Hi, I needed to make a pcb. I hadn't used the Stylus 460 for atleast 6 months. After a couple of nozzle cleans, the epson test print showed one black line missing. A half dozen more cleans wouldn't fix it. So i put in an old black cartridge after filling it with metholated spirits with a syringe. I did dozens of cleans until the cartridge was empty, but it was still blocked. I refilled the cartridge with "Hardworking Nifti" spray cleaner detergent, and did 20 more nozzle cleans. Now all nozzles work. In linux, i just enter "escputil -c" 50 times (using the Bash shell repeat feature) and leave the printer to do 50 nozzle cleans. When i come back, i just enter "escputil -n" to do a nozzle check.
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Unblocking epsons
2006-05-31 by Russell Shaw
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