Epson 890

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Mike Benz

I have an Epson 890 and the heads are all gummed up. I am looking for a way
to either clean them or replace them. Can anyone point me to a tutorial on
removal and cleaning or a product that will clean them or where I can get
replacement heads?

Thanks...

Mike...
 
I have an Epson 890 and the heads are all gummed up. I am looking for a way
to either clean them or replace them. Can anyone point me to a tutorial on
removal and cleaning or a product that will clean them or where I can get
replacement heads?
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Remove the top cover. Move the head over to the left by pressing the yellow
button. Drip/spray some Windex on the foam pad, then return the head and
power off. Let sit for a couple hours. Repeat, only each additional time
first wick the pad clean being careful not to loosen it from it's supports.
 
Mike said:
I have an Epson 890 and the heads are all gummed up. I am looking for
a way to either clean them or replace them. Can anyone point me to a
tutorial on removal and cleaning or a product that will clean them or
where I can get replacement heads?

Thanks...

Mike...
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By 'cleaning' the printheads you are merely exacerbating the problem. You
see, by not using the printer for a couple of months, you have allowed the
ink to dry in the printheads. This has partially clogged them. All the
'cleaning' cycle does is lay down more ink, on top of what's already there,
and makes the issue worse. You now have two choices: -

1) Take an empty cartridge, one of each colour, and fill with Windex.
Replace the carts you have in there with the Windex carts and alternate
running cleaning cycles/nozzle checks until the paper comes out clean. When
the paper is clean, remove the Windex carts and replace with BRAND NEW
ones - do NOT, under any circumstances, replace the ones you removed.
Print a nozzle check. If you don't see anything on the paper, run one
cleaning cycle, to get the ink flowing, and try a nozzle test again. That
should be all that's needed. You shouldn't need to run any more than two
cleaning cycles to get things going again.

2) If you don't wish to fill your own carts, there are a number of
outlets that offer cleaning carts. Just Google for 'inkjet cleaning
cartridges' - you're bound to find a myriad of companies selling them.
Simply replace your existing carts with the cleaning ones and proceed as
above.

Running a cleaning cycle can use as much as a quarter of a cartridge. It
should be used very sparingly - after all, ink is, obviously, money!
 
Thanks. This appears to be working. I did it twice and did a nozzle check
and found a couple of missing lines in the test print. I then ran thru a
cleaning cycle and a nozzle check again and there is one common spot between
the two test prints that is still missing. I printed a picture on plain
paper that is bars of the 6 colors in the printer. I got it from the
manufacturer of the ink system I use (CFS from inksupply.com) and it is a
purge print of each color. It came out a little streaky and I assume tat is
Windex on the heads. I will start up cleaning again tomorrow after work and
when the nozzle check looks good I will run a few 1440 dpi prints on plain
paper of the purge color picture to clean up the heads of windex. then give
a photo a try.

The pad that is there, what is that? It was coming clean with letting it
soak in Windex and dabbing it up. Should this be done until there is hardly
any ink that comes out of it?

Thanks again for the great advice. If all goes well this will save me a lot
of money!

Mike...




Ed Ruf said:
Remove the top cover. Move the head over to the left by pressing the yellow
button. Drip/spray some Windex on the foam pad, then return the head and
power off. Let sit for a couple hours. Repeat, only each additional time
first wick the pad clean being careful not to loosen it from it's
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supports.
 
Safetymom123 said:
Running a cleaning cycle using 2-3% of the ink in the cartridge.
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That's complete and utter bollocks. OK, a quarter might have been an
exaggeration, but it's a fifth at least. I've noticed the ink level go down
noticeably after one cycle with my 895. Get out of Epson's pocket!
 
I am not in Epson's pocket. You are incorrect.


Cerridwen said:
That's complete and utter bollocks. OK, a quarter might have been an
exaggeration, but it's a fifth at least. I've noticed the ink level go down
noticeably after one cycle with my 895. Get out of Epson's pocket!
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