[Leica] Printer and printing advice please

[Howard Ritter]

I have one, and have successfully used Windex sprayed on the print heads and left to sit a while before running the Head Cleaning routine, perhaps repeating the cycle several times. Well worth the effort for this pricey and capable printer. Once it’s running again, make a point of printing a head alignment test sheet every week. It consumes very little ink and it keeps the ink from becoming inspissated in the nozzles.

—howard

> On Jan26, 2021, at 1108, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> It is a fantastic printer, so worth the effort. I had two of them, one
> after the other. Go to an Epson repair centre and get an estimate of what
> is required to get it functioning - if it has a badly clogged head, you
> might not be able to do much, but replace the heads, which would cost about
> 40% of the original cost of the printer. There are other accepted ways to
> try and release the clogs from the print heads, usually with ammonia based
> compounds like Windex, but I have never done it. You can google for
> hundreds of hits of advice for this!
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 9:17 PM Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Some years ago I bought an Epson Stylus Pro 3880. For various reasons it
>> never got more than a couple of dozen prints through it. Can anyone tell
>> me whether or not it can be put back into service after a long (4 yr)
>> hibernation and what it would likely take to do it?
>> 
>> I really only want to use it for B&W, but may occasionally need colour.
>> 
>> TIA
>> 
>> Peter
>> --
>> 
>> Dr. Peter Dzwig
>> 
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