Cleaning the print heads seems to be standard procedure whenever a new
cartridge is put in, atleast on my Stylus Color 800.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Brokaw" <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Epson 1270
| on 11/15/01 10:07 AM, John Pendley at jpendley@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
|
| > Hello everyone,
| >
| > So many of you helped when I was having all the trouble getting my
computer
| > to be friendly with a SCSI card and my ScanWit. All of you have my
thanks,
| > and I have some good news. Windows XP had it all working in no time, so
| > I'm now making my first scans.
| >
| > There's bad news, too. I just put a new color ink cartridge in my Epson
| > 1270, and every print I've made with it has very visible banding. This
| > never happened with the old cartridge. On a landscape format print, the
| > bands are vertical, which means they're horizontal as the paper comes
| > through the printer. (I hope that was clear enough.) I wonder if
anyone
| > has an idea what to do or if anyone knows the address for getting on the
| > Epson list.
| >
| > Regards,
| > John
|
| My Epson 800 has a utility program for aligning the printheads. I think
you
| need to run that program when you change cartridges.
| --
|
| Jim Brokaw
| OM-1's, -2's, -4's, (no -3's yet) and no OM-oney...
|
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