Cleaning the sensor strip.

[qwertydude]

I noticed some smudges on the plastic sensor strip on my printer so I decided to wipe it clean with some alcohol. Wow it seems after a year or so of tons of photo printing quite a bit of ink mist has settled onto that strip that it turned the cleaning pad I used to gently wipe it magenta. I guess magenta seems prone to vaporizing onto the strip. It's probably a good idea to every once in a while clean that strip to keep printing accurately.

 

[ghwellsjr]

Yes, but be very careful because there is a lot of stray ink inside your printer and you can end up making that timing strip even dirtier.

 

[qwertydude]

I used a small folded pad of tissue paper on a pair of tweezers so I wouldn't contaminate it. The entire inside of the printer has become pretty inked up over the life of the printer. I also removed and washed the foam overspray liner, tons of black ink came out. In fact I even ran through several sheets of presentation paper that I moistened with windex, I put several horizontal stripes across the paper and printed blank sheets from microsoft office to run the paper through the rollers, even more ink came out. Printers get amazingly dirty.

 

[ghwellsjr]

My MP760 that I had been using for many years got the dreaded Waste Ink Tank full message but I just reset it, believing, based on what other people had indicated on this forum, that it can hold several times more ink. But then when I took it in for repair recently, there was a puddle of black ink under it. When the repair shop couldn't fix it, I took it apart and the waste pads were full and overflowing, at least at the right hand end under the purge pump. So now I think it might be a good idea to set the printer on a shallow cooking tin when the waste ink tank full message comes up.

 

[SpideRMaN]

@ghwellsjr

Was it your first waste ink reset on the MP760 ?

Ever tried to print eeprom to see how much you printed thill waste in tank full ?

Thanks

 

[ghwellsjr]

Yes, it was the first reset and no, I didn't print the eeprom but I used the printer for about four years.

 

[lolopr1]

I noticed some smudges on the plastic sensor strip on my printer so I decided to wipe it clean with some alcohol. Wow it seems after a year or so of tons of photo printing quite a bit of ink mist has settled onto that strip that it turned the cleaning pad I used to gently wipe it magenta. I guess magenta seems prone to vaporizing onto the strip. It's probably a good idea to every once in a while clean that strip to keep printing accurately.

According to Encad support windex will do the trick.
http://www.wideformat.kodak.com/Sup...les/NJ1000i Technical Bulletin 8_09202005.pdf