Digital BW, The Print

* -----Original Message-----
* From: Joel Beeson [mailto:bluzdoctor@...] 
* Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 2:44 PM
* To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
* Subject: [Digital BW] I'm on a deadline...Epson 1280 doesn't 
* print...help!
* 
* 
* Hello:
* 
* I just set up a new (it's been in a box since early last 
* year) Epson Photo 1280 
* to print an exhibit of my student's work. I never installed 
* the OEM Epson color 
* cartridges, but instead, installed a set of MIS VM hextone 
* cartridges that were 
* just delivered yesterday.
* 
* I installed the Epson driver on my Apple G4 (OS X 10.2.8) and 
* followed the 
* directions for installing the MIS cartridges (two cleaning 
* cycles). I cannot get it 
* to print an image out of PhotoShop, nor even the Epson head 
* nozzle test 
* pattern.
* 
* It sends the data to the 1280, the machine goes through the 
* motions of 
* printing, but no ink is laid on the paper. I cleaned the head 
* three times and 
* then quit trying.
* 
* I'm on a deadline for the exhibit, so any advice and help 
* would be most 
* welcome.
* 
Joel,

Check and make sure you removed the tape covering the vent holes in the top
of the cartridges. If the vent holes are not open the ink can't flow out.

If they are properly vented put in the Epson cartridges and see what you
get. If those are not working then you have a problem with the printer.

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