I bought HP over Epson specifically because it was easy to replace print heads. However, I have found the same thing, and I seem to replace print heads pretty often. It has become a consumable rather than a replaceable and has made the printer more expensive to run. A little disappointing.
Bill Green/William Green Photography --- In [email protected], Stanley Krute <s...@...> wrote: > > I'm printing up some 11x17 posters today. I print four of them on a > 24"x36" sheet > (1/2" white border all around). > > I started to see what looked like printhead failures in one of the > cyans. I did a light > cleaning, but the problem came back after a print. Ran four straight > image quality > diagnostics, and there were streaks in block D2 only, which is a lt > magenta/lt cyan > test block. > > Despite the instructions on this page -- http://4rlg.sl.pt -- which say > you should > only replace a head if ALL the possibly screwed up blocks related to a > head are bad, > I replaced the light cyan head anyways. > > Problem solved. > > Thought that was worth sharing. > > -- stan > ------------------------------------ Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPDesignJet_Printers Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List owner: [email protected] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPDesignJet_Printers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPDesignJet_Printers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
