Digital BW, The Print

Hi Mr.Roark
As my first experience at refilling, I did exactly that on my 1430. The "yellow" cartridge showing a low level (flashing light on), I decided to top all the cartridges.

After that, I've found that the printer was doing it's normal cycle, only to see another flashing light on another (or two) cartridges. I had to remove and replace these cartridges, let the printer do is priming cycle only to find another flashing cartridge. I did a round-robin of removing cartridges until everything went to normal.
Since the priming cycle uses ink (I think) I can see that my "full cartridges" are already emptier.

This is a costly experience! Maybe the "have a second set of cartridges ready" will cure this?

I'm still printing...

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Paul Roark <roark.paul@...> wrote:
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> I do top off 1400 (and 1100) auto-reset carts.  I mostly ignore the ink
> monitor readings.  However, when one is very low that I know has not
> recently been topped off, I take that as a time to check all.  The chips
> and ink levels do get out of sync.  This is not an optimal solution, but
> pulling the carts to check them when there is any suggestion that one is
> low or I have a printing project I'm going to start seems to avoid running
> out of ink at an inopportune moment.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
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> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 6:57 AM, rfsteckmeyer <steckmeyer@...>wrote:
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> > I am running an Epson 1430 with new MIS cartridges, MIS ink configured as
> > Eboni 4 + as per Paul Rorak. I am making progress but find cartridge
> > maintenance cumbersome. I think I read recently that Paul tops off all of
> > his cartridges once one is designated needing refilling. Am I imagining
> > this? If not will the chips reset for the partially full cartridges if I
> > just top them off? Will the ink levels work as if they were all new full
> > cartridges. Thanks
> >
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