On Oct 25, 2008, at 10:07 , John Celio wrote:
Anyone have any other cleaning ideas?
First off, the warnings...
Things not to do.
Do not use Window cleaners, Alcohol, Bleach, Peroxide, Lighter fluid,
degreasers, engine cleaners, mineral spirits or lacquer thinner.
Also do not use force or compressed air as these these can cause
serious damage to the print head.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Print-head-cleaner-cleaning-Epson-1280-R800-R1800-2200_W0QQitemZ380071478400QQihZ025QQcategoryZ16190QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/Epson-Print-Head-Cleaner.-Cleaning-R800-1280-R1800-2200_W0QQitemZ220290174781QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20081005?IMSfp=TL081005104002r5808
The following site is a forum and lets you see how the various users
cleaned their heads. The most useful to me was: This is just
crazy... I purchased an Epson 2100 of a guy that was fed up with
clogging. He sold it for $130(!) He had had it in for service, but was
told that the printer head had to be replaced. Well, I took the chance
and bought the printer and at the same time, I ordered the cleaning
kit from you guys (I found your site after doing some googling). A
printing pattern indicated that two of the cartridges (well, not the
cartridge but the cone-shaped thing underneath the cartridge) were
completely blocked. There was a lot of yellow ink around the yellow
cone indicating that it was blocked. The other one that was blocked
was the light black cone. So I pushed through some solution (by
applying the syringe on the cone - couldn't actually get it to fit on
the cone, but I put some pressure on it and depressed the plunger
slowly) and in no time, it came through on the paper that I had
carefully fed through the paper feeder from the front side (i.e. clog
dissolved!). I then ran 3 head cleaning cycles and did a nozzle check,
and guess what?!?! the pattern was *PERFECT*. I just laughed out loud.
I couldn't believe it. Well, I still can't. I guess I should do some
more printing before I celebrate my best purchase ever! :)
http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/forums/inkjet/20993
Joseph McAllister
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