Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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: > > Lluis > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > regards > Meino de Graaf > > 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. >> >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2016.0.7598 / Virus Database: 4591/12345 - Release Date: 06/02/16 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information