Digital BW, The Print

The easy, fail-safe way to release an Epson printer head for cleaning:

  Turn on the printer, and when the head is busy somewhere away from  
its parked position, pull out the power cord. (For example, press the  
button to change cartridges and then pull out the power cord.)  This  
will not harm the printer, since it has to have been designed to  
recover from accidental power outages when it is working.

When you're cleaning in there, be fairly gentle around little pad  
that goes up under the heads when they park or dump ink during  
startup or cleaning --- it is a fairly flimsy, plastic mechanism with  
a drain tube on the bottom. I managed to dislodge the drain tube one  
time and dislocate the pad or pivot as well (!)  ...it was one inky  
mess to get it working again even though it is a very simple  
mechanism. [Short of completely dismantling these printers, I don't  
think there is an *easy* way to gain access to parking side of the  
printer mechanism.]

When you're finished cleaning, plug  the printer back in and it will  
reorganize itself to print or park properly.

Myron