[Leica] printer question

[leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans)]

Bill

Sorry for the delay.  Christmas and all.  Ho, Ho, HO

I just move the heads out of park, like you were changing a cartridge.  I 
can now see the park position and the foam pad.  I take a long dropper filed 
with Windex and then saturate the pad.  Then return the heads to the park 
position and turn the printer off.  Let it set an hour or over night or 24 
hours or whatever, depending on how bad the clog is.  When done fire it up 
and test the nozzles.  If all is OK, I usually take a piece of paper towel 
on a long cotton swab and soak out most of the Windex from the pad.

On some printers, you cannot access the park position easily.  Sometimes, 
when in the cartridge change position, I would just pull the plug on the 
printer, and then you could slide the head out of the way.  Or let the 
printer start printing, and when the print head is in the far position, yank 
the plug and it will stay there for you to access the foam pad.

Repeat if it does not clear the clog.  I remember with those three month 
Epson clogs it took quite a few applications before the head would work 
fine.

Aram

-----Original Message----- 
From: Bill Pearce
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 9:37 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] printer question

For future reference, where does one put the windex and how much?

-----Original Message----- 
From: Aram Langhans
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 9:03 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] printer question

Thanks for the tip.  My 1800 uses pigment inks. We, at times, are gone for
two months and it has had a few clogged jets.  I am able to use Windex to
get them working again.

Many years ago, the school where I was bought a few dozen Epson 740's.
Before pigment inks.  Of course, we shut down for almost 3 months for the
summer and when we got back, just about all of them were clogged.  We had
been using HP printers before, and if they ever clogged beyond repair we
just replaced the ink cartridge, which back then also included the print
head.  I was the tech person for the building then and I got pretty good at
unclogging print heads.  Windex was my friend.  Got almost 100% of them
working again.  But it was a problem every fall when we returned to school.
>From the on, any new printers were again HP with the heads in the 
>cartridge.

A while back, a friend had a 2200 that he had not used for a year or so.  He
gave it to me to get working again for him and I was able to unclog the
heads eventually.  Took a few days of Windex treatment, but it did work
again for him.

Aram


-----Original Message----- 
From: Jayanand Govindaraj
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 9:13 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] printer question

I have been using the Epson R3880 ( one of the 3000's big brothers)
for some years now. Great printer, wonderful prints, dead neutral B&W
- but beware - all Epson pigment ink printer heads tend to clog if not
used regularly, especially with the yellow ink. So I would not
recommend Epson pigment ink printers at all if you are likely to leave
it off for extended periods. Just to clarify - I have been using only
Epson since 2004...and this warning is out of long experience.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> 
wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone is using the Epson R3000. I am thinking of 
> moving up from my R1800.  The reviews of the R3000 are pretty good.  And I 
> like the Idea of multiple B&W cartridges and that you do not have to swap 
> them out and waste all that ink.
>
> How are the B&W images?  I assume the color is as good or better (most 
> likely) than my R1800.
>
>
> Aram
>
>
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>
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