Digital BW, The Print

I had my 1280 fail last night. I changed color cartridges and when I placed the new cartridge in the red media light did not go out and the print head carriage would not return to the right when I pressed the Orange button.

I was changing hand filled cartridges with aftermarket chips. I removed the chip from the empty cartridge, installed it on the full cartridge, reset the chip and nothing. Tried a new chip no luck. Installed the old Epson color cartridge and no luck. Tried a new color cartridge and no luck. All of the cartridges ran fine in my 1270 so the problem was not there.

Fortunately I am under warrantee and Epson is shipping me an exchange unit.

Has anyone else experiences a similar problem like this when using aftermarket cartridge chips? It probably is not related, but I am a little nervous about the possibility that the aftermarket chips might have damaged something in the printer.

Thanks,
Martin


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