Re: Pictorico pinholes
Diana: Every once in a while occurrences such as this happen . . and, watch out, you will go crazy. Some thoughts: 1. Sometimes, particularly during the winter, voltage varies in the home . . . a voltage stabilizer can aid by stopping spikes and drops in the voltage coming into the home. A rather inexpensive one, made in China (of course) is the OPTI/UPS Model # SS1200 . . . I think the cost is around $35 2. You mention static electricity and if it is very dry where you live that might be a part of the problem. Can you walk across your rug, shuffling your feet, and then when touching a doorknob make a spark? That indicates static electricity. An aid to that is to take a metal portion of your printer and screw a wire (such as telephone wire available @ a good hardware or electronics store) and run it to a ground such as a pipe for water. Do not stick it into your wall plug outlet. These things might help. Surges in home voltage can cause a piezo- electric head to spurt more or not spurt. I noticed various errors while running 2 Epson 7800 printers of my one G5 Macintosh. Another colleague had similar glitches and was printing of large 36 x 48 inch paper. It would print and then run a bad line or two, therefore ruining the paper. He actually had to purchase a new computer (a used Mac G4 with tons of great software) and that cured his problem. Everything else on the computer worked but when printing. And, he downloaded al new drivers, cleaned, etc. just as you have done. So, that is three things to think about. Best of fortune with this pesky problem Jack Fulton On December2006, at 3:58 PM, Diana Bloomfield wrote: Hi all,
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