Printing problems...

[Alan Roberts at work]

Last night I nearly blew a gasket. My Epson 750, hitherto 100% reliable, started printing colour pictures with a heavy magenta tint to them. Operating in my normal way (what did I do last, could that have caused it), I managed to whip out the brand new Jessops colour cartridge and scapped it. But, gebuine Epson cartridge did the same. So, I ran the unhelpful Help CDrom, then remembered the status monitor. The only way I could find to get into it was to start a print run and navigate from the selection dialogue. I ran all the tests. It turned out that the yellow nozzle was completely blocked, and the two magenta nozzles were partially blocked. It took two nozzle clearance runs to fix it, followed by a nozzle alignment. Now, all is well, and I have a completely unused Jessops colour cartridge in the bin (there's no way I'm putting it back in now, it might have caused the problem).

Run the tests from time to time, it might prevent problems like these.

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alan@mugswellvillage.freeserve.co.uk. Delete village for a spam-free diet.

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Don't you ever go home Alan? I blew up a epson pro last year with good old jessops. I had to buy the 900 to replace it. I swore from then on only to use epson inks, even at their silly prices.

Regards, Lou

[Alan Roberts at work]

Certainly do go home, most lunch times and after about 17.45. But connection at the office is free (cavey chaps, a beak's approaching down the corridor, ducks and hides under filing cabinet).

[ddmurphy]

Alan

Have you been reading Billy Bunter again! http://www.dvdoctor.net/cgi-bin/ubb/smile.gif
Take 100 lines.

David

[Alan Roberts]

I can draw lots of nice pictures with 100 lines. Ta.

BTW, anyone want one opened Jessops Epson 750 colour cartridge, used only for a few secons? And one unopened one? No charge, just postage.

[This message has been edited by Alan Roberts (edited 24 February 2001).]