Digital BW, The Print

But if you fill and RESET the cart with a cart resetter then it will 
show full!

Read 2nd the message below!

By filling all of the carts and resetting all of them when only only 1 
cart truly is "empty" then they all show full and there is only 1 
cleaning routine.

Cheers

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On 2/17/2013 8:05 AM, rossfmj wrote:
>
> 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 
> <mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com>, William 
> Harvey 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
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Default-WH
> >
> > William Harvey
> >
> > From the Beautiful Napa Valley, U.S.A
> >
> > And
> >
> > Mas de Cazes
> >
> > Parisot 82160
> >
> > France
> >
> > Lat. = 44 degrees, 15.1 minutes North
> >
> > Long. = 1 degrees, 50.6 minutes East
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
> 

-- 
Default-WH

William Harvey

From the Beautiful Napa Valley, U.S.A

And

Mas de Cazes

Parisot 82160

France

Lat. = 44 degrees, 15.1 minutes North

Long. = 1 degrees, 50.6 minutes East



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