"Epson 3880 to Store or not to Store?"

[James~K]

I have purchased a Epson 3880 for 75$. It has a broken printer carriage, I have already fixed the same defect on my "other 3880". So I would like to store the 75$ printer with the broken carriage Long term till I may need it. I want to flush the system with out having the carriage fixed at this time. I was thinking of using a tube connection to the cartridge spigot heads and flushing with a syringe but I have read it is not advisable. Sorry for the rambling but I guess the printer has to function on its own to flush the system. Then after the flush could it be stored for a long time after the Flush? I will be using Piezo Flush.

Thank you for your interest

 

[The Hat]

@James~K, If the ink system is still intact and sealed then leave the printer as is, and when you ready to work on the printer, that would be the time to flush out the old ink, use the syringe to suck out the ink rather than forcing more liquid in...