Digital BW, The Print

The story continues. Not wanting to interrupt my work I went out and
purchased a new Epson 1280. I set it up installing the Epson cartridges, did
nozzle checks, head alignment and printed a purge page. Everything was just
fine so I proceeded with installing the hand loaded cartridges.

I removed the Epson color cartridge and the red light came on as it should.
I inserted the same hand filled cartridge with the second aftermarket chip
(remember I replaced this when I could not get the printer to recognize the
first one.) the light went out meaning it recognized the cartridge.

I removed the black Epson cartridge and the red light again came on as
normal. I then got a fresh hand filled black cartridge with the original
aftermarket chip and installed it. The red light did not go out.

I reinstalled the Epson black cartridge and the red light did not go out.
Essentially the brand new printer is in the identical locked-up condition as
my old one only with this one it does not recognize any black cartridge and
the old one would not recognize any color cartridge. Once again I verified
that the Epson cartridges were all okay by putting them in my 1270.

So it looks like the culprit for locking up two 1280's was a single
aftermarket cartridge chip.

I have a call into MIS to see if they can offer any advice on restoring
either of these printers to operation. I will keep you posted.

Martin Wesley

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Wesley" <mwesley250@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:37 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] 1280 Failure and After Market Chips


> 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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