Re: 1270 not printing

["Rick Cambra" <slp@2xtreme.net>]

My 1270 did the same thing.  I even pulled the heads out to check them.  It
went through the motions, but just wouldn't print. I was out of warranty by
2 weeks.  I pushed cleaning fluid through the heads until nothing but
cleaning solution came out.

Epson gave me another under warranty.  In fact they were kind enough to give
me 3 more before I got one that kept working.

Rick Cambra


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Frost" <bobfrost@btopenworld.com>
To: <epson-inkjet@leben.com>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 6:03 AM
Subject: 1270 not printing


> Eddie, Powell, or anyone else who has an answer,
>
> I've got two 1270's. One is fine; but the other is behaving very
strangely.
> It stopped a while ago with all lights flashing. Following the previous
> advice on-list, I cleaned and lubed the rod, pressed both buttons while
> switching on and then holding the cleaning button in for 10 secs.
>
> That has returned the printer back to normal but for one slight thing; no
> ink comes out of the head during printing!! It moves over the paper
properly
> where the printing should be, so it's clearly getting all the image info,
> but nothing is coming out of the head while printing.
>
> I've removed the pizza-wheel plate and can see that ink is coming out of
the
> head during a cleaning cycle, and I can see the vacuum pump pull the ink
> down into the tank. The tank has hardly any ink in it and the pads are
> mostly clean and dry to the touch (the printer has not been used much), so
> it can't possibly have stopped for a full waste tank.
>
> So if ink can be squirted out during a cleaning cycle, why not while
> printing?
>
> Is there any other magic sequence of buttons that switches on the print
head
> for printing?
>
> Any ideas gratefully received.
>
> Bob Frost.
>
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