I'm sorry, I meant Mr. Wesley. Its been a long day. I looked at both links you had attached, great work my friend. Take care and thanks once again for the info. -Dean www.deanmbeattiephoto.com Fine Art Black and White Photography --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Martin Wesley" <mwesley250@e...> wrote: > * -----Original Message----- > * From: Dean Beattie [mailto:dizzyashell@d...] > * 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
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[Digital BW] Re: clog from hell
2003-11-22 by Dean Beattie
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