chandler@yomogi.or.jp (chandler) writes: > "William S. Pettit" <wpettit@ix.netcom.com> writes: > > > I had the same thing happen on an old 800 several months ago--it turned > > out that the pizeo heads were burned out because they were dry--again, > > using cleaning fluid. I junked the printer because of age and cost to > > repair. > > I don't understand this - the piezoelectric heads are in the > *cartridges*. Every time you put new cartridges in, you are replacing > the main printing mechanism. That's (the honest part of) why the > cartridges are so expensive and the printers so cheap. No, that's not true. In all the Epson printers, the heads are *not* in the cartridges. In the HP printers they are; not in the Epson. Look at how the cartridges go into the printer; they connect to tubing that eventually reaches the heads, but no part of the cartridge itself is in line-of-sight with the paper. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info
