Digital BW, The Print

I have an 1160 which I bought a couple of years ago to dedicate to quads,
but never ended up using at all.  It¹s been sitting new, unused on a shelf.
Wanting to get back into quad printing recently, I fired it up with new
Epson carts.  Clog city, natch.  After doing EVERY cleaning technique known
to mankind over a one week period, I determined that the yellow head is
permanently clogged.

The question is- is it worth it to buy a new head and
change it myself (from having it done on another 1160 years ago, I know the
local authorized Epson repair place will charge around $200 for to put in a
new head).  Is it worth the effort?  How difficult to do?  It¹s sad because
the machine is new, but I don¹t want to throw out good money with the bad!
Thanks
David Corwin
(excuse the cross post)


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david corwin wrote:
> I have an 1160 which I bought a couple of years ago to dedicate to quads,
> but never ended up using at all.  It\ufffds been sitting new, unused on a shelf.
> Wanting to get back into quad printing recently, I fired it up with new
> Epson carts.  Clog city, natch.  After doing EVERY cleaning technique known
> to mankind over a one week period, I determined that the yellow head is
> permanently clogged.
> 
> The question is- is it worth it to buy a new head and
> change it myself (from having it done on another 1160 years ago, I know the
> local authorized Epson repair place will charge around $200 for to put in a
> new head).  Is it worth the effort?  How difficult to do?  It\ufffds sad because
> the machine is new, but I don\ufffdt want to throw out good money with the bad!

David, I suggest you search the archives for a thread I started on 12 
August 2005 with the subject "What to do with a partially disabled 1160"

I got some very useful responses from other list members, all of which 
have some bearing on your problem.

In short, there are ways to get good black and white prints out of an 
1160 with a bad Y head.

Peter Marquis-Kyle