Digital BW, The Print

Has anyone tried to replace the heads on an 1160 yourself? I bought the 
Epson repair manual and adjustment software and it doesn't look hard. I 
was just wondering if anyone had tried it.

Thanks,

Cort

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Cort Anderson
Training Wheels, llc
www.trwheels.com
620-488-2960
620-488-3196 fax

Some years ago I too bought the manual, but Epson absolutely refused
to sell me the two floppies that only run on Win98 to do the aligning.

Then I begged and pleaded with a local Epson repair center, who had a
copy of the software, to let me beg buy borrow or steal the software.
Although they were very nice about, they refused.

This was at a time when the 1160 was still under Epson warranty, but
if you had a problem, Epson sent you frightful messes as  "refurbised"
replacements through the mail. I got one that not only made growling
noises, but looked liked it was growing fur on the inside.

The service center could have just swapped heads on my clean printer
under warranty right? Nope. Epson demanded they send it in for a
"swap". The 1160 was on their list of forbidden printers to do
warranty work on. The only way I could have gotton the head change was
to pay someone to do it (aka the service center, drop any idea of
warranty).

Rant off.

I am surprised and gladdened to see that you can now obtain a copy of
the software. I wasn't the only one refused the software, so many
people that could have tried it didn't. It did seem quite a doable
procedure, as long as you use Win98 and a parallel port.

Good luck,  would be nice to hear how it worked out for you. As I no
longer own 1160's the software wouldn't do me much good now.

Jim Hayes




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Cort Anderson
<stats@t...> wrote:

> Has anyone tried to replace the heads on an 1160 yourself? I bought the 
> Epson repair manual and adjustment software and it doesn't look hard. I 
> was just wondering if anyone had tried it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Cort
> 
> --
> Cort Anderson
> Training Wheels, llc
> www.trwheels.com
> 620-488-2960
> 620-488-3196 fax

On Saturday, January 3, 2004, at 07:44  PM, jim hayes wrote:

> Some years ago I too bought the manual, but Epson absolutely refused
> to sell me the two floppies that only run on Win98 to do the aligning.

I should have done this in the first post. Here are the links to where 
I bought the manual and the software, you can pay and download them 
immediately http://www.2manuals.com . I found the parts at 
http://www.atlex.net , e-mail them and they will send you a PDF with 
exploded views and their part numbers. There are a couple of other 
places I found but this looked the best.

I am not promoting either of these two places just that I found the 
info and parts on them. If anyone has had experience with them I would 
like to hear about it as well as any other sources for parts.

Cort

--
Cort Anderson
Training Wheels, llc
www.trwheels.com
620-488-2960
620-488-3196 fax

Jim,

You can buy it from www.findmanual.net, I think. I got a 1270/90 manual and
software from them.

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jim hayes" <jimhayes@...>

I am surprised and gladdened to see that you can now obtain a copy of
the software. I wasn't the only one refused the software, so many
people that could have tried it didn't. It did seem quite a doable
procedure, as long as you use Win98 and a parallel port.

Good luck,  would be nice to hear how it worked out for you. As I no
longer own 1160's the software wouldn't do me much good now.

On 4/1/04 10:43 am, "DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com"
<DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> Message: 7
>  Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 22:18:04 -0600
>  From: Cort Anderson <stats@...>
> Subject: Re: Re: DYI 1160 Head Replacement
> 
> 
> On Saturday, January 3, 2004, at 07:44  PM, jim hayes wrote:
> 
>> Some years ago I too bought the manual, but Epson absolutely refused
>> to sell me the two floppies that only run on Win98 to do the aligning.
> 
> I should have done this in the first post. Here are the links to where
> I bought the manual and the software, you can pay and download them
> immediately http://www.2manuals.com . I found the parts at
> http://www.atlex.net , e-mail them and they will send you a PDF with
> exploded views and their part numbers. There are a couple of other
> places I found but this looked the best.
> 
> I am not promoting either of these two places just that I found the
> info and parts on them. If anyone has had experience with them I would
> like to hear about it as well as any other sources for parts.
> 
> Cort

An instant and free source of the manual and software is from
http://www.epson.co.uk/repair

All the older service manuals and software is listed here, i.e. for the
1270, 1160, 1200, 1520, 3000 etc, but not current models.

Steve Bell