Dana Ceccarelli of Inkjetmall.com demonstrates how to maintain your small format desktop Epson printer. We sell the small format cleaning kit at InkjetMall here: shop.inkjetmall.com
Excellent video, Dana. I probably will just have the tech stop work on my R2400 and I will do this cleaning myself. Thanks for letting me know about this video in answer to my problem with the yellow channel.
HI Dana - Awesome. Thanks for that demo. Where can I purchase a cleaning kit that includes the hypos, solvents, and the empty cartridge for servicing my Epson Stylus Photo 2200.
you can put PiezoFlush into refillable cartridges and run cleaning cycles but the force of a cleaning cycle using the print head is small in comparison to using it by injection or INIT FILL method as we instruct.
The WF-3520 has 3 "normal" sized cartridges and a larger black cartridge. Is this happening on all 4 positions? Did you know that when you buy from InkjetMall you get free support with your Customer ID#? If you bought it from Amazon - please contact us at sales at InkjetMall dot come with your name or order number and then I can register you for free technical support at InkjetMall.
Dummy cartridge doesn't fit Epson Stylus Photo R2000 Printer. There is an alignment pin for each ink cartridge. The dummy cartridge does not have this hole.
Nice video, but with ONE GLARING OMISSION. The instruction sheet says, "Draw 2ml PiezoFlush into the syringe..." However, in this video she never shows you how the heck this is supposed to be done! She just finds a magically filled syringe out of nowhere and starts to use it. The problem is, the dispenser bottle has a very narrow tip on it, so there's no way to dip the syringe into the solution to draw some up. Never using a syringe before, I thought I'd pull the top out, fill it from the top and put the plunger back in. WRONG! The solution is thin enough, it ran right through the syringe making a mess all over my table. Although I tried to be very careful, when reinserting the plunger, it still jerked slightly spraying red solution sprayed everywhere....all over my shirt, tabletop...even papers lying several feet away. I finally used a cap off a bottle of rubbing alcohol as a little cup. I filled that little cup and drew the solution up from there. I would still like to know how they filled their syringe. You can't do it directly from the bottle. For someone who's never done this before, this is a gross oversight and really needs to be addressed, at least on the instruction sheet. Hopefully others will see this and avoid the huge mess I had to clean up...and be forewarned, that red solution stains! It appears to be water soluble and I was able to wash it out of my shirt, but the papers lying a few feet away were ruined.
I discovered by accident that the entire top piece (the tip and threads) can be popped out in order to access the solution. Unscrewing doesn't work; you have to bend it (carefully) until it pops out and separates from the hexagonal parts below it.
There's a really easy fix to this. You just empty some solution into a small cup and draw it up into the syringe. Just like you would broth into a turkey baster.
for me, main issue is always air. epsons are some of the worst printers you can get, but the 3rd party ink is dirt cheap (you get what you pay for). if you want a printer that doesn't require a whole lot of maintenance, grab a solvent printer. also do not listen to the folks at t-shirt forums, they always boast about epson for at home t-shirt businesses... nope, don't do that, you're wasting money on ink and maintenance AND time, when a solvent printer is always ready to go. solvent inks rarely clog, and when they do, you don't need chemicals to flush them. solvent and only solvent. roland has a few nice desk models.
