Digital BW, The Print

do you know how to release the carriage, on an 1160, to enable moving 
it to the left manually ?

frank wrote:
> do you know how to release the carriage, on an 1160, to 
enable moving 
> it to the left manually ?

There is a big white gear on the left of the carriage - roll the top 
towards you about a quarter turn. That will move the white 
locking tab down - it's visible - to release the head.

Best,

John V.

Only do that with the printer switched off! You can keep it plugged in
though!

Nij

> -----Original Message-----
> From: johnvphoto [mailto:jvlist@...]
> Sent: 12 January 2002 00:06
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: how to move carriage manually?
>
>
> frank wrote:
> > do you know how to release the carriage, on an 1160, to
> enable moving
> > it to the left manually ?
>
> There is a big white gear on the left of the carriage - roll the top
> towards you about a quarter turn. That will move the white
> locking tab down - it's visible - to release the head.
>
> Best,
>
> John V.

Nij, 

Again, I am not a techie....but I believe the tech did say that even with the power off it is risky to move the carriage by hand.  He suggested using ONLY the buttons on front to make the carriage move to the left.  

Steadman

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Nij 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 10:32 PM
  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: how to move carriage manually?


  Only do that with the printer switched off! You can keep it plugged in
  though!

  Nij

  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: johnvphoto [mailto:jvlist@...]
  > Sent: 12 January 2002 00:06
  > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  > Subject: [Digital BW] Re: how to move carriage manually?
  >
  >
  > frank wrote:
  > > do you know how to release the carriage, on an 1160, to
  > enable moving
  > > it to the left manually ?
  >
  > There is a big white gear on the left of the carriage - roll the top
  > towards you about a quarter turn. That will move the white
  > locking tab down - it's visible - to release the head.
  >
  > Best,
  >
  > John V.


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Point taken... but I would guess the risk is relocking the carriage without
the head being properly home (as it sounds like you _may_ have experienced?)

Here is my take on the options (and risks):
1] If you take the approach of 'press the button to tell the printer you are
going to chage the cart' (whilst printer is on) alone then you risk the
printer trying to move the head back to the home position even though you
have a) not closed the lids and b) not finished what you are doing [this has
happened to me, but I don't recall if it was on a 1270 or 1160]. Now that
mnade a bad sound!

2] If you take the approach of push the button to tell the printer you are
going to change the carts... and then pull the power, then 'repowering up'
the printer by pushing the plug back in risks blowing the power supply. Not
a major risk for sure (and I have no firm data one this) - but many people
believe that power supplies on PC's and the like are most likely to fail at
power-on... like light-bulbs. Same with the printer, you just stress a
different component. And remember - PC's are designed to be turned on and
off. Epson printers are assumed to be on and powered up all the time, albeit
perhaps in a kind of sleep mode. I am not a power-supply-design tecchy, but
I imagine that there may be some feature of power supplies that could make
them safer or less safe for powering on. If making them safer involces extra
components, expect them not to be in desktop printers ;)

3] Any method like I suggest with switching the printer off at the front
panel, unlocking the head, moving it, doing your stuff, then returning and
relocking the head. The risk here is that you could in some way damage the
head 'horizontal positioning motor' - but I personally consider this to be
less of a risk than either of the above. As an aside, I have been having
some carriage errors on one of my 1160's - but interestingly not the one I
do this most on... it is however the one that I recently moved to a location
a bit too near a radiator. Whichever way, switching it off and on again
sorts it out.

In all the above, you will note that if you forget to return and lock the
carriage, on power-up, the printer moves the head to the left (as you look
at it) very slowly, then returns to the home / locked position. I don't know
what would happen if the printer head was LOCKED out of the home position
though.

So in summary, it seems to me that Epson have designed 'error correction'
into the printer... just like it does a longer cleaning cycle on power-on,
the longer the printer has been unused for (yes, it really does, based on
noises, etc).

Just my 2p

Nij

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steadman Uhlich [mailto:steadmanuhlich@...]
> Sent: 12 January 2002 14:21
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: how to move carriage manually?
>
>
> Nij,
>
> Again, I am not a techie....but I believe the tech did say that
> even with the power off it is risky to move the carriage by hand.
>  He suggested using ONLY the buttons on front to make the
> carriage move to the left.
>
> Steadman

FWIW, I second Nij's position: It's standard procedure for me to unlock the 
head (power off first), move it, do whatever, then slide it back to the right and 
lock it. Or leave it alone and let Epson park it  on power on- but it takes longer, 
that's all.

Antonis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Nij" <nigel@m...> wrote:

> 3] Any method like I suggest with switching the printer off at the front
> panel, unlocking the head, moving it, doing your stuff, then returning and
> relocking the head. The risk here is that you could in some way damage the
> head 'horizontal positioning motor' - but I personally consider this to be
> less of a risk than either of the above.

I'm not at home, so I can't check this, but the CIS (nomorecarts) 
instruction sheets tell you how to do this. I believe you move the 
carts to the left and then unplug the unit. When you plug back in, 
they go to the right.

Tom O'Connell

TomOC@...
www.thomasoconnell.com


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Steadman Uhlich" 
<steadmanuhlich@k...> wrote:
> Nij, 
> 
> Again, I am not a techie....but I believe the tech did say that 
even with the power off it is risky to move the carriage by hand.  He 
suggested using ONLY the buttons on front to make the carriage move 
to the left.  
> 
> Steadman
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Nij 
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y... 
>   Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 10:32 PM
>   Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: how to move carriage manually?
> 
> 
>   Only do that with the printer switched off! You can keep it 
plugged in
>   though!
> 
>   Nij
> 
>   > -----Original Message-----
>   > From: johnvphoto [mailto:jvlist@h...]
>   > Sent: 12 January 2002 00:06
>   > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y...
>   > Subject: [Digital BW] Re: how to move carriage manually?
>   >
>   >
>   > frank wrote:
>   > > do you know how to release the carriage, on an 1160, to
>   > enable moving
>   > > it to the left manually ?
>   >
>   > There is a big white gear on the left of the carriage - roll 
the top
>   > towards you about a quarter turn. That will move the white
>   > locking tab down - it's visible - to release the head.
>   >
>   > Best,
>   >
>   > John V.
> 
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