sat unused for about 12 months.
> As in put under a table and kicked on odd ocasions unsued :(
> 
> Can anyone point me to a tips and traps help for getting it
> back to life? 
> 
> tnx
>