Digital BW, The Print

On my Stylus Photo 1500 (same as Artisan 1430 in the States), with MIS Auto Reset Chips.  If you remove, refill and replace a cart which wasn't indicating empty, or at least below warning level.  It will not be recognised as full, so will indicate empty when the cart is still actually quite full.  I would suggest you only refill this printer/cart combo when the warning shows and only the indicated cart.

I don't know if this feature is over-ridden if you short out the two top terminals on the chip and am wary of trying it.

My printer has always stopped between prints when it thinks a cart is near empty.

Ross

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, William Harvey <will@...> wrote:
>
> 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
> 
> *****************************************
> 
> 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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