Digital BW, The Print

Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:59 am (PST) . Posted by: 
"Michael" michael3442 
 
 
1) No more Epson ink for me. I'm about to order refillable carts for my Epson 
R2400 and would like to hear some opinions on which chips to purchase. There are 
the manual reset chips and the ARC automatic reset chips. The manual chips seem 
pretty self-explanatory, however the ARC chips seem a little confusing, at least 
to me. Ideally I'd like to leave the new refillable, "top fill" carts in the 
machine and top them off when needed. But my research comes up with a variety of 
opinions that suggest using the ARC chips may not be as easy and straightforward 
as I'm hoping for. So do a few of the many readers of this great forum have 
actual experience with these chips that you could share?


Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:10 pm (PST) . Posted by: 
"Jacques Caron" jacquescrn 
 
 
2) Using my new ARC refillable carts from MIS Associates, I thought also just to 
refill them in the printer. They say that turning the printer off then on is 
resetting the chip. I wrote to MIs Associates and they told me that I still have 
to remove the cartridge, refill (with the same method as for the first filling) 
then put it back in the printer. That should do the trick.
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1) For color printing I found it just as easy to refill and reset the OEM 
cartridge I looked on ebay and found some used empty OEM carts for less than $1 
in bulk still less than an ARC cartridge set. I have a set of MIS cartridges but 
during print runs wanted to have several sets around so it made replacing and 
keeping printing much faster than stopping having to get out the inks and then 
refill while printing this is a fine place to make a refill error and I just 
found it much easier to have several cartridges ready to go for color. for B&W 
the printing is more deliberate so not as much a need for having a number of 
cartridges ready to go although I do have an extra set for purging the head when 
I will be away for some time.
 
2) I have refilled a different model epson and hp printers with the cartridge in 
the printer. Sometimes it was necessary to reset the cartridge As time passed 
and printers became smarter it got more complicated to do this type of refill. 
This may be the reason as perhaps the printer sees a resetting as a new 
cartridge like a chip resetter function. another reason is that it is dificult 
to know when you are full so the ink will overfill and pool n the top of the 
cartridge and possibly drips could get inside the chasis of the printer. Since 
the chip on the cartridge is just above the chip getting ink in there could 
really do some serious damage to the contact surfaces.
 
Bill Lewis