[Leica] Printer and printing advice please

[RicCarter]

I have used distilled water for recalcitrant heads-no harm of it doesn’t work

ric




> On Jan 26, 2021, at 11:41 AM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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