Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

The fault was mine. I was using the virgin carts and chips from MIS. After
Jim's post I looked closely and the pins on the cartridge sockets of both
printers had been damaged.

I thought back over what I had done and realized my mistake. Suspecting I
had slightly over filled the cartridges I wanted to break the clear bottom
seal and then remove the vent tape to let the cartridges drain a bit. I
decided the best way to do this would be to insert the carts into the
printer to break the seal and then take them out to drain. Unfortunately I
had forgotten to install the chip first so what must have happened is that
without the chip in place the fingers in the printer socket got caught on
the edge of the depression where the chip fits or the nubs that hole the
chip and were bent out of position.

The narrow format printer that most closely matches the 1280 would be the
Photo 890, $299 new and $239 refurbed from Epson. The 820 is on a different
chassis and from past experience with a model on this chassis, slow and
noisy. As far as the driver goes your guess is as good as mine. You would
think they would match but I would not necessarily count on it. If I had a
printer for general purpose I would buy new Epson carts rather than refill.
Too much hassle for the small amount of general printing I do.

I have been using the carts once so that I can use the vacuum fill method
and avoid damaging the cart filter screen. The chips are $5 each so re-using
them and resetting them with the chip resetter makes sense. I do find them a
little difficult to get on and as you can see my inattention to getting them
on before I install them in the printer is likely to cost me several hundred
dollars. I may take my 1200 out of mothballs to do the ink set trials we
discussed just so I don't have to deal with the cartridge issue.

Martin


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 4:23 PM
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] 1280 Failure and After Market Chips


> Martin,
>
> What chip and cartridge system are you using.  I'm getting curious about
the
> realities of 1280 cart filling because of my own 1160 problems, which I'll
> post separately.
>
> It sounds like you re-use the same chip with each cart.  Aside from the
> hassle of having 2 more color positions to mix and fill, are there any
other
> disadvantages to the 1280-chipped virgin-cart-filling procedures?
>
> I might actually be interested in the small, letter size version of the
> 1280.  I think there is an 820 that is, after rebates, only $99.  Do you
> have any idea if that machine uses the same curves as the 1280.  Since I
> have a 3000, I'd only use the smaller printer for daily non-photo printing
> and for small photos.  Of course, I'd also use the machine to support the
> 1280 market.  So, having the driver being the same would be critical.
>
> Paul
>
> ________________
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Martin Wesley [mailto:mwesley250@...]
>   Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:38 AM
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
>   Subject: [Digital BW] 1280 Failure and After Market Chips
>
>
>   I had my 1280 fail last night.
>
>     ...
>   I was changing hand filled cartridges with aftermarket chips.
>    ...
>
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