If it is the same as the 600 series:
- the 'well' is actually a cap which caps the print head when the carriage
is parked...
- The cleaning process dumps the ink into a well, & the platen motor
drives a pump which draws this waste ink into the waste pad in the
bottom of the unit. when the printer's 'brain' decides the waste pad is
full (by counting the number of cleans) the printer stops working...!
the service manual explains how to change the pad & reset the brain
(something about hold this button, infuse eye of newt, and turn it on).
- there is also a little rubber wiper (2 sharp claps!!) blade which is
at the (I think) far end of the carriage run. When this got covered in
ink once, the thing would never print without brown or black lines all
over the page.
davidt
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:12:15AM +0100, Chris Barker wrote:
> 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
>
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