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: [email protected] 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 <[email protected]> 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:03:23 -0400 Subject: Re: Stylewriter help From: [email protected] To: [email protected] 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? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. Check it out. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
