Digital BW, The Print

We're moving and i need some advice to transport my R220. I have a CIS. How do i prevent the head to get clogged? I'm going to remove the CIS from the printer but the printer may stay unused for a few months. I want to be sure taht when i put everything back together, my nozzles are still cleared. What do i need to do to prevent ink from drying while there are not cartridges in the printer?
Thanks.
PO


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I'm moving and i'm going to remove the CIS from my 220. The printer may 
stay in storage for a while. Do i need to clean the heads before i 
store it to remove the ink in the nozzles?
Thanks.
Pierre-Olivier

I have an Epson 1160 that sat for three years in storage with the old
MIS quadtone carts in it.It took a little work to get it running
again, but nothing major.Basically an overnight windex parking pad
soak did the trick.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Un Globe
Trotteur" <unglobetrotteur@...> wrote:
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> We're moving and i need some advice to transport my R220. I have a
CIS. How do i prevent the head to get clogged? I'm going to remove the
CIS from the printer but the printer may stay unused for a few months.
I want to be sure taht when i put everything back together, my nozzles
are still cleared. What do i need to do to prevent ink from drying
while there are not cartridges in the printer?

> Thanks.
> PO
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Ok, I have an R220, its been sitting here unused since May 2006 with
stock Epson carts.Out of curiosity I fired it up, it prints clean
nozzle checks after doing 3 cleaning cycles.I'd just put some stock
carts in it, run a couple purge prints to get the epson ink in there,
and call it good till your done moving.

Chris

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Un Globe
Trotteur" <unglobetrotteur@...> wrote:
>
> We're moving and i need some advice to transport my R220. I have a
CIS. How do i prevent the head to get clogged? I'm going to remove the
CIS from the printer but the printer may stay unused for a few months.
I want to be sure taht when i put everything back together, my nozzles
are still cleared. What do i need to do to prevent ink from drying
while there are not cartridges in the printer?

> Thanks.
> PO
> 
> 
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Paul,

I've been injecting isopropyl alcohol through the heads on my Epsons 
(2200, 1160) for years when having intractable problems and the 1160 at 
least has been in light use for over 6 years. I know it's not a common 
practice and many users are reluctant to adopt this cleaning method, but 
I guess we can all relax about it now.

BTW, a 1cc plastic insulin syringe is a convenient size and has a tip 
(no needle) that fits nicely on the nipples in the printhead.

Frank
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Paul wrote:

"What I saw an authorized Epson repair person do was take a syringe of 
water,
with a tube connecting it to an Epson printer head that he'd removed from
the printer. He was able to squirt water straight through the head. I
don't know what impact this might have on the head itself."

Paul, who is far more knowledgeable than I wrote:

"What I saw an authorized Epson repair person do was take a syringe of
water, with a tube connecting it to an Epson printer head that he'd removed
from the printer. He was able to squirt water straight through the head. I
don't know what impact this might have on the head itself."

I have conducted this procedure using Windex at various dilutions (with
distilled water) to get rid of "terminal" clogs. My sense of this, supported
by several recent experiences, is that some Epson heads tolerate this quite
well while others don't. I can speak from experience that the head on the
C84, for instance, has a design in which relatively little pressure on the
syringe is enough to displace the barrier between inks inside the head
allowing the colors to mix internally. This is usually a fatal event (for
the printer!). The last time I tried it I had ink from one chamber bubbling
up from the "nipple" on the next one. NOT good. The larger format printer
heads and the older heads seem to tolerate this better. The cheap desktops
like the C-series do not. If you do attempt to force ink, cleaning fluid or
distilled water through the head, please do so with extreme caution. If the
head flows freely this will be less of a problem. If it's clogged with no
outlet for the ink it's likely to be more of a problem. YMMV!

Rick