Epson stylus photo 870

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As someone has said elsewhere on this ng if you don't use Epson
printers on a daily basis they do tend to clog up. This has been my
experience also.
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I'm sure it's a contributing factor but I, and other's here, have left
their Epson inkjet's unused, and switched on, for long periods of time and
haven't had clogging problems, so I'm sure that other factors are
involved.

Lola's post seems to confirm that low humidity is a major contributor to
clogging problems.

Jon.
 
Jon said:
Hecate makes a good point in his latest post: does the printer's position
allow the sun to shine on it? Although the temperatures haven't been that
high this summer, we have had a reasonable amount of sunshine and the
printer casing makes a fairly good 'greenhouse'.
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Slight possibility, but not a lot.

It is about 4 feet from a westward facing window, and could maybe get
the sun for an hour or two a day (assuming the sun deigns to visit
during those few hours). Also, it is a CX5200, so it is already housed
under a scanner, in a more substantial unit that it's C82 brethren.

As I said, I've had the heads clog up twice (once very seriously, but
the second time it was mild enough that a couple of head cleans sorted
it out). While this is often enough to be very annoying when it
happens, it isn't really often enough to try too many experiments with
(i.e. it's not adequately repeatable that I can try and play around with
environmental factors and prove whether one or other change in the
environment might make a statistical difference to the likelihood of it
clogging).

I shall bear in mind what people have said, and see how things go from now.

George.
 
Yes, I know. I'm in Hampshire. ;-)
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Ha! So am I! ;-)
Hecate makes a good point in his latest post: does the printer's position
allow the sun to shine on it? Although the temperatures haven't been that
high this summer, we have had a reasonable amount of sunshine and the
printer casing makes a fairly good 'greenhouse'.
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Hecate is the Greek goddess of the crossroads. Guess what your
deliberate mistake was in the first sentence above? <g>

Back to the matter in hand :)

I had an external disk drive freeze up once because I'd left it where
the sun was shining on it. Luckily, it was OK when it had cooled down.
But I think that shows that it's quite likely to be a factor.
 
Yes, I know. I'm in Hampshire. ;-)
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Ha! So am I! ;-)
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Small world! I'm up in the NE corner.
Hecate is the Greek goddess of the crossroads. Guess what your
deliberate mistake was in the first sentence above? <g>
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Apologies! Not deliberate, I can assure you.

The Roman Lares I know of (though they were sexless) but my knowledge
doesn't extend back as far as the Greek crossroads.
I had an external disk drive freeze up once because I'd left it where
the sun was shining on it. Luckily, it was OK when it had cooled down.
But I think that shows that it's quite likely to be a factor.
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Another factor to be aware of, no doubt.

Jon.
 
Do they share the same apostrophe or do they each have one of their own?
milesm
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They each have an endless supply. That's how I was able to get hold of one
so easily.

Jon.
 
In that case shouldn't the apostrophe that belonged to the greengrocers be
in the plural?
milesm
 
So the greengrocers' apostrophe to which you referred originally was
collectively owned by all of them. Or perhaps it was the generic greengrocer
you were referring to, in which case it should have been "greengrocer's
apostrophe".
milesm
 
So the greengrocers' apostrophe to which you referred originally was
collectively owned by all of them.
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Yes, they're held in common and collected daily from the distributor. They
spoil quickly, though, and have to be used the same day. This is why
they're seen so frequently.

Jon.
 
You are now describing many apostrophes whereas originally you referred to
only one that apparently belonged to many greengrocers. Which is it?
milesm
 
You are now describing many apostrophes whereas originally you
referred to only one that apparently belonged to many greengrocers.
Which is it?
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Amusing as it has been, this subject has passed its sell-by date.

Jon.
 
Agreed, especially as we find ourselves back at square 1.

Thanks anyway - and thanks for the advice on managing Epson printers.

milesm
 
Miss said:
By 'cleaning' the printheads you are merely exacerbating the problem. 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.
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I've tried this trick on my 860, but the paper never comes out anything BUT
clean and dry - looks like not even the Windex is getting through.
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.
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That could get real expensive fast when nothing prints from the new
cartridges, and one has to repeat the whole cycle again....

I'm getting more and more tempted to dig out the old dot matrix...

Al Preston
 
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