Epson 3800 & Replacement Inks?

[sanking]

Incidentally, I produce a white paper on preventative care and self-repair of Epson large format printers.

regards,

Jon Cone
InkjetMall

Jon,

I had a look at your white paper on care and self-repair of Epson large format printers and it has a lot of useful information. One thing has me confused, however. In your white paper you stress the danger of paper fibers in blocking the nozzles of the print head. Yet in one of the videos on the maintenance of printers on your site it is recommended to clean the head by placing the cleaning fluid on a sheet of Bounty paper towel and rubbing this over the head. If paper fibers are the danger you suggest it sure seems to me that rubbing the head with a paper towel would be a very big risk.

Sandy King

[joncone@cone-editions.com]

We recommend Bounty not because it's the "quicker picker uppper" but because it has so little lint in comparison to other papers. The cleaning with the towels removes lint build up as opposed to putting it on. The towels should be dampened with cleaning fluid and the contact should not be so hard as to tear the towels.

If you could get to the heads, a foam swab would be ideal.

Jon