Keep your printer insides clean, but leave some parts alone. Watch out for essential lubricants
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Keeping your printer insides clean helps keep it in good working order, but watch out for lubricated parts which should be left well alone.
Don't be over zealous in cleaning greased and oiled parts
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In an engineer by trade, and I can tell you the grease on the rails is either PTFE or Silicone based in the majority of cases. If you’ve accidentally cleaned the grease off and there’s plastic parts there (very likely), you should replace it with the same. Do not use regular greases as many of them will attack the plastic parts.
Good point.
thanks. keep more coming on cleaning. i learn more each time.
Thanks - I have covered most aspects... but if you think of anything, let me know!
I used to run an Epson Express centre (fixing consumer grade printers) , the service manuals went into quite good depth on what to grease / clean and not!! And yes youre spot on.
One thing to note is that if grease does somehow find its way onto the optical encoder strip, it does need cleaning (very carefully) as it will cause serious misalignment on bi-directional prints. I never figured out how it got there, but it did happen on occasion.
Thanks - a good tip
Good tips. Thanks
Thanks
Would love If you could do a comparison of the old gfx 100s and the 2 version for prints/printing? Thank you!!!
Looking at images on screen, I can see no significant difference - on print, there would be even less ;-)
The viewfinder is nicer, but other changes [for the sort of work I do] are negligible.
There are differences obviously, but fundamentally it's the same sensor and I rarely use autofocus ;-)
Good 1 Keith
Thanks
Thanks as ever:)
Thanks
Makes sense, it is a machine after all. Have you ever had to re-grease any components?
No, but I've never been a printer user at commercial volumes of print
Can toilet bowl cleaner be used on those crappy Epson printers? 😄 thanks for the article as it reminded me to clean my Canon printer.
No more than you should use it for cleaning your hands
Epson/Canon - little difference in reality
I always put a blanket or something to cover my p5000 when I am not using it. For avoid dust. Is there important you think.
A friend told me to take out the cartridges and shake them a bit. Perhaps not often, but anyway. Is these two ideas preferable?
Take care, Göran in Latvia
I often keep a stack of scrap/test prints on top to keep out dust
For shaking the carts I have a twice yearly diary reminder to take them out and give a gentle shake to
@@KeithCooper thanks for this response.
The "plastic band" is the head drive belt 🤣
Yes - I'm trying to keep it general and not specific to any one printer.
The video is not really aimed at those wishing to know how a printer works ;-)
Great reply to that idiot trying to show you up Keith. Most people that have printers would just see it as a plastic belt. Thank you for keeping things simple. It's much appreciated be the majority of us. Keep producing these informative and very useful videos.@KeithCooper
Hi Keith. A question about replacing ink cartridges, more specifically related to the Canon Pro 200 printer; is it safe to continue using the printer when you get the "Printer Ink May Have Run Out" message and just wait until the ink cartridge just physically runs out, or is it wise to change the ink as soon as you get the "Cartridge May Have Run Out Of Ink", alert?
I've noticed that if I hold my nerve and don't immediately change the ink cartridge, I can get quite a few extra prints out of it. Should I stop ignoring the 'may have run out of ink' alert and change it immediately? With the price of ink these days I want to try and get every last drop of ink I can out of a cart!
I wait until the printer is 'sure' - however, I'll likely not print important prints on the 'dregs' ;-)
@@KeithCooper Thanks for the reply, Keith. A few days ago I was subjected to a scare story about not leaving it too late because "air pockets".
Yes - my leaving the low cart is partly to get any others closer to replacement, since replacing one often has a cascade effect and I've replaced several.
This is one aspect of the 200/300 I don't much care for
hi sir i bought epson l8180 printer yesterday. I use mac mini (Ventura 13.3). Installed the Epson driver and took a print. But the color is less. I can't find advanced settings option in printer settings. So can't select adobe rgb profile. Can't find a solution for this on UA-cam. Sir have Epson l8180 printer. Does it have advanced setting option?
look further! - it's likely you have installed the AirPrint driver by mistake. There is no reason to select A98 as a profile when printing anyway, but that's a whole different issue.. ;-)
@@KeithCooper ok sir
When you leave the print, select the photoshop manage color option and enter the color profile as the printer profile to get the best color print.
Yes. Easiest way to avoid AirPrint the driver is to delete the current one and go to Epson.sn and do a full driver install, BUT read the instructions carefully.
"That metal bar" in... heh... "affordable" printers, looks like you think about them wrongly, and you screw up the print heads precision for life. What i hate more than those, is the freely hanging little plastic strip with the bar patterns to register the exact head movement. It's like they put these things upfront deliberately so you can keep buying if you screw anything up.
Yes, if you don't know why you need to clean or touch a bit, best to leave alone.
I've seen many a printer broken by assorted incompetence/curiosity ;-)