Mike
At the end of the printer head's run is a little "well" with some
absorbent material. I think that the print head dumps a little ink
here during the cleaning process. Obviously this can fill in time.
Try to soak some of the ink up from this well. Tissue or industrial
paper tissue does best for this.
The print head is in the cartridge, for the most part. If it is
covered in surplus ink, that will be transferred to the paper. Take
the cartridge out and clean the nozzles; let the nozzles dry then
replace the cartridges and run a couple of sheets of old paper,
preferable soft, absorbent stuff, through the printer. I normally
don't print on this old paper, I merely press the paper feed button a
couple of times.
I hope that this is successful, but your third-party cartridge(s) might
be the problem.
Chris
On Tuesday, Aug 12, 2003, at 16:52 Europe/London, Mike wrote:
Chris says:
Have your tried cleaning the print heads Mike? Take the
cartridge(s)=20
out and use some spirit to clean them with tissue. Allow to dry
and=20
try again. You probably have not had the printer long enough to
fill=20
the ink cleaning pads at the end.
Do you mean, "Take the cartridges out in order to clean the heads", as
the cartidges themselves are new and seem free of excess ink. The black
cartridge (OEM) has recently been replaced and the problem continued so
I tend to suspect the heads themselves. I have tried the head cleaning
cycle to no avail (and much consumption of ink). Also could you
elaborate about these "ink cleaning pads" From the amount of ink being
spread to the rollers they indeed could be full. I hesitate to remove
the heads because I have no idea what would be involved in
re-alignment.
mike
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