I bought a used epson 9600 for printing transparencies. I knew it had clogged heads when I bought it but every used large format printer I came across had clogged heads. It seemed common enough of a problem that I figured I would be able to fix it. Now about 25 cleaning cycles (including about 5-10 power cleans) later and I'm still having the same issues. The magenta print head is still totally clogged... and I get one line out of place in the black head. All I really need is for the black head to work 100%. Silkscreensupplies.com sells black max ink cartridges for my model printer, but only for the black ink slot (on other printers they have black max cartridges for every ink) With accurip I can by pass all the other inks and only print out of the black max cartridge... so i'm not worried about the magenta... but I am worried about the one line out of place on the black nozzle. I've attached a pic so you can see what I mean. (the black is the furthest to the left... the other colors may look black as well but thats cause I had to darken the image so you could see the line out of place)
Other cleaning methods i've tried:
I've soaked the loading pad in windex and cleaned every piece of plastic I can reach around it with q-tips and windex several times. I've also tried rubbing alcohol and vinegar to clean it (a tip I heard about on another site). I tried a technique where I soaked a paper towel in windex and shimmied it under the print head itself, moving it back n forth to clean off the heads.. multiple times. All resulting in the same exact line out of place on the black nozzle.
I've recently bought a cleaning kit off ebay, waiting for its arrival, that says it will clean out any clogged nozzle on an epson. I hope this works but i'm not sure if the line out of place is a clogged nozzle or some other problem.
Any help would be appreciated. This is really holding up my operation and I don't want to have to buy a new printer! What should I do!! Thanks.
Other cleaning methods i've tried:
I've soaked the loading pad in windex and cleaned every piece of plastic I can reach around it with q-tips and windex several times. I've also tried rubbing alcohol and vinegar to clean it (a tip I heard about on another site). I tried a technique where I soaked a paper towel in windex and shimmied it under the print head itself, moving it back n forth to clean off the heads.. multiple times. All resulting in the same exact line out of place on the black nozzle.
I've recently bought a cleaning kit off ebay, waiting for its arrival, that says it will clean out any clogged nozzle on an epson. I hope this works but i'm not sure if the line out of place is a clogged nozzle or some other problem.
Any help would be appreciated. This is really holding up my operation and I don't want to have to buy a new printer! What should I do!! Thanks.