How do I prevent Epson clogging when on extended vacation

[Mike Godett]

This summer, we will be traveling for a couple of months. How do I
prepare my Epson 785EPX and 890 printers for extended non-use, so as to
avoid clogging problems when I start using them again?

Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

Mike Godett

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[Mike Godett]

[Steve Bradshaw]

Seal the printers in a plastic bag and put them in the coolest part of the
house.

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Steve Bradshaw

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[JBuch]

Mike Godett wrote:

I think if you simply leave them connected to the wall power socket and
turned on, they will take care of themselves.

I often have left an Epson color Stylus 800 on for months, and it printed
almost immediately.

Jim Buch

[Arthur Entlich]

Make sure the cleaning station "cups" are clean, especially the sides of
them.

Then, before you shut the printer down for the final time before
leaving, squirt some water into the cleaning station pads (an eyedropper
full). Then shut your printer down using normal process.

Take a large heavy walled plastic bag, and place the printer in it (you
can unplug it if you like). On the side next to the printer, but not on
or in it, but still in the plastic bag place a small (maybe 2" square
piece of cellulose sponge which has been made wet and squeezed fairly
dry so it is not dripping. Close the plastic bag well. Store the
printer out of the sunlight in a cool room.

Art

[Patscga]

>Make sure the cleaning station "cups" are clean

>squirt some water into the cleaning station pad

Where are they?
Pat in Atlanta

[Arthur Entlich]

Patscga wrote:

These are part of the cleaning station, they are the part that the heads
park themselves over when you shut the printer down, they have some
small pads inside of them which the printer suctions ink from the heads
during the cleaning cycles.

Art