Having a few printer problems.
An Epson 1160, Lyson Fotonics, CIS system, profiled by Thomas Holm for use with Lyson SFA paper. It has always worked beautifully before, no blockages, no tonal shifts, no banding, etc. I run the printer on a separate station, a G3, Mac OS 9.2.2
Yesterday, however, I noticed that prints were coming out with a very slight yellow cast. A test print using Pixl's test image proved this to be the case. I ran a nozzle check print on high gloss paper and noticed that some of the yellow steps were ever so slightly misaligned - only noticeable by careful examination.
I have gone through Prodig's archives, Pixl's website and the excellent printer support pages in MWords' site for solutions. I have done numerous clean cycles, cleaned the underside of the print head using Windolene, done purge print tests, etc. All no to avail. Other than the slightly misaligned yellow steps on the nozzle test printout, the 1160 works absolutely fine.
What I can do to fix the yellow nozzle from firing slightly off target? Is this caused by a blockage of sorts? Should I persevere with the Widowlene cleaning method, or try something else such as using cleaning cartridges? Or is this an Epson engineer repair job?
(I'm in Stockholm by the way, so no UK repairs poss.)
Any help gratefully received.
Tariq Dajani
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