Digital BW, The Print

Myron,

You need to head on over to the Yahoo Epson printer
group and get an Epson cleaning manual from Art
Entlich.  You have to privately email him a request
for the manual.  He posts pretty frequently and at
least once a week or so posts the email address to
request the manual.

From seeing Art's previous posts I wonder if the
suction tube on your printer has come off of the pump
end or the head parking station end.  The pump is what
applies suction to the head during a nozzle cleaning,
and if it isn't applying the suction adequately the
cleaning won't be thorough.  Also, if it were my
printer I would make some cleaning carts for it with
some empty Epson carts using Art's Windex/alcohol
cleaning fluid.

Mike Brubaker

--- Myron Gochnauer <goch@...> wrote:

> Do any of you have any idea why an Epson 2200 would
> very suddenly (but  
> consistenly, now) almost completely stop printing
> one or more "colors"  
> part way through something like an 11x17 print?
> 
> I can begin with a perfect nozzle check and full
> cartridges, start  
> printing something that requires a fairly large
> about of ink, and have  
> one or more inks essentially stop printing half way
> across the page.   
> Grrrrr.
> 
> A nozzle check immediately after this happens looks
> like a disaster  
> for all of the colors. A few hours later, usually
> after unsuccessfully  
> running a couple cleaning cycles, it will be back to
> good nozzle checks.
> 
> It is *not* always the same cartridge.
> 
> It *acts* as though some kind of ink pump cannot
> keep up, or there is  
> a leak in a line somewhere...  but I don't know how
> those Epson heads  
> "suck" ink from the cartridges and "blow" it onto
> the paper.
> 
> Have any of you torn one of these things far enough
> apart to know  
> where the "impotence" might be found?
> 
> I would probably just stop using the printer, but my
> new R1800 is  
> totally useless for printing on canvas (something
> the 2200 does quite  
> easily, I might add).
> 
> Thanks.
> Myron
> 
> 



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