Re: Upgrade Question

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on 1/22/2002 7:13 AM, Norman Maynard at nmaynard@thorntonfriends.org wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm an amateur (read: "Love of") photographer, working on a fairly
> old PC with an Epson Photo 700 and a Nikon CoolPix 900.
> 
> In the past few weeks, my printer has been behaving very strangely.
> It will begin to print, get a few lines into (or a 1/4 page into) the
> letter or photo or whatever I am printing, then will "screech," slam
> the print head against either side of its travel limit and print
> either nothing, gibberish, or 4 short lines of color and then
> nothing.
> 
> I can clean the heads, sometimes 2 or 3 times, and can usually coax
> it to print out one or two more pages before having to do it all over
> again.
> 
> Frustrating. Anytime I feed it a piece of photo paper, I'm crossing
> my fingers. Not to mention the paper and ink being wasted.
> 
> The printer is 3(?) years old, and in the summer of 200, it acted
> similarly to this and it cost me $70.00 to have it fixed.
> 
> My options seem to be:
> 
> 1) buy two new cartridges and see if that clears it up. (I am on a
> very tight budget I should mention, so if this doesn't work, I've
> thrown away $50.00)
> 
> 2) Clean the heads about 8 times and see if that lasts
> 
> 3) buy a new printer
> 
> 
> I would love anyone's advice here, and thoughts on option 3. I am
> considering the 780, the 820, the 785EPX (which got rave reviews from
> Digital Camera Magazine) or the 890, which seems pretty pricey for
> me. Pro's and cons on these printers?
> 
> Lastly: when I brought the 700 in to be fixed, the woman there asked
> me if I use my printer every day, which I more or less do, but there
> will certainly be times when I do not use it for 3, 4, or even 5 days
> at a time. Is my current problem likely linked to that, and am I just
> going to re-create that problem with a new printer?
> 
> The current troubles began when I replaced a non-Epson black ink
> cartridge (one bought from Red River Paper Co.) with an Epson cart,
> one which had been sitting in my drawer for a couple of months.
> 
> Is it worth the new printer for the advanced technology - i.e.,
> borderless printing, better resolution, more longevity(?) in the
> prints?
> 
> Thanks for any input - greatly appreciated!
> 
> 
> Norman Maynard
> (Feel free to email your response to me directly, though I suspect
> responses may be of interest to others, also.)
> 
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Try putting some light oil on the metal rod/rail the print head travels on.

David

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