Replacing the black foam pad on a WF 7710 / 7715 / 7720

[avantime]

Hi there everyone,

I have a great workhorse of a printer, a WF 7715 that should be one of the most highly used WF 7715 ever, she's been printing more or less non stop for 8 hours a day for the past 6 months.

However the black foam pad that runs across the body of the printer that captures excess ink (and I imagine splatters and ink from the borderless pictures function) is full of ink. The ink pooled there is almost glistening.

I try once a week to capture the excess ink in this black foam bad with kitchen towels and they come out of there full of ink.

Is there any other solution? I can't find replacement foam pads anywhere in the internet, the kitchen towel process is messy and not perfect at all as I end up getting other parts of the printer dirty. Any ideas?

Many many thanks for the help!

 

[websnail]

Done a little bit of digging with my suppliers and couldn't locate the specific part you needed initially but then discovered the WF-7710 did have it.

https://www.gedat-spareparts.com/index.php?module=search&sess=8470202011112322523293&search=wf-7710

I think the parts you need are:
754 and likely the 502 part as well but getting to the latter is going require a technical manual and a lot more headache than your current process.
https://www.gedat-spareparts.com/in...12322523293&module=detail&brand=eps&id=261139
https://www.gedat-spareparts.com/in...12322523293&module=detail&brand=eps&id=261097

You might want to try using something that's even more absorbent than just kitchen towels... possibly dry rice in a net curtain style bag or maybe tampons a nappy? And leave it/them overnight to see how much of the fluid that pulls out of the platen pad for you?

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

Epson drivers typically allow you to change the amount of overspray, try the available options which may reduce the net amount of ink placed onto that absorbing pad.

 

[avantime]

@websnail, @Ink stained Fingers world class help gentleman! Thank you soooo much.
Will buy from the link provided, and share back.

 

[Ndtanaka]

Wondering if anyone can tell me where to buy this part I need to buy the 754 part myself but I can’t figure out where I can buy it from If anyone knows it would be greatly appreciated I found one place but when I tried to place the order it doesn’t show shipping to the US

 

[Ndtanaka]

Done a little bit of digging with my suppliers and couldn't locate the specific part you needed initially but then discovered the WF-7710 did have it.

https://www.gedat-spareparts.com/index.php?module=search&sess=8470202011112322523293&search=wf-7710

I think the parts you need are:
754 and likely the 502 part as well but getting to the latter is going require a technical manual and a lot more headache than your current process.
https://www.gedat-spareparts.com/in...12322523293&module=detail&brand=eps&id=261139
https://www.gedat-spareparts.com/in...12322523293&module=detail&brand=eps&id=261097

You might want to try using something that's even more absorbent than just kitchen towels... possibly dry rice in a net curtain style bag or maybe tampons a nappy? And leave it/them overnight to see how much of the fluid that pulls out of the platen pad for you?

I’m trying to figure out where to buy the 754 part myself

 

[stratman]

There are two partl numbers for 754. One of the model numbers can be found and the other not at the link below.

https://partstore.encompass.com/model/EPSC11CG37201

Now that you know the Part Numbers you can search using Google.