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Ant
Hello.
My father's old Epson Stylus Photo 785EPX printer (bought it in a local
retail store when it was new, so probably early 2000s?) stopped printing
blank ink earlier. When printing, we can hear the printer printing but
nothing shows for black color like texts. He hasn't used this printer
for almost a week when it last worked. We even switched to a new
unexpired new ink cartridge (007), but it didn't make any differences.
I tried adjusting the paper thickness, quality vs. speed, cleaning
nozzles, etc. Changing to quality seems to make minor differences (see
light black texts and lines, but they are mostly unreadable). I also
tried printing without the computer connected (USB) and just directly
from the printer's buttons (print ROM information as shown in the
hardcopy manual), and that showed a blank page. I also tried folding a
paper to make the paper thicker (didn't want to waste an envelope) and
printing, and that doesn't seem to help.
Color ink is perfectly fine though. I even tried printing only black and
white (B&W). I also noticed my dad used generic inks instead of the ones
from Epson. Also, the last few months or maybe a year, the printer made
LOUD horrible noises during nozzle cleanups (even after turning on the
printer). I don't know if these are related to the black ink problem or
just old age since he usually use the printer almost daily and a lot.
I don't know if getting a new Epson black ink is even worth trying (very
expensive too) since the generic ones used to work before today (almost
a week ago that last worked) for a long time. We have not tried opening
the printer to take apart and clean the nozzles/heads manually (probably
too much work and tedious). With the old black ink cartridge, I noticed
the black hole does show fresh ink. I assume the cartridges are fine
then. I am hoping there are other ideas to try.
Is it time to get rid of this old printer? Thank you in advance.
--
"It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an
extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully
diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are
notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of
a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one
of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so
than the brain of a man." --Charles Darwin (from The Origin of Species,
1859)
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My father's old Epson Stylus Photo 785EPX printer (bought it in a local
retail store when it was new, so probably early 2000s?) stopped printing
blank ink earlier. When printing, we can hear the printer printing but
nothing shows for black color like texts. He hasn't used this printer
for almost a week when it last worked. We even switched to a new
unexpired new ink cartridge (007), but it didn't make any differences.
I tried adjusting the paper thickness, quality vs. speed, cleaning
nozzles, etc. Changing to quality seems to make minor differences (see
light black texts and lines, but they are mostly unreadable). I also
tried printing without the computer connected (USB) and just directly
from the printer's buttons (print ROM information as shown in the
hardcopy manual), and that showed a blank page. I also tried folding a
paper to make the paper thicker (didn't want to waste an envelope) and
printing, and that doesn't seem to help.
Color ink is perfectly fine though. I even tried printing only black and
white (B&W). I also noticed my dad used generic inks instead of the ones
from Epson. Also, the last few months or maybe a year, the printer made
LOUD horrible noises during nozzle cleanups (even after turning on the
printer). I don't know if these are related to the black ink problem or
just old age since he usually use the printer almost daily and a lot.
I don't know if getting a new Epson black ink is even worth trying (very
expensive too) since the generic ones used to work before today (almost
a week ago that last worked) for a long time. We have not tried opening
the printer to take apart and clean the nozzles/heads manually (probably
too much work and tedious). With the old black ink cartridge, I noticed
the black hole does show fresh ink. I assume the cartridges are fine
then. I am hoping there are other ideas to try.
Is it time to get rid of this old printer? Thank you in advance.
--
"It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an
extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully
diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are
notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of
a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one
of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so
than the brain of a man." --Charles Darwin (from The Origin of Species,
1859)
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/ /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site)
| |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net
\ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: (e-mail address removed)
( ) or (e-mail address removed)
Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.