somewhat OT inkjet unclogging.

From: jpero_at_sympatico.ca <(jpero_at_sympatico.ca)>
Date: Fri Nov 24 09:16:47 2000

> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 21:46:36 -0800
> From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: somewhat OT inkjet unclogging.
> Reply-to: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org

Snip!

> and put some 409 cleaner on it; it worked like a charm even on cartridges
> that had sat around for a couple of weeks. I would love to hear if anyone
> else tries it with the same success.

Hmmm...what is the active stuff in that 409? Mind you, this is
Canada and haven't seen one anywhere except in USA. Water seems to
work ok on fresh solids under running water, for old solids takes
some scrubbing. Windex doesn't work too well, alcohol sorta ok.

As Russ have confirmed the cost of epson carriages is nearly 130
where the value of new epson low end 170 leaving you with 40 dollars
worth of whole thing except for clogged head. Not funny and
naturally customers don't want to buy the carrage itself, either fix
the printer or buy different brand (HP, canon or another epson.)

Most customers buy 170 to 250 dollars range epson printers becuase of
"cheap" ink containers actually cost more in long run than HP and to
some lesser degree with Canon.

But yet we want to at least able to repair those plugged up
carragies and earn some cash on it along with pc repair work.

I think working fluid might be ineffective agent at dissolving
solidifed ink. Most of that clogs occurs in nozzles/actators in
epson. Epson use sonic action caused by quartz kickers to squrt ink
out. HP use resistive heating to instantly "boil" ink.

Sometimes we do refill carts and find HP black ink works well on both
epson and canon BJ-01/02. Epson and canon, HP color carts most easy
to fill because the holding tank is made up of simple vented
container and block of felt. HP black ones very fussy due to that
air expansion bag. :-P

Cheers,

Wizard
Received on Fri Nov 24 2000 - 09:16:47 GMT