> Epson's, use'em or lose'em. That's just the way it is. I've never seen any > other printer that can equal the output of an Epson. I made the mistake of > trying to conserve with my old Epson 600 and paid the price of a clogged > printer. You should at least print the test pattern once a week with older > Epson's, the new ones use a ton of ink for the test pattern. I don't know > what was wrong with the old test pattern of fine parallel lines. I've been > using ink4art.com cartridges for 2 years in my 740 with no problems at all > but it's used virtually everyday. The free 820 that came with our eMac is > also been trouble free but we use fairly often too. There are dead head > cleaner cartridges available for most Epson's. > > Craig > Apple IIc, LC, 6200/75, 6400/200, 9600/G4-400, iMac/400DV and eMac/700 > "Make mine a Macintosh please" >
A couple of times, if I haven't used one of my Epsons for several weeks (or several months), I've had to go through the head cleaning process 8 - 10 times before I got a clean test pattern. From any application, go to File in the menu bar, then choose PRINT; when the print dialog box comes up, one of the choices in the upper-right corner will be utilities (mine shows a wrench icon), and some of the utility choices will be to clean the nozzles, print out a test pattern, check the ink level in the cartridge, etc. Just go through the nozzle cleaning utility until you can print a good test pattern; you clean the nozzles, then choose to print a test pattern. Repeat until you get a good pattern. If the printer has been sitting for a long time, it may take 8 - 12 cleaning passes to clear it. Once it prints a good test pattern, just cancel the print job. I don't know if a printer can sit long enough to become permenantly clogged, but I've never heard of it happening... Make sure you have ink in the cartridges, of course. The output of some of the Epsons is just outstanding for a desktop printer, not matched by any other brand of inkjet printer, IMO. BTW, you cannot get 'photo quality' prints from *ANY* brand of printer on plain copier paper; that requires much better quality 'photo paper'. Try printing the same photo on each kind of paper, side-by-side, and you'll see what I mean. The more expensive the paper you use (higher quality) the better the print can possibly be. Photo paper can get expensive at Office Depot and the like, but there are hundreds of places to buy it cheaper on the 'net. Powermac 9500 G3 300, 376MB Epson 860 & 1200 -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:pci-powermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
