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Re: 7600 -- Switching black inks

2005-05-21 by Tyler Boley

Here is the easiest solution, go to this extremely huge page-
http://www.outbackphoto.com/printinginsights/pi013/Epson9600.html
scroll down to- 4/25/2004 How to change from matte black to photo
black without wasting money and ink.
Follow the directions, it works.
Know as the "african" method, despite the above description, it works
from PK to MK also.
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark"
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> After I cleaned out my 7600, it would not accept the PK cart. I got
a "wrong
> ink" error message.  So, I just put back in the MK cart and all is fine.
> 
>  
> 
> However, I'd previously put in a PK cart with MK ink in it to fool the
> printer into showing all the media types.  I did not go through the
Epson
> ink switching procedure because the ink in the carts is the same -
Eboni.
> So, I must have done something that got around an Epson safeguard. 
Maybe I
> switched from MK to PK with the printer off.
> 
>  
> 
> Any ideas on a way to switch ink and avoid the error message would
be most
> appreciated.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>  
> 
> Paul
> 
> www.PaulRoark.com <http://www.paulroark.com/>  
> 
>  
> 
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