I don't use my 1280 every day. Every few days I've run it thru it's
nozzle check. However, I've read that all you have to do is power up
your printer to avoid clogging. You don't have to do the nozzle check.
Is that true? I'd like to save paper.
Empedocles wrote:
> I don't use my 1280 every day. Every few days I've run it thru it's
> nozzle check. However, I've read that all you have to do is power up
> your printer to avoid clogging. You don't have to do the nozzle check.
> Is that true? I'd like to save paper.
>
Are you and have you always used Epson ink? If so then that is correct.
On Jun 20, 2:29 pm, measekite <inkysti...@oem.com> wrote:
> Empedocles wrote:
> > I don't use my 1280 every day. Every few days I've run it thru it's
> > nozzle check. However, I've read that all you have to do is power up
> > your printer to avoid clogging. You don't have to do the nozzle check.
> > Is that true? I'd like to save paper.
>
> Are you and have you always used Epson ink? If so then that is correct.
The only clogging problems I've had were cleared up with one or two
cleanings. Nothing serious. For the past yr & a half, I've used non-
Epson inks with no more problems than with the Epson inks. That is a
non-issue with me. The issue I'm writing about is whether it's
sufficient to keep my 1280 clean by just powering it up every so
often, rather than running a nozzle check that uses up paper.
Empedocles <dwerner@bresnan.net> wrote:
>On Jun 20, 2:29 pm, measekite <inkysti...@oem.com> wrote:
>> Empedocles wrote:
>> > I don't use my 1280 every day. Every few days I've run it thru it's
>> > nozzle check. However, I've read that all you have to do is power up
>> > your printer to avoid clogging. You don't have to do the nozzle check.
>> > Is that true? I'd like to save paper.
>>
>> Are you and have you always used Epson ink? If so then that is correct.
>
>The only clogging problems I've had were cleared up with one or two
>cleanings. Nothing serious. For the past yr & a half, I've used non-
>Epson inks with no more problems than with the Epson inks. That is a
>non-issue with me. The issue I'm writing about is whether it's
>sufficient to keep my 1280 clean by just powering it up every so
>often, rather than running a nozzle check that uses up paper.
No you don't need to run the nozzle check.
On Epson printers the head cleaning cycle and nozzle check are independant of
each other.
So when the printer runs a head cleaning cycle the heads will be kept in good
condition.
In my opinion you only need to power up the printer once a week or thereabouts,
it will run a cleaning cycle and that's all that is required.
Only run a nozzle check if you are getting poor print quality, the check will
show where the quality issues are.
On Jun 20, 4:19 pm, Tony <tonythebengalti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Empedocles <dwer...@bresnan.net> wrote:
> >On Jun 20, 2:29 pm, measekite <inkysti...@oem.com> wrote:
> >> Empedocles wrote:
> >> > I don't use my 1280 every day. Every few days I've run it thru it's
> >> > nozzle check. However, I've read that all you have to do is power up
> >> > your printer to avoid clogging. You don't have to do the nozzle check.
> >> > Is that true? I'd like to save paper.
>
> >> Are you and have you always used Epson ink? If so then that is correct.
>
> >The only clogging problems I've had were cleared up with one or two
> >cleanings. Nothing serious. For the past yr & a half, I've used non-
> >Epson inks with no more problems than with the Epson inks. That is a
> >non-issue with me. The issue I'm writing about is whether it's
> >sufficient to keep my 1280 clean by just powering it up every so
> >often, rather than running a nozzle check that uses up paper.
>
> No you don't need to run the nozzle check.
> On Epson printers the head cleaning cycle and nozzle check are independant of
> each other.
> So when the printer runs a head cleaning cycle the heads will be kept in good
> condition.
> In my opinion you only need to power up the printer once a week or thereabouts,
> it will run a cleaning cycle and that's all that is required.
> Only run a nozzle check if you are getting poor print quality, the check will
> show where the quality issues are.
