However, if you identify one forum member trying to help another member as a "rant", so be it. That's you opinion and you have every right to harbor that opinion. By the same token, I have every right to disagree with your assessment of the situation.
Gary, clearly, you feel offended by my post and I'm sorry about that. In an attempt at humour, and as a warning, I self identified my post as a rant not yours. (EDIT: I meant that anything between the two '/rant' in my post is to be considered my rant.) So there may be a little bit of misunderstanding there.
I appreciate your numerous helpful posts here. Just as you and many others, I'm trying to help too. Not too long ago I would have been inclined to give the very same advices you gave here. As a matter of fact, many Lula members have visited my page with instructions on how to print using pure individual channel or all channels that would help a user perform just what you recommend:
http://lucbusquin.com/content/purge-all-epson-x900-ink-channelsI'm on my second head failure and, yes, I'm more than a little miffed at Epson. Just like you, I babysit my printer, religiously change the wiper, humidity control the room at exactly 50% RH, minimize dust, use a dust cover, exercise the printer regularly, I don't panic, etc., etc. I'm glad your experience is different, but it is undeniable that a disproportionate number of Epson x900 printers are lemons, and that through no fault of the user many printheads will fail. .
My contention is that if you have the problem identified by the OP, i.e. an x900 printer that was printing normally until it shows missing nozzles that do not clear after 'multiple cleanings, paired, power, and power paired', printing 'an 8x10 document with only the colour of the problem nozzle' is not going to help. I would love to be proved wrong as it would save many of us beaucoup bucks.
Why would the success stories not be reported? That would be really weird.
Sportmaster report is encouraging,
but his case might be different, i.e. a properly functioning x900 printer that then sat for an extended period of time can be revived using the method he used. He didn't say if the printer was functioning properly prior the extended sit, it would be interesting to know. (EDIT: turns out he does say the printer was clogging)
Can anyone report that they successfully recovered a normally printing x900 printer with no near empty cartridges, that suddenly exhibits missing nozzles which do not improve after two cl4 cleanings, two power cleanings, and one SS cleaning with a day rest in between, without changing the printhead and/or other parts? I've read about a single success story using the ink charge feature (EDIT: +sportmaster). I would like to hear if there is any other success stories out there.
My point is not to be a Debbie Downer but to help users not throw good money after bad.
