Digital BW, The Print

There is an easily available and inexpensive alternate for the Epson fluid. It's sold as a potable water system antifreeze for RVs. It's  pink (like those cleaners offered for so much on E'bay). Listed contents are ethyl alcohol and propylene glycol.It even smells good ;)

I've been using it for some time now.It seems to work best at about 50:50 with H2O.
Last summer I even used it to salvage an old 7500 that had been sitting in a barn outside of Albany NY for many months with the heads open and no capping station at all installed.It was impossible to even force fluid through the heads until I soaked them a couple of days in some of it.I also used it to flush out the cartridge lines,dampers,an old cap station I had hung on to and the needle station.
The printer is fully functional now and is used for C6 B&W (actually C5 plus a very low gamut toner).The worst problem was cleaning the stand casters of residue from the barns previous occupants :)

Regards
Duane



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pr_roark" <roark.paul@...> wrote:
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  Note that Epson cleaning solution is about 45% glycol.  It makes a good cleaner, but the higher percentages of it make printing rougher.  

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