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I have recently bought a used Epson Stylus Photo R240. Although I have previously refilled cartridges on Canon printers I cannot readily see where and how to refill the cartridges in the Epson R240. a. Can someone suggest: b. The best place to drill into the cartridge for refilling with ink...

Thanks for the suggestions Bertil and Mikling. I have been fortunate and bought a used Epson Stylus Photo R240 from someone locally who bought a new wireless printer. I can't understand why they wanted to sell it, it is in practically mint condition semingly hardly been used and almost full...

Hello, Apologies if this is a question asked recently, if that is the case please redirect me to those posts. I need to buy a new printer but have a tight budget the important perspective is cheapest to buy and to use. Can anyone suggest; a best buy inkjet printer available in the UK...

Thanks for the reply websnail... though I fear too late. I was about to post an update... I think I have broken the 640. I found that two of the four springs under the purge pad were displaced, one sitting inside the printer the other clearly about to fall out. I expect I had been too heavy...

Thanks again gigigogu. I understand, thanks for the guidence. I'll let you know how I get on, but maybe that'll be a week or two! PW

Thanks for the reply gigigogu. I thought it might take days, I hoped it would't take weeks! Please can you clarify how to: "unlock the printhead from parking pad, fill parking head with warm cleaning solution"? (I now think you mean take the printer casing off first. At first I presumed...

Hello, Please can anyone tell me how to clean an Epson Stylus 640 print head? (I searched the forum but there was no result). Also, I will need to use a USB/parallel adaptor cable, easily obtained but I am slightly concerned it may not work the printer correctly, the PC is running Win XP Pro...

stratman: thanks for the response. The image is a good representation of the actual nozzle check print. As we thought, I need a new printhead. (I can only presume the logic board is OK.) Thanks again for the help determining the problem. (panos: the problem is the printhead has completely...

.... image didn't get included for some reason - I don't know why. Of course the printer won't even print the nozzle check since relocating the original (faulty?) printhead.

Sorry, I cropped the image simply to illustrate the problem without thinking that would complicate ... Now attached a full width image of the nozzle check, (the black was fine after another clean cycle). Apologies for the confusion!

Ah, it does seem to have associated with the message! (As you may appreciate the first block of cyan should be single shade not two shades as illustrated in my image.)

Ah, thanks for pointing to that upload facility - don't know why I hadn't seen it! I have uploaded an jpg image of the nozzle check, but now cannot see how to associate it with this reply...

stratman is correct, I am a nice chap. Apologies for not responding sooner but debating a broken printer isn't a high priority right now. I have a nozzle check image if anyone would like to pass their opinion, as was said, a picture is worth....... I could private email it as there does not...

Of the 370 something reads only one person has suggested any means of attempting to clarify it the original problem is a faulty printhead. And so with thanks and due respect to ghwellsjr, I still am not certain the printhead is the faulty part. I take the point that perhaps the iP5200 is (was)...

The answer to that is simple economics. A new printhead is rather more expensive than a new printer. (65 UK pounds plus delivery whereas a new 9600dpi printer can be bought for rather less). I don't know if this is the fact in other countries (I presume it is) but here in the UK with some...

Oh well, time for a new printer. Thanks again for the help, I appreciate it.

ghwellsjr InkJet Master Thank you for the response a few days ago. A long weekend public holiday here in the UK and then I got rather preoccupied with a problem with the car... I presume there is little likelihood of the printhead not being positioned correctly if the printer detects...

Since removing and refitting the printhead in a Canon iP5200 injet the paper feeds OK but without any ink flowing onto the paper. Is it possible I may have not fitted the printhead correctly? Is it possible to reset any options to 're-activate' the printhead? Time to scrap it? When the...

I had an initial problem with what appeared to be blocked cyan nozzles. (A nozzle print check showed the cyan area as the (ordinarily) two cyan solid colour areas of intensity printed as three different areas of intensity (not two) That is to say the upper area shown as 6c in the nozzle check...