Digital BW, The Print

* -----Original Message-----
* From: Dean Beattie [mailto:dizzyashell@deanmbeattiephoto.com] 
* Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 9:09 PM
* To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
* Subject: [Digital BW] Re: clog from hell
* 
* 
* Hi Jim,
* 
*    I was told not to do that either after I did it.  I'm 
* waiting on a new 
* color cartridge for my Epson 1200.  Is it possible the one color 
* could have been out of ink before the other colors. All of my color 
* liders are set the same. There is no more of one color than the 
* others. It was wierd, half way thru the print the tonality changed, 
* nothing came out of the yellow port during the test pattern. I'm 
* hoping the windex added to the pad helps. I'm stuck big time if it 
* doesn't.

Dean,

I had an Epson 1200. You cannot rely on the on-screen readouts of ink levels
that the Epson Print Monitor software displays. The levels shown are based
upon keeping a count of how many pages you have printed since you last
changed cartridges and estimating how much ink has been used. This is not
very accurate. In the color cartridge with 5 ink positions one of them is
going to run out before the others and it is usually the Yellow.

With the 6-color photo printers where the Cyan and Magenta are both split
between over two positions (Cyan and Photo Cyan; Magenta and Photo Magenta)
there is not enough Yellow ink to keep up.

Even with the chipped cartridges in the 1270 and 1280 I have had the Yellow
run dry when the Print Monitor indicated there was still ink in the
cartridge. In general I just ignore the Print Monitor and run the cartridges
until one position stops printing.

I would guess that you just ran out of Yellow and a new cartridge will get
you going again.

Martin Wesley
http://www.carolyn.cc/Guests/MartinWesley/pages/MW_01.html
http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html