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they are all epson the last one was three years old and all i printed with it was 6 manuals and half a dozen pieces of music of a ragtime archive and what happerned was i started getting little dialouges saying the printer was starting to break up through old age,well something like that and every second row would not print and thats after the little bit of printing i did



There probably lies your problem. Ink will dry in time, cluttering up your printing nozzles. With a lot of printers these printheads are replaced with the cartridge. Epson however has printers that use a different approach. On some models (I don't know if it is on all) they use a better quality printhead, but they build it into the machine instead of the cartridges. Now when you don't use your printer on a regular base, the ink will dry and clutter the printingnozzles. That is why I suggested running the cleaning program.

If the printer still doesn't work correct after a couple of cleaning runs (it may take several tries before you get the desired result) and your printer is of the type where the printhead is fixed in the printer, then you can consider the printer total-loss. Unfortunatly the printers these days are cheaper to buy than to have them repaired. But in this case you have nothing to lose anyway, so you can disassemble the printer up to the point where you reach the printhead (unplug power and data cables first! ). Start by removing the ink-cartridges and determin where the printhead is. The printhead can be cleaned using a cloth and some alcohol.

Mike
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