Mothballing an Epson color stylus 600
Conrad Hoffman
use the printer for a year? I was going to remove the cartridge and using a
syringe, clean out the head and leave it filled with water. Any other
thoughts?
Arthur Entlich
it might sit there and corrode something.
I've noticed new Epsons seem to have some type of oily substance in the
heads, but I'm not suggesting its oil, it may be glycerin or glycol or
something else.
I suspect that dry heads might be better than wet ones with the wrong
fluid left inside. It may be a small bit of a job getting them started
again, (due to air lock) but that usually just requires starting with
fresh carts which are deaerated, and a few cleaning cycles to clear up.
Therefore, I would suggest using some rubbing alcohol to pass through
the heads which will evaporate rapidly to clean the heads out of all the
ink. I would also wrap the printer in a well sealed plastic bag.
All of this is an educated guess.
Art
Cassandra
No no, NO!! Never, and I repeat, *NEVER* use water anywhere near a printer!
You put water in there and, when you come to want to use it again, you'll
have an anchor. The printhead on an Epson is not an enclosed area and the
water will leak down into the body of the machine. When you come to use it
again, some of the internals may have rusted. Far better to leave the
original carts in, ort purchase some cleaning carts and use those. I have a
kit (250ml bottle of fluid and a syringe) which I use to refill dead carts
to use as cleaners. Windolene (Windex) works equally well.
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Cassandra
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Arthur Entlich
the very first color model was made. The truth is, if water was left in
the heads (and there isn't a very big chamber for it, so it would only
be a few ml at most) it would either evaporate, or more likely drain via
the cleaning station pad location.
I would assume anyone putting their printer "to bed" for a length of
time would at least have the intelligence to park the heads. Parked
heads are capped on the cleaning station pads. The cleaning station
pads each have a hole in the bottom of them with a small tube that leads
to a small chamber filled with absorbent paper similar to disposable
diapers. This is the same place that the ink goes during a cleaning
cycle. This chamber is sealed off from the body of the printer so the
ink doesn't spill everywhere, so any water would end up there, where it
can do no harm.
Art
Cassandra wrote:
> Conrad Hoffman wrote:
>
>>Whats the best way to to keep the head from plugging if one is not going
>>
> to
>
>>use the printer for a year? I was going to remove the cartridge and using
>>
> a
>
>>syringe, clean out the head and leave it filled with water. Any other
>>thoughts?
>>
>
>
> No no, NO!! Never, and I repeat, *NEVER* use water anywhere near a printer!
> You put water in there and, when you come to want to use it again, you'll
> have an anchor. The printhead on an Epson is not an enclosed area and the
> water will leak down into the body of the machine. When you come to use it
> again, some of the internals may have rusted. Far better to leave the
> original carts in, ort purchase some cleaning carts and use those. I have a
> kit (250ml bottle of fluid and a syringe) which I use to refill dead carts
> to use as cleaners. Windolene (Windex) works equally well.
> --?