>
> Tony
> MS MVP Printing/Imaging
I don't use my 1280 every day. Every few days I've run it thru it's nozzle check. However, I've read that all you have to do is power up your printer to avoid clogging. You don't have to do the nozzle check. Is that true? I'd like to save paper.
Are you and have you always used Epson ink? If so then that is correct.
The only clogging problems I've had were cleared up with one or two cleanings. Nothing serious. For the past yr & a half, I've used non- Epson inks with no more problems than with the Epson inks. That is a non-issue with me. The issue I'm writing about is whether it's sufficient to keep my 1280 clean by just powering it up every so often, rather than running a nozzle check that uses up paper.
I live in the desert and when I had the 1280, the easiest way I had to keep
it from clogging, beyond using it frequently, was to wrap it in plastic
trash bag. When the unit was not being used often, put a wet sponge inside
and clothes-pin the plastic bag shut.
This "micro-environment" worked like a champ.
"Empedocles" <dwerner@bresnan.net> wrote in message
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> On Jun 20, 2:29 pm, measekite <inkysti...@oem.com> wrote:
>> Empedocles wrote:
>> > I don't use my 1280 every day. Every few days I've run it thru it's
>> > nozzle check. However, I've read that all you have to do is power up
>> > your printer to avoid clogging. You don't have to do the nozzle check.
>> > Is that true? I'd like to save paper.
>>
>> Are you and have you always used Epson ink? If so then that is correct.
>
> The only clogging problems I've had were cleared up with one or two
> cleanings. Nothing serious. For the past yr & a half, I've used non-
> Epson inks with no more problems than with the Epson inks. That is a
> non-issue with me. The issue I'm writing about is whether it's
> sufficient to keep my 1280 clean by just powering it up every so
> often, rather than running a nozzle check that uses up paper.
I can equally agree with that method as workable. At our elementery school
in Philadelphia (quite humid in comparison to the desert) I've asked
teachers to place their Epsons in trash bags, expel all the air, and put
them in a dark place when school stops for 10 weeks for the summer vacation
for the past 8 years.
For the first 6 years I asked them to enclose a damp sponge as well, but
stopped doing that two years ago when one of the teachers misconstrued the
direction and put the damp sponge into the printer itself. She rusted the
travel bar really nicely and killed the 740. She was a special ed teacher
(no comment).
We have more than 80 Epsons running (740,880, C80, C82, C84, C88+) and
none of them have died of head clogs over the summer from sitting in a bag.
The only thing that has killed our printers, specifically the C84's, was
the Durabrite ink that Epson made for them to run. It destroyed 6 of those
machines within two years using the Epson Ink formula, causing irrevocable
head clogs. Once I switched to aftermarket dye base ink in spongeless
cartridges that I would refill the clogging stopped and the remaining ten
C84s are running.
--
Jan Alter bearpuf@verizon.net
or jalter@phila.k12.pa.us
"Steve Dell" <stevedell@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>I live in the desert and when I had the 1280, the easiest way I had to keep
>it from clogging, beyond using it frequently, was to wrap it in plastic
>trash bag. When the unit was not being used often, put a wet sponge inside
>and clothes-pin the plastic bag shut.
>
> This "micro-environment" worked like a champ.
> "Empedocles" <dwerner@bresnan.net> wrote in message
> news:865edf66-563e-446a-bf79-52c86b79d585@x1g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
>> On Jun 20, 2:29 pm, measekite <inkysti...@oem.com> wrote:
>>> Empedocles wrote:
>>> > I don't use my 1280 every day. Every few days I've run it thru it's
>>> > nozzle check. However, I've read that all you have to do is power up
>>> > your printer to avoid clogging. You don't have to do the nozzle check.
>>> > Is that true? I'd like to save paper.
>>>
>>> Are you and have you always used Epson ink? If so then that is correct.
>>
>> The only clogging problems I've had were cleared up with one or two
>> cleanings. Nothing serious. For the past yr & a half, I've used non-
>> Epson inks with no more problems than with the Epson inks. That is a
>> non-issue with me. The issue I'm writing about is whether it's
>> sufficient to keep my 1280 clean by just powering it up every so
>> often, rather than running a nozzle check that uses up paper.
