Digital BW, The Print

Truman --

How long has it been since you began to attack this clog?  My own experience 
with many clogs in both of my Epson 1160s  is that, if the various remedies 
you have tried do not seem to be working, a rest period of a day or two (not an 
hour or two) may do the trick.  On a few occasions, when I was ready to 
completely give up on the printer, I suddenly found I was getting a perfect nozzle 
check.  Try resisting the urge to keep cleaning for a few days and see what 
happens.  Let us know.

Rita Bernstein


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Truman

Send Arthur Entlich an email requesting his Epson Cleaning Manual.
Art has been collecting all the do's and dont's for a long time.

artistic-1@...

Reinier

Windex contains ammonia, which is highly corrosive, if you use it in 
your print head, as I did, you will find that it is likely to damage 
the circuit board which is part of the head, which is what happened 
to mine. Use a Epson approved cleaner or just pure water. If you 
can't clear a clog with cleaning cycles you are in trouble. 
You are better off not using any inks that have a history of 
clogging. I have experiance with a 1200, 1270, 3000, 1160 and a 2200. 
The 2200 using the UC inks and the QTR  rip to produce fantastic B/W 
prints, NEVER, I repeat, NEVER, clogs even after letting it sit 
without printing for many days. The 3000 has minor clogs which are 
usually cleared with a couple of cleaning cycles. The rest all had 
major clogging problems which resulted in the need for new heads 
after using Windex....I'm a slow learner...

Sierra Gold

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Reinier van der 
Ryst" <rvdryst@t...> wrote:

> Truman
> 
> Send Arthur Entlich an email requesting his Epson Cleaning Manual.
> Art has been collecting all the do's and dont's for a long time.
> 
> artistic-1@s...
> 
> Reinier

Windex with ammonia contains ammonia.  There are other variations
available.  But, many folks have solved clogs with Windex. Not in the
heads, though; under the the heads on  paper towel. Techniques should be
searchable at the Yahoo portal.

Caution: water means distilled water, not tap or bottled water. The
stuff they sell you to drink is not pure.

Seth

=Windex contains ammonia, which is highly corrosive, if you use it in 
=your print head, as I did, you will find that it is likely to damage 
=the circuit board which is part of the head, which is what happened 
=to mine. Use a Epson approved cleaner or just pure water. If you 
=can't clear a clog with cleaning cycles you are in trouble.