On Sunday, September 9, 2001, at 06:33 pm, Mike Jardine wrote:
> Thought I'd share the results of an afternoon's tinkering with you
> all...
>
> I bought an Epson Stylus Photo EX a couple of years ago to output a
> massive load of work for my Architecture post-grad Diploma, and it
> did that admirably.
>
> Happily it was a month or so after I handed in my portfolio that
> problems developed... The carriage would skip half a page's width,
> accompanied by unhealthy noises, the likes of which I've only heard
> before when a bit of gear selector fell into the gearbox of my Honda
> XL185s motorbike, with the result of total demise of bike.
>
> The printer worked intermittently until recently I could not get it
> to work properly at all, merely growling and clattering and spraying
> ink everywhere. I assumed worn gears and prepared to bin the printer-
> a shame as it has produced some beautiful prints.
>
> A very extensive web search finally gave me a clue- tranverse beam
> (on which the carriage runs) lubrication. A few drops of
> sewing-machine oil appears to have miraculously healed the printer...
> so there.
>
> Does anyone know what lubricant an Epson tech would use and how applied?
Wow - it really is a miracle cure! My dad was about to throw out his
Stylus Photo 700 after buying a Photo 760 (something like that) and gave
it to me saying 'it's a bit flakey and tends to jam a lot' . I tried it
and got the same grinding noises that turn ur teeth on edge, and it spat
magenta ink on my paper, so I found ur mail and dutifully removed the
top plastic cowling and applied liberal amounts of swing machine oil to
the bar. Lo and behold it works a dream. Thanks!
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