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Hi Scram
Does this procedure work on a 740i? I put a new cartridge in and the colour
light stays on?
I tried putting the old cartridge back in the printer (because I have a
utility which shows that there was actually quite a bit of ink left in all
three supplies, but no amount of running cleaning cycles or turning off and
on I could do would stop the EMPTY colour ink light from blinking) but
nothing changes. The colour light stays on and nothing I can do now by
cleaning, turning on or off or leaving off for ten minutes an dthen turning
it on will assist.
I have had this printer for about four months and altohugh I have managed
to get it to print black and white and occasionally colour (and on one
occasion, it even printed a color photo) it has never consistently printed
properly, it has always given these presumably incorrect error messages. On
one occasion it told me that the waste pad had filled up and Epson technical
support told me that that meant I had to buy a new printer. I cleaned it
out, downloaded an SSC utility to reset the ink waste indicator (although I
never did find out how it did this and the utility never did tell me that it
had done this??) and the printer then worked for a few weeks (and that was
when it did actually print a colour photo!!!) but now I am back to the
printer not actually working at all on any cartridges whether I am trying to
use black or colour. Is this a case of a defective cartridge or do I have
to windex some clogged nozzles or heads as you suggest?
Someone said that you CANNOT ever put a cartridge back in an Epson printer
when you have taken it out for whatever reason without introducing air
bubbles into the nozzles which you can't then get rid of, AND that waiting
more than a few days with these air bubbles in place will irretrievably
damage the printer because Epson printers are especially susceptible to
drying out the ink around the air bubbles (or the air bubbles themselves dry
the ink which THEN cannot be cleaned). Is this an inherent fault with all E
pson printers?
The SSC utility now tells me (on any number of resettings) that the
cartridge is actually full so I know that the colour light isnt indicative
of an empty cartridge. Will this thing windex or Ammonia clean?
"scram" <scram@anon.com> wrote in message
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> "Sam I Am" <lon@turner.com> wrote in message
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> > I did my first ink replacement of Cyan cartridge on my new epson C84
> > (I'm using Epson branded cart - not OEM). After 10 cleaning cycles, I
> > still get a broken line on the nozzle check. What's even more strange
> > is that the nozzle check pattern on the Cyan is always broken in the
> > same place. I have never seen this occur after cleaning an Epson. What
> > can i do to get this dog to work? Is something physically clogged that
> > I can fix (since it appears in the same place each time.)? Thanks
>
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> With the lid open and the power off, turn the power on and when the head
> swings to the other side pull the power plug.
> On the right side you will see a small pad, this is where the head sits
when
> the printer is off.
> Put a small amount of window cleaner (1cc) on the small pad and plug the
> printer in. Turn off the printer and let sit over night. This should
> dissolve the clog in the nozzles.
> Run a nozzle check the next day, if it didn't work repeat.
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