Printhead cleaner package for Epson C44UX

[John bowden]

On Thursday 17 May 2007 17:55:26 Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007 11:27, John Bowden wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 May 2007 19:34:00 Nigel Henry wrote:
> > > I have FC1,2,3,5,and 6 on this machine that has the printer attached to
> > > it, and am sure that I've been able to clean the printheads of my Epson
> > > C44UX before. I thought the maintenance stuff was accessable in CUPS,
> > > but I'm darned if I can find it in CUPS on FC2.
> > >
> > > Anyone any suggestions?
> > >
> > > I admit that I don't use the printer much, and saw a comment while
> > > Googling about Epson print heads drying out with infrequent use, byt no
> > > solution offered.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions gratefully received.
> > >
> > > Nigel.
> >
> > Give Mtink a try it works with my Epson stylus C62. It will also tell you
> > how much ink is in the tanks.
>
> Thanks John. I installed from the mtink tarball on FC2, and it's currently
> showing the ink tanks full.
>
> Nigel.
>
> Thanks also to the other folks that replied.

One word of warning. If the printer has an empty ink tank and a red flashing 
light, Mtink gets its knickers in a twist and won't be able to interrogate 
the tank sensors. This is what it does on my C62 with none Epson ink tanks. 
So if you don't keep an eye on the ink levels you won't know which tank is 
empty. Plus I always seem to  get 20+ more pages of text after the red tank 
empty light flashes!