Digital BW, The Print

Martin,

How do you know it was the color cartridge that was the culprit? I 
had a similar problem at one time, also on a relatively new 1280, 
also with reset carts. In my case, it was the black chip that was the 
problem. Even though it seemed to reset (using the Lyson chip 
resetter), it would not work on the printer. So I threw it out.

If you were changing only the color cart, but the black chip failed 
(some unknown glitch), I wonder what would happen if you put new 
Epson carts on both the black and color positions. Just some thoughts.

I have not replied to you in detail about the target prints you sent 
me. But I have been wondering why the Roark curves give me less than 
smooth gradients on my 1280. Yours are so much better. I am begining 
to think it is printer related. How did you get Epson to replace 
yours? Any suggestions?

Good luck. This is scary!

Shilesh

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Martin Wesley" 
<mwesley250@e...> wrote:
> 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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