Simon, my experience with my printer, an old Epson 700, is that if you are running cleaning cycles and you don't see an improvement after consecutive cycles that your best leaving it to "soak" for at least a few hours (turned off is fine), running a nozzle check and comparing it to your last one to see if its improved, usually it has. Then run more cleaning cycles etc. By the way- as long as you don't leave the nozzle cleaning program, each clean that you do will get progressively more aggressive and of course use more of your ink up till about 6 consecutive cleans which is the most aggressive. You may find at that stage that you might have small amounts of ink splashing around the R.H.S. of your printer. Obviously this is not much help if you have to print something urgently, right now, the client is breathing down your neck etc. By far the worst clogged nozzles I've seen came from my fathers Epson photo stylus 700. For some reason he took the cartridges out whilst he was on holidays leaving the machine empty. I found the printer a day or so after he left with the cartridges beside it. With Epsons you need to keep ink in the channels/pipes/whatever all the time or they dry out and cause problems (as this one did). On reinstalling full cartridges the machine was well and truly "constipated" with only a few nozzles working. A half dozen cleaning cycles later most of them were still blocked, and I gave up. Lo and behold on coming back to it a day later- a lot of the nozzles had unblocked themselves. I gave it a couple more cleans and left it again for a day. Again more nozzles had unblocked themselves. This went on for a week until it was as good as gold again. B.T.W., I very rarely have any problems with clogged nozzles, it's nearly always an empty or near empty cartridge- and I refill with Resolution Inks. Good luck, Frank Frank Styevko Photography, Australia
----- Original Message ----- >From: "Simon Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 10:33 AM >Subject: [PRODIG] Dirty Nozzles? > Help > > Ive just used up about 30% of a new set of cartridges cleaning the nozzles > on my Epson printer using the recommended procedure. Surely there must be a > better and cheaper way to do this? > > Would it be better if I flushed the nozzles regularly, say every 20 prints > or so? I usually wait for a deterioration in print quality beforehand...... > > > Any advice most welcome > > > > > -- > Si Barber > > www.sibarber.co.uk > > > Tel:07739 472 922 > > =============================================================== > GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE > =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
