Opportunity! Check the orifaces and see what could unplug them!
If we cannot afford to take care of our veterans, then we should stop making
them.
David C. Wilker Jr.
USAF (RET)
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Alpizar
To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: Stylewriter help
Well, we can cancel my pleas for help, at least for the stylewriter. I killed
the printhead. Ripped the nozzle end off of the main body and it's now not
going to come back together.
Still, my question about other printers stands. Anywhere to find a list of
printers with mac serial ports?
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Mr. David C. Wilker Jr.
<wilkerbeas...@charter.net> wrote:
I remeber when i was married to a drug user. She would put Polident tablets
in her smoking aparatus. I guess the fizzing helped.
If we cannot afford to take care of our veterans, then we should stop
making them.
David C. Wilker Jr.
USAF (RET)
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Alpizar
To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: Stylewriter help
I'm going to try the windex part next. I pulled the ejection nozzles/pcb
part off the main body of the cartridge tray and ran it under nice hot tap
water and then soaked it in alcohol/water overnight. I let it dry out and then
tried it again, but got the result I mentioned earlier.
I'm thinking I may have to replace the part altogether though, I don't
think it liked being disassembled. I am looking for a replacement just in case.
Is there a list of some kind somewhere that tells what printers were made
with mac serial ports? I've started looking at deskwriters and other
stylewriters. I've even been looking at image writers on ebay. At least I know
those can survive bomb blasts and still print.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Rodolfo Gil Pernía
<gilrodo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi there.
First step unclogging printheads: Are you sure that your ink cartridge
actually has ink left inside it?.
Water and alcohol will not dilute injection ink. Hot water is a way to,
let say, “melt” ink, it will work with shallow dry ink.
This is what I do: use distiller water (or bottled water such Evian).
Heat the water in the microwave to the point that it is almost boiling (be
careful). Soak the printhead (only the nozzle or the injection side, not the
whole print head). In the meantime, heat more water in another container, when
the temperature goes down, move the heads to the new hot water. Recycle water
and re-heat. Allow the print heads to be in hot water for about 10minutes.
While the printhead is still warm, press the nozzles side onto a lint free
fabric, like an old cotton t-shirt. The ink will wick into the fabric from the
nozzles as the water is drawn out of the printhead. Don’t rub the cloth across
the nozzles, just press it. Do this several times, when you change printhead
to new hot water. To test, put the printheads back to the printer and run the
cleaning routine if aviable or print a paper with a pattern of four full
vertical colored frames in CMYK colors (I mean cian, magenta, yellow and
black). Sometimes you will need to full print two or three letter size papers
to see the colors OK.
If the printhead is still clogged, then you will need to
“torture” the printhead. Look at the supermarket for a glass/windows cleaner
with ammonia (fuller, windex). Ammonia will dilute the injection ink. It will
clean the surface of your printer (ink residues) very nice. Do not buy alcohol
based window cleaner, it is the same as using water. Repeat the cleaning
process again with hot ammonia cleaner instead of water. Soak the printhead
overnight. Be carefull when heating cleaner in the microwave, it can blew up
and made a mess. Heat up the cleaner just to the point that it will starts to
boil (watch the time, I use a cup with 1cm of cleaner level and 25 seconds on
mine). If you soak overnight then almos sure your nozzles will have ink
leakage. Use absorbent paper and allow the paper to be in contact with nozzles
for some time (one hour or more) until ink leakage stops.
I only have experience with HP products and I have recovered old ink
cartridges+printhead doing this on HP#17 and HP#15 and printheads HP#10 for
plotter.
I hope this help you.
Regards,
Rodolfo.
P.S. Sorry for bugs in my English.
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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:03:23 -0400
Subject: Re: Stylewriter help
From: sen...@gmail.com
To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com
So, I tried the running under hot tap water. I've tried the soaking in
alcohol. Neither seemed to work. The printer still goes through the action of
printing, but nothing comes out on the page. The printhead itself has residue
from ink passing through it after the print cycle, but nothing came out on the
page.
Any ideas? Or as the head just dead?
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