Digital BW, The Print

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 03:39:56AM -0000, Steven Karafyllakis wrote:
> 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.

I spent some time Googling and poking around for this, but I didn't
find it.  I'm using Mac OS X.  Got a link handy?

> 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.

That sounds like work.  :-)  Does MIS sell all of that as a kit?  I
guess I'll pick up another pre-filled cart for now so I can keep
printing while I figure out how to buy and use all this stuff.
Thanks.

-- 
 Ben Rosengart                                          ben@...
       "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