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When I bought this 7880 for $100, it had been in storage for around a decade. Ink in the lines had evaporated. Still had the original OEM cartridges from 2010 in it. Original owner had run about 250 posters through it, before upgrading to another printer.
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My investment (in CDN$)
$100 - Printer
$190 - Gloss Optimizer (4x500ml)
$160 - 7880 Refillable Cartridge Set
$150 - Expired ink from eBay
$50 - cleaning solution (1L)
$650 CDN (about 425-460 USD) and I've got this all working and loaded. On to building profile curves.
Many thanks to Paul Roark for his inspiration!!!?
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thanks Paul, that's actually remaining availability, I just replaced it. You'll see it's going down,. 24, 23, 22
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Your printer may not be able to clean itself because your Maintenance Take is full.
Paul
Spoke too soon. gave it another chance of cleaning solution on paper towel and laying it flat under the print head while moving the print head, and another liberal spray of cleaning solution over the parking areas. Followed by a power clean.? Now have it where it was supposed to be. Success.?
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Spoke too soon. gave it another chance of cleaning solution on paper towel and laying it flat under the print head while moving the print head, and another liberal spray of cleaning solution over the parking areas. Followed by a power clean. ?Now have it where it was supposed to be. Success.?
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Well, at this point, I've cleaned and checked everything. I'm suspecting that that area in the print head may not be usable. All is not lost. I still have 7 channels and can use this machine to print on Satin/Glossy and stick with my 7800 for matte paper. Or I move the combo gloss/matte to the 7800 and strip down the 7880 for parts.
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Good advice Don, I’ll try that next. Thank you for the link.
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Jeff
When I have seen this on Epson 3880, P800, P900, P5300, its usually not the lines nor the damper. Its usually dried crud ink that is floating around the capping station and the bottom of the print head.
This is how I clean these areas -?
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Have you done this cleaning already? If not, get same paper towels and some cleaning fluid (Pizoflush is what I use, but there are other concoctions you can mix by searching on the internet).
Don Nelson
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... working through getting that line to clear on the print head now. Slow going, but getting there.
However, I have all the carts filled as per @Paul Roark's glossy variable setting. Will start printing test patterns on selected papers shortly. Using Richard Boutwell's QTP Pro.
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*I actually modified a bit. I went with Lc and Lm as separate toners, since I only needed one PK and one MK.
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| Epson 7880 Value |
| LLK = 50% LM |
| LM = 10% PK |
| LC = 15% PK |
| LK = 50% LC |
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| K = 100% PK |
| C = 50% PK |
| M = 30% PK |
| Y = 100% MK |
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Follow up. Got the ink lines cleared. Magenta was blocked with some hard bits, cyan and yellow not so bad. All others cleaned initially with a power clean. Was able to bleed the troublesome lines clean with a syringe and cleaning solution.?
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Thanks folks, looks like the stuff from Inkowl and Inkpot is the wj824 too. It's described as Epson compatible gloss optimizer for the same printers as the octoink.?
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There was a temporary problem with the product pages of octoink,
recently. But they are online again and it seems wj824 is in
stock.
Am 13.01.2025 um 07:47 schrieb tooko
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I had a chat with someone from Octoink in December, they have
large amount of WJ824 in stock. I receive 1 Liter this week.
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I had a chat with someone from Octoink in December, they have large amount of WJ824 in stock. I receive 1 Liter this week.
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Joe Costello, joe@.... WJ824 from STS is the gloss optimiser you want. ---
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On Jan 12, 2025, at 7:50?PM, Paul Roark via groups.io <roark.paul@...> wrote:
? I can't answer your question.? You might try asking Joe Castello (sp?)? at STS.? I'm not at home,? so I can't get phone? numbers?for you.
Paul? thanks for the reply Paul. For context is the glop-wj824 supposed to be the same gloss optimizer that Epson made for the EPSON Stylus Photo R800, R1800, R1900, R2000?
Inkpot.ca is ink owl's distributor in Canada. They said ?it is compatible with STS WJ824
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I can't answer your question.? You might try asking Joe Castello (sp?)? at STS.? I'm not at home,? so I can't get phone? numbers?for you.
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thanks for the reply Paul. For context is the glop-wj824 supposed to be the same gloss optimizer that Epson made for the EPSON Stylus Photo R800, R1800, R1900, R2000?
Inkpot.ca is ink owl's distributor in Canada. They said ?it is compatible with STS WJ824
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thanks for the reply Paul. For context is the glop-wj824 supposed to be the same gloss optimizer that Epson made for the EPSON Stylus Photo R800, R1800, R1900, R2000?
Inkpot.ca is ink owl's distributor in Canada. They said ?it is compatible with STS WJ824
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I made my own dilution base for a while,? but I stayed away from getting into glossy or semi glossy mixes.? I was afraid of making a mix that would clog inkjet heads.? So when I went to printing mostly on semi glossy papers, I stayed with STS dilution base.
Paul
I haven't heard back from Joe, so I'm waiting on a reply from the general sales team about glop = wj824.
On the octoinks it looks like they're sold out.
Paul, did you ever have a formula to make my own glop?
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?I scoured the internet. Found a Canadian website with GO.
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I haven't heard back from Joe, so I'm waiting on a reply from the general sales team about glop = wj824.
On the octoinks it looks like they're sold out.
Paul, did you ever have a formula to make my own glop?
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Here's what sparked my question. I picked up a 7880. Didn't get used much, but has been sitting for over a decade. Ink lines are empty in spots (guessing evaporation?) My suspicion is the ink near the cartridges is dried up. You can see the ink coming out of the cart, but empty everywhere else.
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I want to run power cleans or INIT and flush something like Piezo through, but that's going to be expensive. If I try with Paul's base formula that's a lot cheaper.
**I did check that everything else works, including the air pump, boards, just no ink moving. And don't have enough ink in the OEM cartridges to do a power clean. I guess the easiest thing is to just try.
I did find this video on YouTube. Just using distilled water.?
https://youtu.be/QERSpXKbpy4?si=ofeIYZmEHFinN3-T
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Hendrik Kuhlmann