I am getting only blank output from the printer. The printer goes through all the motions of printing but nothing gets printed to the paper. I have searched through this forum and tried everything that was suggested. Here is a summary of the problem and things I have tried so far:
Brief background:
The i960 has been used for about 4 years now. Never had a clog or any other printing issues. There have been periods of up to 1 month where the printer sat idle but never experienced any clog etc. I did make sure to run a deep clean cycle if the printer sat idle for that long. Now all of a sudden, the printer stopped printing altogether. It still goes through all the motions but only blank paper comes out. There was no gradual deterioration of image or clogging of one nozzle at a time like I have read in several threads here. It just stopped putting ink on paper.
things I have tried to fix this:
* Checked that the cartridges had ink in them. They did. I use the pre-filled ones from inkgrabber (recommended in Neil Slade's web site)
* Put in a fresh set of cartridges just to be sure and ran deep clean cycles.
* Went into the service mode and tried to print EEPROM & nozzle check. No luck still blank sheets coming out.
* Reset the EEPROM data and the waste ink counter as per the instructions found on this forum.
* Used compressed air to force the ink out. Soaked the printhead in windex overnight. Did this 2 nights in a row.
* Cleaned the contacts with rubbing alcohol.
* Ran several deep cleaning cycles again. The ink levels on the tanks are going down but still no ink on paper.
* Even tried printing from different computers just in case (win XP and Win 2K), no luck there either.
In summary, I doubt if the printhead is clogged. I actually don't know if it was ever clogged since I would expect clogging to manifest itself by deterioration of image quality or absence of certain colors. In my case, it went from printing stunning 4x6 photos 3 days earlier to no printing at all. Besides, I would expect some ink to come out now after all the cleaning if there was a clog.
I am out of ideas at this point. Do I need a new printhead? Is there anything else I can try? What if the problem is in the logic card and not the printhead? How do I figure out where the problem is?
Please help.
Thanks
Brief background:
The i960 has been used for about 4 years now. Never had a clog or any other printing issues. There have been periods of up to 1 month where the printer sat idle but never experienced any clog etc. I did make sure to run a deep clean cycle if the printer sat idle for that long. Now all of a sudden, the printer stopped printing altogether. It still goes through all the motions but only blank paper comes out. There was no gradual deterioration of image or clogging of one nozzle at a time like I have read in several threads here. It just stopped putting ink on paper.
things I have tried to fix this:
* Checked that the cartridges had ink in them. They did. I use the pre-filled ones from inkgrabber (recommended in Neil Slade's web site)
* Put in a fresh set of cartridges just to be sure and ran deep clean cycles.
* Went into the service mode and tried to print EEPROM & nozzle check. No luck still blank sheets coming out.
* Reset the EEPROM data and the waste ink counter as per the instructions found on this forum.
* Used compressed air to force the ink out. Soaked the printhead in windex overnight. Did this 2 nights in a row.
* Cleaned the contacts with rubbing alcohol.
* Ran several deep cleaning cycles again. The ink levels on the tanks are going down but still no ink on paper.
* Even tried printing from different computers just in case (win XP and Win 2K), no luck there either.
In summary, I doubt if the printhead is clogged. I actually don't know if it was ever clogged since I would expect clogging to manifest itself by deterioration of image quality or absence of certain colors. In my case, it went from printing stunning 4x6 photos 3 days earlier to no printing at all. Besides, I would expect some ink to come out now after all the cleaning if there was a clog.
I am out of ideas at this point. Do I need a new printhead? Is there anything else I can try? What if the problem is in the logic card and not the printhead? How do I figure out where the problem is?
Please help.
Thanks