Digital BW, The Print

Here's Art's email address:

e-printerhelp( at)mvps(dot) org

(at) = @
(dot) = .

He just posted it again today.

--- 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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