>
On Jun 24, 4:54 am, "Jan Alter" <bear...@verizon.net> wrote:
> I can equally agree with that method as workable. At our elementery school
> in Philadelphia (quite humid in comparison to the desert) I've asked
> teachers to place their Epsons in trash bags, expel all the air, and put
> them in a dark place when school stops for 10 weeks for the summer vacation
> for the past 8 years.
> For the first 6 years I asked them to enclose a damp sponge as well, but
> stopped doing that two years ago when one of the teachers misconstrued the
> direction and put the damp sponge into the printer itself. She rusted the
> travel bar really nicely and killed the 740. She was a special ed teacher
> (no comment).
> We have more than 80 Epsons running (740,880, C80, C82, C84, C88+) and
> none of them have died of head clogs over the summer from sitting in a bag.
> The only thing that has killed our printers, specifically the C84's, was
> the Durabrite ink that Epson made for them to run. It destroyed 6 of those
> machines within two years using the Epson Ink formula, causing irrevocable
> head clogs. Once I switched to aftermarket dye base ink in spongeless
> cartridges that I would refill the clogging stopped and the remaining ten
> C84s are running.
>
> --
> Jan Alter
> bear...@verizon.net
> or
> jal...@phila.k12.pa.us"Steve Dell" <steved...@comcast.net> wrote in message
>
> news:_b-dndHDuupSk8LVnZ2dnUVZ_sDinZ2d@comcast.com...
>
> >I live in the desert and when I had the 1280, the easiest way I had to keep
> >it from clogging, beyond using it frequently, was to wrap it in plastic
> >trash bag. When the unit was not being used often, put a wet sponge inside
> >and clothes-pin the plastic bag shut.
>
> > This "micro-environment" worked like a champ.
> > "Empedocles" <dwer...@bresnan.net> wrote in message
> >news:865edf66-563e-446a-bf79-52c86b79d585@x1g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
> >> On Jun 20, 2:29 pm, measekite <inkysti...@oem.com> wrote:
> >>> Empedocles wrote:
> >>> > I don't use my 1280 every day. Every few days I've run it thru it's
> >>> > nozzle check. However, I've read that all you have to do is power up
> >>> > your printer to avoid clogging. You don't have to do the nozzle check.
> >>> > Is that true? I'd like to save paper.
>
> >>> Are you and have you always used Epson ink? If so then that is correct.
>
> >> The only clogging problems I've had were cleared up with one or two
> >> cleanings. Nothing serious. For the past yr & a half, I've used non-
> >> Epson inks with no more problems than with the Epson inks. That is a
> >> non-issue with me. The issue I'm writing about is whether it's
> >> sufficient to keep my 1280 clean by just powering it up every so
> >> often, rather than running a nozzle check that uses up paper.
If you would have bought Canon you could then use the superior Canon ink and not have any problems.
Jan Alter wrote:
I can equally agree with that method as workable. At our elementery school in Philadelphia (quite humid in comparison to the desert) I've asked teachers to place their Epsons in trash bags, expel all the air, and put them in a dark place when school stops for 10 weeks for the summer vacation for the past 8 years. For the first 6 years I asked them to enclose a damp sponge as well, but stopped doing that two years ago when one of the teachers misconstrued the direction and put the damp sponge into the printer itself. She rusted the travel bar really nicely and killed the 740. She was a special ed teacher (no comment). We have more than 80 Epsons running (740,880, C80, C82, C84, C88+) and none of them have died of head clogs over the summer from sitting in a bag. The only thing that has killed our printers, specifically the C84's, was the Durabrite ink that Epson made for them to run. It destroyed 6 of those machines within two years using the Epson Ink formula, causing irrevocable head clogs. Once I switched to aftermarket dye base ink in spongeless cartridges that I would refill the clogging stopped and the remaining ten C84s are running.
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