printer problems

[phil dean]

I've got a bubblejet printer which hasn't been used for months.

 

the ink had run out so I went and got refils, but on running them through the printer tries to print but nothing shows....any advice or is it printer heaven for this one.

[Chris Goddard]

Is it by any chance an Epson?? Had the same problem with an old 500 a while ago and i tried ALLSORTS!! But no go. I then a couple fo weeks after discovered a product which claimed to clean blocked jets on just such an occasion!! Cannot remeber exactly what it was called but ti was i think a JET-TEC branded substance and it was a CLEANER for periodic cleans on specifically Epson printers.

Hope this might be of some use??

[phil dean]

thanks chris, it is an epson

 

i'll ask at the shop unless someone else knows where I can get it.

[UK-Fishing-Tackle.co.uk]

50/50 on these working in my experience (as an IT Manager).

 

Go for a new printer - eBuyer to a cracking Canon i series printer:

 

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/in...oduct_uid=88162

 

Bargain for under £30. The cartridges are about a quid or two a piece from www.choicestationary.co.uk AND the head is replaceable if it clogs at less than 20 notes.

 

Considering you get a new printer and set of cartridges for £30 which will probably be at least as good as most Epsons it is by far the easiest solution.

[terryk]

Check to see if there is a 'paper thickness' lever. If so, it may be set too wide (to allow envelopes, etc to print). Push it to the smallest setting and try again.

[Guest jay_con]

With a bubble jet can you do a nozzle check and head clean in the print utilities menu??? Or am I sounding stupid again??

[phil dean]

sorry @summer@ don't know the answer either.

 

ian, thanks for the links, that may be the easiest option

[Ian FG]

phil,

 

If you are flush then you could think about a new laser printer, you will never go back to inkjets after having used a laser. Not too expensive an option if you don't use colour.

[UK-Fishing-Tackle.co.uk]

Thats a pretty big if these days....virtually everyone has a digital camera, web pages (although they usually print well in mono), emails etc....

 

The disposable laser printers these days (Samsung, Brother sub £60 printers) are not that bad a buy, and very reliable (6000 sheets for about £15 of toner cannot be bad). However cheap colour lasers are expensive to run (usually £70 plus per cartridge and you need four cartridges in most of them - the colours are put in separately). Cheap colour lasers usually don't give amazing output either....Watch out with lasers for drum/imaging kit costs and the like - they can cost upto half the price of the printer in many cases!

[phil dean]

flush is not a word that can apply to me at the moment.