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Photog,... The part you are looking at is the guard lip on the purge unit. The white bar behind where it goes is the locking lever that is supposed to keep the printhead in place when powered off. During shipment the lever is up. It appears that there was a large jolt to the printer as if...

309carpug,... The printhead is made up of many banks of nozzles. Nozzles come in pairs or banks. Look at your Cyan and Photo Cyan prints. The darker is the Cyan with 5 picoliter ink drops and the faint one or the Photo Cyan is made up of 1 picoliter ink drops. Looking at your magenta...

Grandad,... thanks for the info about Canonfodder,... I remember many of the great posts that he made. Where is he these days. Anyway, your comment about the picket fence being a clog is Right On. I felt the same way at the instant I saw it. By as usual I did not give up and proceed to...

Websnail,... I think this is a fantastic idea that Epson is working on. Someone needs to challenge HP and their OfficeJet printers. The cost of their ink and the cost to use their printers is "Outrageous". I did a calculation on it and it came out to be about $7,560 per gallon of ink. Fro...

Grandad,...Great to hear from you. It has been awhile for both of us. One of the major printhead problems that got me searching for more answers was the famous "Hens Teeth" pattern in the nozzle check. I have seen this posted by many people and I've had the problem and still have that...

Websnail,...Yes,.. I got lucky and got my hands on 15 iP4200 printers, all with good ink. From time to time I sell one, but because of this total economic colapse, I may just hange on to them awhile. They are terrific printers and the print quality and resolution is the same as my...

pipinof,... Because I have so many printers to work on, I buy ink in large quantities. I do all of this as a hobby so I don't want to spend money on extra ink carts when I have many dozens of them, and the Canon ink carts are made so good it is just to easy to flush them when they get old. I...

For those of you reading this post, I have decided not to list my Repair Manuals on eBay for awhile. I have found that the listing cataglories on eBay are so large and inclusive, my listing can get lost among 1000's of printer listing, and the people that are really looking for it can not find...

Now that many of the Master have cast their votes for this process, I felt it was my turn to offer my own opinion. I read each and every post as close as possilbe, looking for information that would help me decide about this process. It is hard to change something you are doing when you've...

duanebluhm,... There are very few Epson Service Manuals available anywhere. However, your ink problem could just be one needing cleaning. There are many excellent suggestions on this web site for Cleaning Espon Printhead. Search for them. Also, go to the "Fixyourownprinter" forum and do...

bldrgem,... The Service Manual for the S9000 indicates that the 7 orange flashes, then solid green,...repeat,.. is a Cartridge error or Printhead error. Probably causes are; A) Printhead Temperature out of tolerance. B) Check Sum error in EEprom inside of Printhead. Like Canon said...

gphj68,... Sounds like you have a simple partially clogged black printhead. Try these fixes one at a time (if you haven't already fixe the problem by now). 1. Run several deep cleaning cycles on "Black". After each cleaning cycle print only a nozzle check and examine it very closely. If...

Stuber,.. a lot has happened to me in the last several months, including Gastro-internal blockage, Pnemonia, and finally several weeks ago to get a 5th Stent put into my Heart. I'm in great shape now but I had a 95 % blockage in the primary artery to my heart. I was good as new once I got...

I'm posting this story so that it may help others with similar problems that this person had with his printer. He is not a registered poster and initially contacted me via email address. To be accurate in this note I have used his emails where it can help explain the problem. I will also use...

Percyvere,.... Send me an email with your address and I can return the information to you. It is too much to post to this site.

Romakpect,.... I would suggest that you never take your new printhead apart again. If you print as much as you say you do, you need to keep the head clean. Printing will keep the ink inside the printhead wet, put with all the printing you do, your ink carts are going to have problems. At one...

Roland,... The MP780 is the upgraded version of the mp730, and I have a lot of experience with the MP730. I don't have one of the MP780's but I have the detailed pictures of the guts. When you say you can't get the ADF open, I can't understand what you mean. If you have the User's Guide...

dan_uk_1984,...Just a few words of warning. You should be very causious about printing half a page of a solid color, especially if you have been seeing problems with any of your colors. My first RULE is I always try and resolve any printing problem by doing only nozzle check prints and/or...

Smile,... The hot water is not a problem since it cools very rapidly once you put it into the printer and by the time you get it ready to print. Also all you are printing is the nozzle text and that is only firing each nozzle for a very sort period. To create a inkjet bubble, the heater...

It has been a long time since I've posted to this thread, and there have been a few changes in the process that I use to clean printheads. After many discussions on this thread and from other experts on this web site, I still feel that the process I use for type #2 and #3 are correct. However...