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Mon Apr 2nd 2007 10:54:23: Epson Stylus Colour 680 Printer Repairs

My latest repair project has been an Epson Stylus 680 printer. The symptoms were that when it was turned on it would move a bit and then stop and show a constant red light (paper/ink) with the green power light off.

I got the top off and removed the malteser. Then I found the marble. Then I hoovered it out and cleaned it all up, however it still didn't work.

A bit of research on the internet suggested that the error code meant there was a paper jam or no ink cartridges installed. So I started hunting for a bent switch or something in the mechanism, but then spotted the sweet wrapper. Removing that made the printer spring into life :-)

The only problem now is that some parts of the print head are blocked. I've had the head out once and cleaned it with water, however that made it worse. Next I think I'll have it out completely and give it a good soaking and a wash with IPA.

Stay tuned....

Unrelated - this is quite funny - specifically direction 5.

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The nozzles are probably being blocked by the sugar from a bag of jelly tots.

Upsettingly google appears to have the estimated time out. 5mph is quite a good pace for swimming (I believe) so it would take 29 days to swim the Atlantic.

This coupled with the fact that instruction 24 - "Wait for the French to stop striking" means that some important business men could miss their meetings

Comment by Steve J at 13:22 on Mon 2 April 2007

It appears that you are only allowed to swim to Le Havre even when the destination is closer

Comment by steven at 0:22 on Tue 3 April 2007

I had an Epson Stylus Colour 600 that would get continually blocked up: I only used it once a month at most and it really liked to be used a few times a week.

I found that running the head alignment and cleaning functions repeatedly fixed the problem... but only if you kept using it regularly after that. I'm sure I'd often run through the best part of 1/3 or 1/2 a catridge by issusing the head cleaning function more than a handful of times.

Comment by @ndy at 12:06 on Tue 24 April 2007

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