Re: Epson R300 black ink head won't clear

Nigel,

I doubt Valueshop will be of much help to you as they are just a retailer
who offer a good price. All you do is replace all your carts with same
colour cleaning cart then run a set of three cleans then a nozzle test, then
another three cleans. If not cleared get hold of a Purge.tiff file which
gives you all six colours and run a number of A4 plain paper through it. It
may take quite a few pages, then again it may clear quickly. I find after
doing all the above to leave the printer unused overight then print another
nozzel test.


"Nigel Andrews" <nandrews2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Shooter,

Thanks for your suggestion, I am in the U.K and will try the website.
I am still not sure how one gets to use a clean cart, but I guess
Valueshop will tell me.

I am aware of the problem with the large sponge in the base becoming
soaked (full) of waste ink. Having partly opened another of this model I
have seen how large the sponge is. It is disgusting to think that Epson
waste that amount of ink no matter how long the printer lasts!
I have used the startup key combination to reset the printer, but the
danger is that eventually the sponge will saturate and ink spill out of
the bottom!

Nigel
P.S. I think someone who could take on printer maintenance/repair for home
users could make a bomb.


"Shooter" <photoman52003-shoot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Nigel,

I am unsure if you are in the UK If so www.valueshop.co.uk do cleaning
carts for Epson R300, the cost is around £2.99 each and you would
purchase one for each colour, If you used just black you would waste good
ink and it's well worth a full clean up while your at it.

You could get hold, or make up an A4 file using black and run it through
the printer several times to see if it will rid the blockage. I would
never clean my R300 more than twice before pulling the carts and
replacing with cleaning carts.

If you have to do a lot of cleaning you should consider the fitting of a
Waste Bottle, this will catch most of any liquid you puch through and
leave your waste pads free from the collection of waste ink. A lot of
people have used the SSC but from my experience I have found it lacking,
far better to get hold of an Epson R300 Service disc you then be able to
rest the R300 should you ever get the "Requires Service " message. Hope
the above helps.


"Nigel Andrews" <nandrews2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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sherwindu


Thanks for that suggestion but I don't know if I can get a cleaning cart
for the R300.

How are they used?
Do I leave all the other carts in a run a clean cycle? I am wary now,
having apparently blown out almost half the capacity of each of the 6
carts in my recent cleaning attempts.
Thanks goodness they weren't Epson ones or I would really be smarting
now!


Thanks
Nigel


"sherwindu" <sherwindu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Nigel Andrews wrote:

Any suggestions for clearing a black ink problem?

I have tried the regular clean cycle twice and the print pattern is
much
worse now than before.
I have changed the cartridge and the pattern was different but still
very
poor (about 5% of what it should be)!

I have used the SSC utility that is knocking around on the Net, but
not
again!! This maybe should be a warning.

I used the selective black only head clean three times which made no
difference except it sucked about 50% out of black and emptied two of
the
colours that were at around 80%!!!!

The black cartridge was replaced only a few days ago and printed fine
right
afterwards.
The colours are still fine though I have had to replace the two that
were
emptied!

Any thoughts please?!

Thanks

Nigel

Sometimes this can be fixed with a cleaning cartridge if one is
available
for your
printer. It is basically an empty cartridge that you fill with a
cleaning
solution. I
said 'sometimes' because it didn't completely fix my cyan cartridge
after a
few
cleaning cycles, but it may work for you.

Sherwin D.










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