Printer question?

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Hi...

Have a printer question. Guess it's a bit off topic,
but perhaps some of you may have experienced it and have
a little advice...

Epson 640. Worked well until now, but it's invented a
terribly frustrating habit. Seems that once every two or
three uses it prints a few lines - perhaps a dozen, then
goes into an (apparently) endless line feed loop. Apparently
because I've watched it eat a dozen sheets of paper, but then
got real tired and frustrated.

When I say a dozen lines, don't mean clean cut, but rather the
"slowly building" lines that we see being printed.

Printing text, it will print a half dozen "finished" lines,
then start line-feeding.

Googled for the fault; no help. Removed and re-installed
the drivers; no help. Removed and cleaned and re-installed
the cables; no help.

Hate to throw it away because I have a *lot* of ink cartridges
here for it. But also hate watching it waste photo paper.

Any advice, or do I just bite the bullet and replace it?

Thanks, and take care.

Ken

 

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Ken Weitzel wrote:
>
> Hi...
>
> Have a printer question. Guess it's a bit off topic,
> but perhaps some of you may have experienced it and have
> a little advice...
>
> Epson 640. Worked well until now, but it's invented a
> terribly frustrating habit. Seems that once every two or
> three uses it prints a few lines - perhaps a dozen, then
> goes into an (apparently) endless line feed loop. Apparently
> because I've watched it eat a dozen sheets of paper, but then
> got real tired and frustrated.
>
> When I say a dozen lines, don't mean clean cut, but rather the
> "slowly building" lines that we see being printed.
>
> Printing text, it will print a half dozen "finished" lines,
> then start line-feeding.
>
> Googled for the fault; no help. Removed and re-installed
> the drivers; no help. Removed and cleaned and re-installed
> the cables; no help.
>
> Hate to throw it away because I have a *lot* of ink cartridges
> here for it. But also hate watching it waste photo paper.
>
> Any advice, or do I just bite the bullet and replace it?
>
> Thanks, and take care.
>
> Ken
>
It'd dead, Jim.
Time to get a new printer. Perhaps you can find another of the same
model (if you want to make the same mistake again). Perhaps going to
the Epson support site will give you some help...


--
Ron Hunter rphunter@charter.net

 

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I had a photo7something that did that then died.

You may be looking at replacing it...s/h off ebay?

Your cartridges are compatiable with the following epson models
440/460/640/660/670 .



"Ken Weitzel" <kweitzel@shaw.ca> wrote in message
newseHJd.176210$6l.28672@pd7tw2no...
>
> Hi...
>
> Have a printer question. Guess it's a bit off topic,
> but perhaps some of you may have experienced it and have
> a little advice...
>
> Epson 640. Worked well until now, but it's invented a
> terribly frustrating habit. Seems that once every two or
> three uses it prints a few lines - perhaps a dozen, then
> goes into an (apparently) endless line feed loop. Apparently
> because I've watched it eat a dozen sheets of paper, but then
> got real tired and frustrated.
>
> When I say a dozen lines, don't mean clean cut, but rather the
> "slowly building" lines that we see being printed.
>
> Printing text, it will print a half dozen "finished" lines,
> then start line-feeding.
>
> Googled for the fault; no help. Removed and re-installed
> the drivers; no help. Removed and cleaned and re-installed
> the cables; no help.
>
> Hate to throw it away because I have a *lot* of ink cartridges
> here for it. But also hate watching it waste photo paper.
>
> Any advice, or do I just bite the bullet and replace it?
>
> Thanks, and take care.
>
> Ken
>

 

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"Ken Weitzel" <kweitzel@shaw.ca> wrote in message
newseHJd.176210$6l.28672@pd7tw2no...
>
> Hi...
>
> Have a printer question. Guess it's a bit off topic,
> but perhaps some of you may have experienced it and have
> a little advice...
>
> Epson 640. Worked well until now, but it's invented a
> terribly frustrating habit. Seems that once every two or
> three uses it prints a few lines - perhaps a dozen, then
> goes into an (apparently) endless line feed loop. Apparently
> because I've watched it eat a dozen sheets of paper, but then
> got real tired and frustrated.
>
> When I say a dozen lines, don't mean clean cut, but rather the
> "slowly building" lines that we see being printed.
>
> Printing text, it will print a half dozen "finished" lines,
> then start line-feeding.
>
> Googled for the fault; no help. Removed and re-installed
> the drivers; no help. Removed and cleaned and re-installed
> the cables; no help.
>
> Hate to throw it away because I have a *lot* of ink cartridges
> here for it. But also hate watching it waste photo paper.
>
> Any advice, or do I just bite the bullet and replace it?
>
> Thanks, and take care.
>

Ken

For many years I stuck to Epson printers and spent lots and lots of time
fiddling with them when the same thing as happened to you happened to me, I
used to delete the software and reload not too mention unclogging the things
and usually when I needed a print very quickly. My last one finally gave up
about a month ago.

I bought a Canon PIXMA ip4000, the print head comes separately and can be
replaced, the cartridges contain more ink and are cheaper, the prints are
better quality, the print manager is easier to use and the build quality is
superior, it even prints double sided text, and lastly it didn't cost very
much. They make a range of models in this series, the first one uses two
cartridges, the next ones up, mine included use five and the top end ones
use seven (I think) having compared prints from the same file done on an
Epson 830u and my ip4000 they are different in colour but the detail on the
ip4000 is marginally better.

It is my opinion that Epson's reputation is somewhat undeserved.

Jem
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