Re: Epson spares [was 1270 not printing]

["Bob Frost" <bobfrost@btopenworld.com>]

Powell,

Since my last posting, I've dismembered my faulty 1270 which now covers my
table! It was worth it just to see the enormous ink waste-pads which take up
most of the space in the black plastic tank that forms most of the underside
of the printer, and had far more ink in them than I would have thought.

I had also decided that swopping the electronics assembly between the good
and bad printers would show me whether it was a print-head problem or an
electronic problem (I don't want to touch the print-head because of the
realignment problems). That's tomorrow's job.

However, you might like to know that on the Epson UK website under
www.Epson.co.uk/spares, you can download a spares guide for each Epson
printer that gives exploded diagrams of all assemblies and parts with
numbers, and you can also download the complete Epson price list of spares
(all 530 pages) and look up the cost of the spares for your printer. The
list gives the prices in pounds and dollars.

I can't find a service manual yet though, and the Service Agent I spoke to
yesterday said they can't supply them either.

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Powell Hargrave" <hargravep@shaw.ca>
>
> Hmmm.  Very interesting.  If the head is still producing ink then there
> must be some type of failure in the control electronics.
>
> I now have a working 1200 and if I didn't have a bunch of printing to do I
> could be tempted to start swapping components to see what is and isn't
> working.  But I'm also not at all sure that I wouldn't end up with two
dead
> printers. :(
>
> If you do get yours repaired try and get as much info as possible to pass
> on to us.


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