Digital BW, The Print

Dear all on this thread,

I have a 2880 with refillable carts and auto-reset chips. These chips 
stop the printer, sometimes in mid print, when one cart needs to be 
refilled. The "empty" cart must be removed from the printer and refilled 
and then re-inserted in the printer at which time it resets and the 
printer goes through a cleaning cycle as if an OEM cart were replaced. 
Then the printer finishes printing any print that was interrupted on a 
_separate_ piece of paper, argh!!

If another cart is, say, 5 prints from its re-set then the whole process 
is repeated for that cart, including another cleaning cycle and a 
posssible spoiled print.

This process was annoying and wasted lots of ink and sometimes paper as 
well. I noticed that Inkjetmall (Jon Cone) was offering a chip resetter 
for these types of carts and I bought one.

What I do now is keep track of ink levels by looking at the ink levels 
in the Epson driver. When one cart is near "empty" I remove, refill and 
reset _all_ the carts. Then there is just one cleaning routine and I am 
good to go until one of the carts shows near  "empty" again, I can print 
a lot longer because the cart set starts with all carts _full_. This 
cuts down on the cleaning cycles and there is no waste of paper.

Hope this helps,

Cheers

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On 2/16/2013 11:28 AM, Bill Lewis wrote:
>
> 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.
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> 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
>
> 

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