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Epson 1100 Ink not printing

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crowsmack
I love my epson 1100 setup for sublimation. About a month ago I started to experience dripping, puddling and colors not printing. Contant priming would sometimes help, but I still had a lot of issues. I just replaced the tank portion of my system, and the drips and smudges seems to have cleared up and all the colors are functioning well.

My issue is I cannot get my black to print (I think it is just one of the tanks). I have primed and primed and done head cleaning, but with no solution. I've attached a pic, the "B" is supposed to be solid black.

Ideas? Thanks!!

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Is the outline of the "B" a different color other than black. If black was clogged the outline should not print.
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crowsmack
I'm pretty certain it is pulling from a black tank. There are two black tanks, so I'm supposing that just one is having issues?
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Did you print a nozzle check?
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Looks like black isn't functioning at all. Other colors still working great.
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Hi did you solve this problem as I too am having the same problem every other colour works great just not black
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crowsmack said:
I'm pretty certain it is pulling from a black tank. There are two black tanks, so I'm supposing that just one is having issues?
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On the WF1100 In your nozzle check there will be 2 black pattern "blocks", one for each black print head, the CMY is the 3rd pattern block. If one head has trouble you can easily see it.


See the 4 color purge file from this zip archive ..

http://www.inksupply.com/html/zip/purge.zip

After your head clean, if still not working well print a few purge files or you can crop out individual colors in the CMYK file to get a pure color (like black) to purge.
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Thanks for the helpful info! Cobra sent me a new print head which totally fixed my problem. I just have to always turn off the printer and use it often.
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crowsmack said:
Thanks for the helpful info! Cobra sent me a new print head which totally fixed my problem. I just have to always turn off the printer and use it often.
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You changed the printhead or the black cart for the CIS? Changing a printhead is big ordeal.
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I'm not sure if I'm using the right term- the plastic tanks that go inside the printer, that is what i changed. It was hard, the tubes did not come out easily and the plastic brackets holding them on snapped into pieces. Bring on the miracle of super glue.
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crowsmack said:
I'm not sure if I'm using the right term- the plastic tanks that go inside the printer, that is what i changed. It was hard, the tubes did not come out easily and the plastic brackets holding them on snapped into pieces. Bring on the miracle of super glue.
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That's what I thought. Those substitute for the regular carts.

For future reference suggest to at least keep a set of OEM cart or refillable carts so that you can use for later troubleshooting.

If you have a problem with one color then you can substitute your OEM cart set into the printer, if the color lost before returns back, then it is a CIS problem. This can isolate the problem as being either at the printer or the CIS, using known good carts.
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I know the problem was with the printer. I had horrible "splattering" as well before I got things changed out. Yup, I'm probably going to order a whole back-up system to keep on hand, prob even a printer too.
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