Clogged Epsons flushes like clappers.!

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quote="Arthur Entlich" you understand that in spite of m
years of faithful
service to Epson owners, helping them to unclog and resurrect thei
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printers, why Epson won't even officially acknowledge my existence
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Art, that is totally un-fair, you have helped many a people and n
doubt many are grateful, I have experienced Epson Technical and it'
quite a challenge when they get you to waste new Epson ink tank'
with try this and try that....all the while the telephone bil
mounting, when a E-mail to Art solves it less than half the expense

Obvious Epson wants to sell printers not revive them, is it that the
may be a little envious of your success or method

Keep going Arthur, many a people are thankful for people like you

Dav
 
Luckily, I don't do it for Epson's sake. It's mainly to help the owners
and the environment, both of whom deserve more attention.

Art
 
I have experienced Epson Technical and it's
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Any mfr. whose problems with their product are so widespread, and
whose tech. service gets so many complaints, ought to
be worried that customers start voting with their feet.
Even Lexmark sound better than Epson, and that's saying something.
 
Any mfr. whose problems with their product are so widespread, and
whose tech. service gets so many complaints, ought to
be worried that customers start voting with their feet.
Even Lexmark sound better than Epson, and that's saying something.
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THAT IS SAYING BULLSHIT
 
Arthur said:
Luckily, I don't do it for Epson's sake. It's mainly to help the
owners and the environment, both of whom deserve more attention.
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OH YEAH DA KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOUR. DA NITE OF DA ROUND TABLE
 
I think the situation has been exaggerated if Lexmark sounds better than
Epson. Let's not get completely crazy now ;-)

Art
 
Am I right in thinking the sponge gets rid of air bubbles so there i
no air lock etc, you can imagine shaking a bottle of fluid you ge
bubbles, does a sponge stop this...

I was thinking if the ink tanks are whizzing up and down at a rate o
knots in the printer the sponge might filter the air, is this th
purpose of it..

Dav
 
Am I right in thinking the sponge gets rid of air bubbles so there is
no air lock etc, you can imagine shaking a bottle of fluid you get
bubbles, does a sponge stop this...?
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AFAIK the sponge is there to hold the ink. Although the
head and tanks appear to move fast it is unlikely to be fast
enough to entrain air in the ink, the printer mfrs take head
movement into account. When the tanks are almost empty
is another story.

What people do wrong is store cartridges upside down, so that
residual air in the cartridge is around the outlet, no wonder they
get airlocks when fitting new cartridges. Storing cartridges
on their side is almost as bad, for the same reason. Once
air is trapped in the wrong place it's difficult to shift it.

So always store cartridges outlets down, as oriented in the
printer, and as packed by Epson, when on their card hanger in
the shop.
 
Any mfr. whose problems with their product are so widespread, and
whose tech. service gets so many complaints, ought to
be worried that customers start voting with their feet.
Even Lexmark sound better than Epson, and that's saying something.
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Very true!! In fact, I got so tired of screwing around with an Epson CX5400
trying to get it to print properly after changing ink tanks on two occassions
that I just set it aside and went out and purchased an HP. t's the Goodwill
store for the Epson, which is less than 3 years old. HPs may not be the
greatest, but I've never had a moments trouble with the three I've had. At
least, if the heads get stopped up it's no big deal and I've never been bothered
with bubbles!
 
I'm not sure which sponge you are speaking of, if you mean the one in
some cartridges, I would say no, not exactly.


All Epson current cartridges (single color) are without any batting or
sponges, so they figured out a way around that problem.

The main reason for the sponge was to hold the ink so it doesn't deliver
too rapidly to the heads., or worse yet, leak terrible. It was a
natural, but unsophisticated damping system. It allowed the ink to
drain slowly and replace as it was used. The problem is a lot of ink is
wasted in a sponge and toward the end of the life often cartridge you
might start getting banding problems, as if a clog had developed, but it
was just a low fluid level in the cartridge.

The new cartridges use a quite complex series of chambers, and a small
semipermiable membrane and a air transit valve that only stays open when
the cartridge is engaged.


Art
 
"Mi brain cells have now been reformatted, thank's
everyone",
...."here that stuff of yours Art, does it work on clogged brain
cells"...???

Davy
 
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