Well, the EPS 820 did not, and the R200 does. You can tell the
difference by just looking at the cleaning pad. The R200 has a sealing
gasket around it that the head presses down against. You can also see
the pump if you look into the right front corner of the casing. Maybe
the 1200 series had that but the consumer photo printers did not and
they were notorious cloggers. Anyway since I now have the R200 I hope
that it does not have the clogging proplems I had with the 820, I did
find a way to mostly work around it but it was a bit of a hassle.
graywolf
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mike wilson wrote:
Powell Hargrave wrote:
I think all Epson ink jet printers have a vacuum pump to suck ink
through
the heads to clear clogs. I know all the older ones do.
Powell
There's a pump to pull the waste ink away from the head sponge into
the waste ink receptacle at the bottom of the printer but I don't
think it actually sucks (sorry, ENR)ink from the head. There is a
function to make the print head run full speed (for want of a better
description) to try to blow ink through all nozzles.
Godfrey's 1270, the 1280, and most of the higher end consumer Epson
printers all have it.
Herb...
