Digital BW, The Print

Hello Ben;

If you can't tell which ink is out you probably don't have the Epson 
status monitor installed-it's avilable on the Epson website if you 
don't for some reason have it on disc. If it's the color cart that's 
out, you'll have to replace it or reset the chip. If you're going to 
be doing this on an ongoing basis, you should invest in: a chip-
restter, a set of bulk inks, a couple of syringes and blunt needles, 
a couple bottom fill adapters (for pulling air bubbles out of the 
bottom of the carts to initialize them), and a set of 1280 
spongeless easy-fill carts. In the long run this will get the cost 
down to about 1/4 or less of the price of prefilled carts.

Steve

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Ben Rosengart 
<yahoo.com@n...> wrote:
> Hello printers,
> 
>   I use an Epson 1280, with pre-filled UT2 cartridges and the Roark
> workflow.  I seem to be out of ink -- but I don't see any way to 
tell
> which ink it is that I'm out of.
> 
> Once I figure that out -- if it is not the black, do I have to buy 
a
> whole new five-color cartridge?  Or is it possible to refill one of
> the slots?  I've poked around on the MIS website, but I haven't 
found
> the answer.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
>  
> -- 
>  Ben Rosengart                                          ben@n...
>        "Young people should be seen and not heard, because they're
>         good-looking but not too bright.  We're pretty bright now,
>         but we're ugly." -- Grace Slick on the '60s youth movement