Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message -----
From: "janishilesh" <shilesh.jani@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:55 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: 1280 Failure and After Market Chips


> How do you know it was the color cartridge that was the culprit?

Shilesh,

The Epson Monitor software tells you which cartridge is having a problem.
The 1270 was nice because it had separate lights of each. I have had bad
aftermarket chips before but they did not seem to harm the printer. I just
used another one and was okay.
> 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.

It does not recognize brand new genuine Epson cartridges now and the red
light will not go off.
>
> 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.

Paul has noted that there are some variations but I am surprised at how
large it is between your printer an mine. If all the driver settings are
correct then I would put some Epson color cartridges in it and run some
tests. A color test wedge might reveal a problem that is not obvious in
grayscale.

How did you get Epson to replace
> yours? Any suggestions?

I called their support number and the technician had me do several routine
checks and when the problem did not clear she told me she would have a
replacement shipped to me. They require a credit card number to cover the
cost of the printer before they ship it out so you need to be honest about
what the problem is.
>
> Good luck. This is scary!

I know! And now I have two of them broken! I really want to run a bunch of
ink tests with different MIS inks and I now I am scared to use the after
market chips. I have never had a problem with the chips on my CIS by the
way.

Thanks,
Martin

>
> --- 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.
> >
(snip)