Digital BW, The Print

Hi there

I am suddenly having a problem with my Epson 2100.  Quite often now (more often than not) 
when I send anything to be printed it makes a horrible graunching noise and then all the 
lights flash red.  A power off and on usually clears the problem but is tedious.  Any ideas?  I'd 
love an excuse to have the little 2400 next to my 4800 but perhaps this issue is not so 
terminal....

Thanks

Steve

Steve, it might have to do with paper weight and mechanical wear. Some
have speculated that 2200 (2100) are damaged when heavy papers are fed
through the top slot. I think I've experienced that with my 3 yr old
2200 ... it did accept without complaint for perhaps 25 sheets of
300gsm, but then stopped accepting. It works reliably with 205gsm.   

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Kale"
<stevekale@...> wrote:
>
> Hi there
> 
> I am suddenly having a problem with my Epson 2100.  Quite often now
(more often than not) 
> when I send anything to be printed it makes a horrible graunching
noise and then all the 
> lights flash red.  A power off and on usually clears the problem but
is tedious.  Any ideas?  I'd 
> love an excuse to have the little 2400 next to my 4800 but perhaps
this issue is not so 

> terminal....
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Steve
>

I¹ve always loaded heavy paper correctly through the back but it does sound
like something to do with the paper feeder...

From: djon43 <djon43@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 14:11:11 -0000
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Weird noise then all lights flashing red on my
2100

 
 
 

Steve, it might have to do with paper weight and mechanical wear. Some
have speculated that 2200 (2100) are damaged when heavy papers are fed
through the top slot. I think I've experienced that with my 3 yr old
2200 ... it did accept without complaint for perhaps 25 sheets of
300gsm, but then stopped accepting. It works reliably with 205gsm.




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Hi Steve,
Sometimes a dirty rail the carriage rides on can cause this.  Wipe it 
down with a lint free cloth and the lubricate very very lightly with 
a light machine oil and the lightly rub off excess.
HTH
Paul

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale 
<stevekale@...> wrote:
>
> I¹ve always loaded heavy paper correctly through the back but it 
does sound
> like something to do with the paper feeder...
> 
> 
> 
> From: djon43 <djon43@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@...m>
> Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 14:11:11 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Weird noise then all lights flashing red 
on my
> 2100
> 
>  
>  
>  
> 
> Steve, it might have to do with paper weight and mechanical wear. 
Some
> have speculated that 2200 (2100) are damaged when heavy papers are 
fed

> through the top slot. I think I've experienced that with my 3 yr old
> 2200 ... it did accept without complaint for perhaps 25 sheets of
> 300gsm, but then stopped accepting. It works reliably with 205gsm.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

In my experience this happens when something 
jams the head and some kind of clutch 
mechanism in the printer is forced to 
disengage. Look for paper jams hidden inside 
or, if you are running a CFS look for the 
tubes hitting the drive belt or elsewhere - 
they will easily jam the head, if they touch 
any part of the machine.

Frank

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "kolwicz@..." <kolwicz@...> wrote:

This is exactly how my 1280 behaved when the wiper blade got so gunked up with ink that 
the heads couldn't move across it.

Jim Congleton

Steve:

Sorry to come in late on this, I've been away. I had the same problem  
with my 2200.

The problem, at least in my case, was that the little white knob (or  
lever) holding back the print head was not releasing. It is connected  
to something further back that will have to be lubricated. I went  
gung ho and lubricated everything that looked like it might need it.  
In the meantime I would push down the lever when I wanted to print,  
and it would print. Took a while to get to that point with much blue  
air.

No it's not terminal, and the machine is printing very nicely now  
with no complaints.

Leslie Otterbein

On May 13, 2007, at 4:58 AM, Steve Kale wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I am suddenly having a problem with my Epson 2100. Quite often now  
> (more often than not)
> when I send anything to be printed it makes a horrible graunching  
> noise and then all the
> lights flash red. A power off and on usually clears the problem but  
> is tedious. Any ideas? I'd
> love an excuse to have the little 2400 next to my 4800 but perhaps  
> this issue is not so
> terminal....
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
>