Digital BW, The Print

Hi again, Guys,

I'm having the overspray problem yet again; this is the third epson
printer that had it.  However this one is still well within warranty. 
Before I contact epson, are there any on this list who have successfully
solved the problem?  At first, if you do a few under the printhead
cleanings with an ammonia soaked and dampened paper towel, it goes away
for a few prints, but then comes right back.  Is this a defective
printhead, or something else? I've run lots of cleanings, and there are
no clogs or air in the inktubes, so that isn't the problem.  This time,
it is on the top and bottom of horizontal images, but not on the sides.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Jerry

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> Hi again, Guys,
> 
> I'm having the overspray problem yet again; this is the third epson
> printer that had it.  However this one is still well within
warranty. 
> Before I contact epson, are there any on this list who have
successfully
> solved the problem?  


Jerry,

We have trouble-shot hundreds upon hundreds of 1280 printers. The
1280s are very prone to overspray problems. And our experience has been 
that users have not been able to fix it themselves. Either the heads or the=

board which controls the heads needs replacement. We see these test 
patterns when we finally get unsettled users to send them in when they 
experience excessive banding or noisy prints or prints with excessive dot 
patterns.

We verify overspray in the following tests: nozzle patterns may look fine, =
but 
alignment patterns, when viewed under very strong magnification, have a 
tendency to print double rows of dots instead of connected dots. Also, the =

spray tends to one side (usually the right side) so that overspray can be s=
een 
on the border of a photograph (using a loop). In any case, when printing it=
 
produces unwanted dots in many places or micro-banding.

Print your alignment patterns and look with a strong loop to see the split =
dots.  
Then call Ron Ardito to do your warranty repair. Arditos.com

regards,

Jon Cone
Piezography™ Brand Inks and Software
http://www.inkjetmall.com

PS  Jerry, I got your cool inks in, finally.     ;)