> Only longer periods of no or very low >usage tends to cause the jet blockages again.
Right, the worst treatment for an inkjet printer is NONE. A cleansing fluid sold alongside the refill inks is carbontetrachloride, or it's health&safety substitute. Industrially a de-greasing agent, also used in dry cleaning. Once upon a time there was Thorpit, spot cleaner for clothing, same stuff. But the inks are water soluble so many products will suffice, the trick is how to get it into the dried up jet ! I have often put a wettened & folded piece of kitchen roll on a plate and patted the cartridge down repetitively to punch moisture into the tubes. But the best results are in an ultra-sonic bath. But that pre-supposes a handleable cartridge and not mounted in the printer itself, had that problem years ago with an Epson, what a bugger that was, endlessly cycling it through it's "nose wipe" routine, even used a solder sucker over the feed tube, but at the time it was within a 3 year warranty so back to maker, Never again. I suggest that for both types one keeps an old cartridge to fill with solvent of choice for these occasions. I have never managed myself to follow another of my recommendations, namely a small daily print exercise that uses all jets. Back then , with the ESC codes one could exercise each jet individually to save pouring ink through already clear jets to great wastage but no longer, now everything is handled by the driver , the printer a dumb slave. I see a parallel to the QL-future? topic, why do something in hardware if it can be achieved in software ?? But are all the thoughts of new hardware about mainboard or addon kit ? When I suggested a survey would lead to some knowledge of what the QLworld consisted and for what. All because I wanted to know what it was and why, fruitless wasn't it ? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.1/310 - Release Date: 12/04/2006 _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
