[Leica] Printer problems

[leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans)]

Lluis.  I love my R3000 and I have been using Marrutt ink (English company) 
for over a year with no problem.  Perfect color.  Every time I replaced an 
Epson cartridge with the Marrutt, I printed my test print and could never 
tell the difference.  As far as clogging, the R3000 does clog a bit if not 
used.  Since I travel for months at times, I have hooked my printer up to an 
old laptop, installed TeamViewer on it, and every week or so I just connect 
to my laptop and print a nozzle check.  Since doing that, I have never had a 
clog.

To unclog it, just move the print head away from the pad, soak the pad with 
window cleaner, then allow the head to return and turn the printer off for 
an hour or two or a day or so.  Then run a clean cycle and it will most 
likely cure your clog.  Works every time for me.  I started doing that when 
I was the tech person at the high school and we switched from HP to Epson 
printers.  That Fall, when we returned from Summer break, most every printer 
was clogged.  With the old HP's we could just dump a clogged cartridge since 
the new cartridges back then all had print heads included.  Not that the 
HP's clogged much.  But the window cleaner trick would bring them all back 
to life eventually.  Might have to do it a few times, but we never had to 
throw an Epson away due to a clogged head.

Hope this helps.

Aram

-----Original Message----- 
From: lluisripollphotography
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2016 5:21 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: [Leica] Printer problems

I have a printer EPSON STYLUS PHOTO R3000, I do not print every day, neither 
every week. When I?m going to print the first thing I do is cleaning the 
injectors, this time I saw that the Black doesn?t work, I?ve repeat the 
cleaning several times, maybe 4 or 5 without success.

Epson official service said me that it shall be replaced the ?Ink supply 
unit?, and do a replenishment of ink, all this is estimated 350?, but if 
using compatibles ink the total amount can be reduced to 230?, the thing is 
that than there is no guarantee and that sometimes the compatible inks don?t 
work properly ?.

Any experiences with some non expensive compatible inks? or similar issue?

I have to say that I was very happy with the printing quality of my printer, 
it has 3 black cartridge+matte and the range of grey tones was great!

Thank you very much
Lluis