MP500 again - purge problem?

[PeterBJ]

Do you also have the rubber gasket? If so, could you check if it is marked "1-60" on the underside? If it is, it is most likely identical to the iP4000 gasket.

 

[The Hat]

Do you also have the rubber gasket? If so, could you check if it is marked "1-60" on the underside? If it is, it is most likely identical to the iP4000 gasket.

Who has the rubber gasket, and where is this rubber gasket located ?

 

[PeterBJ]

The rubber gasket is the part that holds the porous plates, so it it located on top of the purge unit.

But you don't need to look for it. I have just finished cleaning the purge unit on an iP4200 and have had the gasket and the plates removed for cleaning. The parts were identical to the parts from the iP4000, except the gasket from the iP4200 was marked "3-56". I guess this is some tool ID code, so I guess the parts will also fit the MP500

 

[The Hat]

@PeterBJ You’ve got me thinking now and I wondering if the print head carriage on the 4200 be compatible with the 4700, it will fit but will it accept the different codes ?

I hacked the carriageway on my 4700 to bits to accommodate the CLl-8 carts and I was thinking of using the 4200 one as a backup.

The gasket on the 4200 has the code No. 3-66..

 

[PeterBJ]

I just checked the iP3600 which I think could be called a discount version of the iP4600/4700, and compared it to the iP4200. The print head carriages are different. The iP4200 has a locking lever at the left side of the print head carriage when seen from the front. The locking lever goes around the print head carriage in the iP3600.

Another and more important difference is that two ribbon cables connect the print head carriage to the logic board on the iP4200; in the iP3600 three ribbon cables are used.

There is one more difference: The iP4200 print head carriage slides on a polished steel shaft, the iP 4700 print head carriage slides on a bent sheet metal rail. So the print head carriages are totally different.

The number on the underside of the rubber gasket is very difficult to read. I made a 600 dpi scan to read the number. The numbers are different, but I'm sure the iP4000 and iP4200 gaskets and plates are identical. They are exactly same shape and size.

 

[The Hat]

The one thing I was worried about was the electrical and date cables differences but I completely forgot about the L shaped steal bar in the 4700 instead of the steel shaft, darn!

I used a Loupe to peep at the code number on mine, but at least someone might still want the gasket and porous plates, if they have lost their..

 

[PeterBJ]

Here is the hard to read number in 300 dpi and 1200 dpi.

Who will be the first to spot something strange with the tape measure?

 

[Łukasz]

Scanned image is somehow "side" view?
But it wasn't in previous scan for some reason...

I guess it is produced with CCD sensor because of great depth of field.
Maybe some additional info about scanner unit: model, make?.

Blue (or rather "aqua") hallo effect in bottom parts of shadows is also interesting.

Ł.

 

[stratman]

Who will be the first to spot something strange with the tape measure?

It has centimeters.

Looks more than 2.54 cm per inch.

 

[PeterBJ]

Bingo! The inches are old Danish inches = 26.2 mm.