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"zakezuke" <zakezuke_us@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> >The R200's and R300's (and I assume most of the R-series) have what looks
>>like a thin metal X-shaped clamp over the top of the foam pad - presumably
>>to keep it flat and in place. They also have a printhead that moves up and
>>down and (from what I've seen of the way the printers park), they 'plonk'
>>the heads directly onto the gasket; rather than the older method of having
>>the gasket slide up and into place under the printhead. Time will tell if
>> that actually makes any difference to the reliability; but so far if my
>> experience and the experience of others is anything to go by, the
>> R'series
>> are a lot less likely to clog than previous models.
>
> As far as the R series goes.
>
> The plonk action seems to only be used for CDs and the purge cycle, and
> oddly enough for cartridge change. I've not noticed a plonk during
> normal mode.
On mine, when I switch the printer on the heads lift up; move back and
forwards a bit and are then lowered back down. After printing, when
switching off, a similar processes is repeated - the last part being
moving the heads far to the left followed by lowering the heads.
> Now this whole mechnism looks like it's designed to
> operate on hinge and slide into place when the printhead parks. You
> can see the printhead slide to the right quickly, switch to slow
> motion, and slowly pushes the whole waste pan and gasket to the right
> and it slides up.
Indeed - thats part of the process. That's how previous models all (?)
worked - the cap/gasket the slides up and along on a cheap and nasty
plastic-to-plastic slide.
> This unit is also designed to lock into place for
> when printing on CDs. Every once and a while it desides to not do it
> slowly and bashes into it, but that could have just been my printer.
> What might be rare is the hose below the waste pad getting
> disconnected.
>
> As far as the gasket and the foam waste pad, the waste pad does have an
> X-shaped clamp thing, but the foam gasket (I called this thing a wipe
> in the past) seems to be the same old design held in place by just the
> one hook. Unless something has changed in 6 months.
If your refering to the rubber squeege head wiper; (to the right of the head
cap, just right of the gears for the paper feed etc.) then yes - its just a
slice of rubber clamped on at the base. I've never known any problems with
that design though - similar designs in various forms by most manufacturers.
There's a foam soak to the right of the cap/gasket waste pad too - just, as
you say, held in place with one hook. To be honest, I don't know quite why
that is there - I doubt the whole of the head would be able to be wiped by
that (it doesn't look big enough - but then I've not seen the underneath of
a Rseries(s) head to know where the nozzles are exactly). My guess is its
just an excess spray area rather than a 'wipe' as such.
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