Digital BW, The Print

my r1800 is horrible, clog-wise. i can't wait for the day i can dance
on its grave. running cleaning cycles actually makes mine worse. every
week to ten day i have to typically spend two days cleaning.

i'm pretty sure all channels get cleaned during a cycle, regardless.

sometimes i run out the quadtonerip calibration image to check/purge.
(after soaking the head, i sometimes get a bit of contamination from
the pads in the head-park area.)

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Myron Gochnauer
<goch@...> wrote:
>
> Last year I purchased an Epson R1800 for use as a "pure carbon"  
> printer (3 MK).
> 
> Then about three months ago I splurged for an Epson 4880.
> 
> The R1800 sat unused for a month or so as I experimented with the  
> 4880, and when I came back to it, several colors were clogged.  No big  
> deal, I thought. That happened with a 2200 as well, and a few cleaning  
> cycles and/or Windex overnight and/or pigment-less cleaning cartridges  
> always put it right.
> 
> With the R1800 I had a dreadful time cleaning the heads. It took me  
> nearly two weeks of cleaning. soaking, sitting, cursing, threatening  
> etc. to get it more-or-less working again.
> 
> The questions:
> 
> 1)  Have others had unusual difficulties cleaning the heads with 1.5  
> picoliter droplets?  I would *guess* that some of the difficulty is  
> related to the smaller dot-size-possibility with the R1800 (in  
> comparison with the 2200, C86 and similar "older" versions).
> 
> 2) If you are using the 3-black version of printing, how do you test  
> and clean the third black... the one in the "glop" position?  The  
> usual head test does not print a test pattern of that position.   Does  
> anyone have an efficient alternative head test?
> 
> 3) Does anyone know whether the Epson cleaning cycles clean the "glop"  
> position?
> 
> Myron
>