Digital BW, The Print

Get Art Entlich's Epson cleaning manual and try those methods first before you try a repair shop.  You have to email Art directly to request his free cleaning manual.  Go through back posts on this forum and you will find one with his email address.



--- On Tue, 7/29/08, k5cad <k5cad@...> wrote:

> From: k5cad <k5cad@...>
> Subject: [Digital BW] hope for Epson 1160? If not what next?
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 11:34 AM
> Hello from a Nooby(more or less). Five years ago I retired,
> closed my
> wet lab and started  printing black only with an Epson
> 1160. A year
> later when an illness and two household moves doused that
> passion the
> 1160 was a lightly used printer that was put in a box 
> without
> flushing or cleaning it in any way. It has been there for
> over two years.
> 
> Is there any hope for it?  Will Epson refurb it even at any
> price? Is
> there a clean printer head in a repair shop drawer
> someplace that
> would bring it back to life? I have been watching eBay for
> a while now
> hoping to see one of those "new in the box "
> listings where someone
> died after it was ordered,. Can I recapture that golden
> time in my
> life or just give up. Even after reading everything I can
> find by Paul
> Roark and Clayton Jones, I can't figure out how to get
> back on the
> merry-go-round. 
> 
> This Rip van Winkle is rapidly approaching 80 years old
> with 3 great
> grand kids to shoot and 100s of  real Tri-X  negatives -
> some medium
> format and many 4x5 landscapes to scan and print. I'm
> Ok with the
> scanner. I have no need to print glossy or color, only
> matte paper 13
> inches wide. I don't have time for a steep learning
> curve.
> 
> I will listen to every idea presented.
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> Steele in Texas