[Leica] Printer and printing advice please

[Peter Dzwig]

As far as I can see Windex isn't available on this side of The Pond.
What is the relevant ingredient the alcohols or the ani-ioninc surfactants.

If it's the former I imagine that the LUG would suggest a good single
malt as a viable alternative! ;-)

Peter

On 26/01/2021 16:29, Howard Ritter via LUG wrote:
> 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
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