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Subject: [Leica] Printer problems
From: ric at cartersxrd.net (RicCarter)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 12:10:56 -0400
References: <5BC37B1B-A404-4A37-B2F1-BE2DBE253AB1@gmail.com> <d209822a-3eca-6812-9e84-4f68d460a411@innerside.demon.nl>

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
>> 
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