A salutary tale that might save someone time and effort :-) You know how car breakdown mechanics will naturally check the fuel tank first before going on to find out why the engine won't start, right ? Well here's an interesting one....
Canon S9000 which has been going fine for years, never had a head clog. Stef goes to print out some course work and the print comes off pink! Hmm, looks like a clog on one of the inks. I do a head test print and sure enough not only is there a few jest blocked on the photo cyan, the whole damned colour is blocked! I take out the ink tank and it's brand new, Stefan had recently fitted it after the last photo cyan ran out. I place it back in, do another test. Nothing. I do a couple of deep cleans and try again. Aha, about half the jets on that colour come back. More deep cleans, another test. This time nothing out of the photo cyan. I'm baffled but what the heck. Out come all the inks, off comes the head (easy job on the S9000). Into a soapy sink it goes. We use 3rd party inks and to be honest I was wondering when the first ever clog would happen. I put it down to penny pinching. Ten minutes later I'm drying the head and back in it goes, 5 colours and the black. Clean, test print. Half the jets on photo cyan are back. Two deep cleans, test. The jets are gone again! Now I'm very baffled. I pull the photo cyan out and take it to the sink and squeeze it. Drops of bright ink dribble out and then - Can you guess what the problem was? Answer soon :) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ---------- http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
