Digital BW, The Print

David,
                                     
Again, please be careful about jumping to conclusions. From the information
you provided, the cleaning/capping station is not functioning and nothing
will work correctly until it does. 
 

If the printer's air pressure pump/lines/and carts do not reach the design
pressure within about 10 seconds (due to a leak somewhere or a
malfunctioning air pump), the printer will shut down with an error #1404 (if
I remember correctly). Since that is not happening I'm skeptical about the
carts not pressurizing. But let's make this simple and unequivocal: When the
printer is ready to go, pull the fill plug out of a cart. If it's
pressurized you'll know it. 
 

Apologies, but I'm going to check out of this for the time being. Emails and
work are piling up.
 
Tom
 
Tom Mallonee
Owens Valley Imaging
www.ovimaging.com
760.873.8501
 
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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David
Kachel
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 7:20 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Epson 3800 and B&W inks headache
 
  
Update�

OK, I took the printer to the carwash and�

Kidding aside. Yesterday I noticed (remember all my cartridges are now
filled with Windex) that the LB position cartridge was not draining at all
with all the cleaning.

I swapped chips and positions with the PK cartridge to see if the LB
cartridge was defective. The newly replaced cartridge in the LB position now
drains just fine and this morning I am getting nozzle checks with only a
couple of little line segments missing. I am assuming this will straighten
itself out after the lines fill more completely with ink and everything
settles down. In any case this is the best I've had since I first tried to
set up the system.

So all this trouble lasting well over a year was due to a defective
cartridge that would not pressurize.

David Kachel

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