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Epson Stylus 800 print quality
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“I have an Epson Stylus 800 printer which is only used infrequently. I seem to have a problem with some of the jets clogging up after a while producing a banding effect and/or a blurring of text. The built in cleaning cycle does not […]

Epson Stylus Color IIS error light problems
“The error light on the Epson Stylus color IIs keeps blinking. The color cartridge is new. The black and white prints perfect.”
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(From: Robert J. Brancatelli (bronco@mkol2.dseg.ti.com).)
Most likely, the new color cartridge is not seating all the way. Move the print head to […]

Cleaning totally clogged colour head in Epson Stylus Color 500
(From: Colin Guillas (rguillas@nrn1.nrcan.gc.ca).)
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I have an Epson Stylus Colour II printer which had similar problems- this time, which the magenta head.
After running about 50 cleaning cycles, and having no improvement, I disassembled the unit (I am WAY out […]

Canon BubbleJet printers not printing after cleaning
(From: Handy (handy@redshift.com).)
Take out the cartridge that you want cleaned. Find that hole that ink comes out of, squeeze the cartridge until ink comes out of that
hole - actually drips. Put it back in the machine, clean it at least FOUR times. Usually on the fourth time for some […]

“I use a HP680C in the office, and it have two cartridges, one for black and one for color (yellow/cian/magenta?). If the printer fire one drop of each ink at a given point, we can have only 6 different colors (ignoring white and black). If it can fire two or more drops at a given […]

By: Carla San Gaspar
Mention discount printing and a person may think twice about quality, especially with something as critical as working on your marketing materials. Rest assured though that most of these fears are baseless, and larger printing companies with more professional machinery provide prints cheaper.
In printing, a change in the way prints […]

Inkjet Printer Cartridge Type and Reliability
Here are a couple of opinions. (From: Al Savage (asavage@iname.com).)
Having worked at Epson, Canon, and HP warranty service centers, I tell anyone who asks me for advice about buying an ink jet printer to always choose one where getting more ink also gets you a fresh printhead. The number one […]

Why are red, blue, and yellow inkjet primaries?
For a subtractive printing process, the ‘optimum’ primary colors for a 3-ink system would be closer to magenta, cyan, and yellow. However, these are not generally used. Why?
I don’t know the precise answer but it is no doubt a tradeoff between cost and which colors are used most […]

The priming station of a typical ink-jet printer (e.g., HP DeskJet 500C) includes a rubber seal (’boot’) and small pump to actually suck on the end of the print cartridge to free up nozzles (there are 50 or more in a typical print cartridge) that have dried up or become clogged. It may fire all […]