It seems to me that if an Epson sits unused for an extended period of time, it will just require several, perhaps many, nozzle cleanings to clear them (assuming that fresh cartridges are installed).
The Epson 1200 I just bought from a discount house had apparently sat for many months on a dusty shelf, and I didn't even buy new cartridges for it yet. Just an ink refill kit, and just reused the old (nearly empty) cartridges that came with it, and after about 6 or 7 head cleanings it works GREAT. This is likey because the print heads are part of the Epson printer, and permenent, so the print head ALWAYS has ink in it. With other printers, like HP and Lexmark, the print head is on the disposable cartridge so you get a new print head each time. However, I go through periods where I use A LOT of ink and paper, and buying lots of cartridges would be cost prohibitive. Ink jet cartridges that do not have the print head built in are simple, little ink storage containers, and can be reused many, many more times than HP's because HP's print heads are meant to be temporary, like the cartridge, and tend to fail after just a couple of reuses. This makes the Epsons much cheaper for me to use, and the print quality has been outstanding for all 3 that I've had. > > Thank you. I'd like to add, how would a user know that leaving the printer > unused for (lets say) a month will make it go south? The instructions > didn't say so. I've seen other printers (pretty old) that you just plug > them back from being forgotten in a basement and they just work (some > require replacing the ink). What are we supossed to do when we're not going > to use it for a while? Removing the ink would not necesarily solve the > problem. I know that doing a test pattern and cleaning heads would have > prevented that but I didn't know that then. I guess my only mistake was to > buy the printer in the first place. > > -- > ��Liliana�� > > Human is the only specie in the world that kill just for the fun of it, > because they are the only specie in the world who's capable of hate. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Millions of animal species have become extinct because of men, there > was only one time when humans where close to extinction; ironically it > wasn't because of animals. > > > > Dean Arthur wrote: > >> Fellow I know used to work at Bliss Copmputers as repair guru. Said bulk >> of printers coming in for repair were Epsons. And bulk of those problems >> was loss of color or black - probably from standing too long unused. > > > -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
