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From: History Fan on 3 Mar 2005 17:03
I have an uncle who owns a Epson C60 inkjet printer. It's about 4
years old and has never produced good print quality. This is really
frustrating considering how much money he has spent on the ink cartridges.

As his computer "advisor", I have tinkered with the printer's
maintenance programs to no avail, used compressed air to clean out the
machine, reinstalled the printer driver....but still print quality is not
good. He's used it on two computers with the same poor quality.

The C60 printer plugs into his computer via a parallel port cord. Is
it possible using a USB cord might improve print quality??



From: Burt on 3 Mar 2005 17:16
method of connecting to the computer should have no effect on quality of the
prints. You didn't describe how the print quality was poor. Color balance?
banding? original mfg inks? type of paper on which you are printing? type
of file you are printing? size and quality of image in the file? If the
printhead is clogged you should write to Art Entlich for his info on how to
clean Epson print heads. email is artistic(a)telus.net I don't know what the
inherent print quality is for the C60 under best of circumstances. If it
produced poor prints new out of the box it sounds like it might be a losing
battle. What is he trying to print? Photos? text? how much will he use
it? Lots of questions to answer.


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> I have an uncle who owns a Epson C60 inkjet printer. It's about 4
> years old and has never produced good print quality. This is really
> frustrating considering how much money he has spent on the ink cartridges.
>
> As his computer "advisor", I have tinkered with the printer's
> maintenance programs to no avail, used compressed air to clean out the
> machine, reinstalled the printer driver....but still print quality is not
> good. He's used it on two computers with the same poor quality.
>
> The C60 printer plugs into his computer via a parallel port cord. Is
> it possible using a USB cord might improve print quality??
>
>


From: measekite on 3 Mar 2005 22:37
No, the parallel is just fine. While I prefer Canon printers there is
no reason why the Epsons should not produce good quality printing. What
are you printing? Are you using or have you used third party ink? If
so what brand? What paper are you using? Check your settings in the
print driver for draft or standard or what ever Epson calls the quality.

History Fan wrote:

> I have an uncle who owns a Epson C60 inkjet printer. It's about 4
>years old and has never produced good print quality. This is really
>frustrating considering how much money he has spent on the ink cartridges.
>
> As his computer "advisor", I have tinkered with the printer's
>maintenance programs to no avail, used compressed air to clean out the
>machine, reinstalled the printer driver....but still print quality is not
>good. He's used it on two computers with the same poor quality.
>
> The C60 printer plugs into his computer via a parallel port cord. Is
>it possible using a USB cord might improve print quality??
>
>
>
>
>
From: Taliesyn on 4 Mar 2005 00:11
History Fan wrote:

> I have an uncle who owns a Epson C60 inkjet printer. It's about 4
> years old and has never produced good print quality. This is really
> frustrating considering how much money he has spent on the ink cartridges.
>
> As his computer "advisor", I have tinkered with the printer's
> maintenance programs to no avail, used compressed air to clean out the
> machine, reinstalled the printer driver....but still print quality is not
> good. He's used it on two computers with the same poor quality.
>
> The C60 printer plugs into his computer via a parallel port cord. Is
> it possible using a USB cord might improve print quality??
>

Can you be more specific about that print quality, or lack of it? What
exactly is wrong with the print? Is it printing badly at all the
different quality settings? And you haven't mentioned anything about the
status of Nozzle Check tests which would reveal if you have clogging in
the printhead. Are these tests normal?

I used to own two Epsons. They normally print with any brand of ink, any
setting, any paper. I'll assume it's Epson brand cartridges he's using
since you said your father has spent a lot of money on them. But that
wouldn't make any difference in the world. If nozzle checks reveal
clogging, that would probably be your culprit.

-Taliesyn
From: Arthur Entlich on 5 Mar 2005 07:32
Changing the interface is not likely to improve print quality. You use
the expression "print quality is no good" but you don't explain what you
mean by that, making it hard to help. Is the color wrong? Does the
color band? Is it too light, too dark, smeared, bleeding, dots to big?
What?

The C60 is a medium-low end dye printer with 4 ink colors, but capable
of fairly high resolution images, and with the right paper, it should
provide you with near photographic results.

If you can be more specific I may be able to help. If you scan a
section of the bad printing at about 300 ppi and send me a section about
2" x 2" as an attachment privately, I may be able to diagnose what is wrong.

Art


History Fan wrote:

> I have an uncle who owns a Epson C60 inkjet printer. It's about 4
> years old and has never produced good print quality. This is really
> frustrating considering how much money he has spent on the ink cartridges.
>
> As his computer "advisor", I have tinkered with the printer's
> maintenance programs to no avail, used compressed air to clean out the
> machine, reinstalled the printer driver....but still print quality is not
> good. He's used it on two computers with the same poor quality.
>
> The C60 printer plugs into his computer via a parallel port cord. Is
> it possible using a USB cord might improve print quality??
>
>
>
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