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by Bill Chambers on Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:34 pm

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I printed an image the other night and there were very faint, evenly spaced horizontal lines (portrait orientation) across the entire page. This has to be coming from either the print head or the print head carriage, not from rollers. This is a first for me; never had a single issue with the R2400 until this. I ran a nozzle check, looked good. Cleaned the heads anyway, ran another nozzle check, no difference. Ran the Head Alignment, no difference. I've contacted Epson, but am haven't heard back from them as yet.

Any ideas out there? Thanks.

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by Royce Howland on Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:42 pm

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Bill, the symptom sounds like clogging, by far the most common cause for faint banding. I know you ran a head cleaning once already, but try it once or twice more. Sometimes one time is not enough to clean the clogged nozzle(s). (Although if it is clogging I'd expect it to be visible in the nozzle check test print. Hmm...)

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by Bill Chambers on Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:49 pm

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Thanks Royce, I'll try that again. Will post results.

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by E.J. Peiker on Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:00 pm

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It almost always takes three head cleaning cycles on the Epson 2xxx series.

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by Bill Chambers on Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:46 pm

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Problem cured!! Thanks Guys. Just to be on the safe side I ran 4 head cleanings, and then printed the image and it looks great. Oddly though, the nozzle test never looked bad at all, but who cares, y'all solved it. Thanks again.

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by Royce Howland on Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:21 pm

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It's only ink...

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by Eric Chan on Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:24 pm

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Hi Bill, glad to hear you fixed it!

According to Epson, you have to inspect the nozzle test pattern with at least a 10x loupe!! Hmm, that might explain why you didn't notice anything. Esp.with the yellow ink, which is quite hard to see anyways ...

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by Bill Chambers on Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:30 pm

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Maybe that was the issue. I was using an 8x loupe. Next time I'll use my 10x. Thanks for the info, and you're right, yellow played havoc with my eyes!

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by E.J. Peiker on Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:30 pm

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Even if there is a single little line break in the nozzle test, you will see it in a print.

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