[Leica] Printer problems

[RicCarter]

I have also successfully gotten heads cleaned on my 2200 by putting a few drops of just distilled water in the little sponge the heads park on

let them soak overnight

ric


> On Jun 2, 2016, at 10:07 AM, Meino de Graaf <meino at innerside.demon.nl> wrote:
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> Lluis
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> A question, do you leave the printer on a powered outlet, or do you physically remove the power from the printer? I'm asking this because I use the same printer and I need seldom to clean the heads, and even after several weeks of not use (up to 11 weeks) the printer works fine. But I always leave the printer in a powered socket. The reason behind this is that the heads of epson printers have a special casket that prevents the heads for drying in, but if the printer is not on a powered socket, the printer won't keep that on the head, so the inks in the heads start drying.
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> Further you mentioned third party inks and cartridges, I use inks and refillable cartridges from www.farbenwerk.com. It is a small hassle, but the saving in inks costs is enormous, however the algoritme used in the chips of these refillable cartridges is less precise, so I have to remember to refill them before they are empty according to the status monitor.
> One thing, you need to be able to create your own printer profiles with FI a Spyder or a similar device. An other issue is that for black and white printing these inks have more metamarisme then the original Epson inks, which is caused by the Magenta ink. I use the Pigmera inks, because I couldn't find any quality difference between these and the Lyson inks. Farbenwerk has now also a number of inksets for pure black and white printing which can be interesting.
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> About the black not working, I don't think that it is caused by the ink supply unit, when that fails (I had that experience) it will spill drops of inks during printing, causing massive streaks on the print. I have the feeling that either the head is dried in or the cartridge was empty and there are now air bubbles in the supply hose. If that is the case 4-5 head cleans are not enough. So you could start with a replacement of the black cartridge. If the head has dried in you could try to get the cleaning station saturated with windex and leave the heads overnight on the cleaning station so the windex solution (or 50%/50% water/Isopropyl) can try to solve the hardened ink.
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> regards
> Meino de Graaf
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> regrads
> On 6/2/2016 2:21 PM, lluisripollphotography wrote:
>> 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.
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>> 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 ….
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>> Any experiences with some non expensive compatible inks? or similar issue?
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>> 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!
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>> Thank you very much
>> Lluis
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