Digital BW, The Print

Hi Ben:

Regarding the Epson Utility, it's  usually in Applications/Utilities. 
You should drag it into the dock for easy access, because you'll be 
using it often.

This stuff is fairly easy once you get the hang of it. MIS sells 
everything you need. I suggest more than a couple syringes, because if 
you're filling all the colours you want one syringe per colour (wash 
and dry later). Be prepared to get inky fingers. The Back fill adaptors 
are very important. They suck out air from the cart (like a primer) 
that will impede ink flow. They can also suck the last dregs out of 
your oem cart.

Leslie Otterbein


On Jul 18, 2005, at 8:28 AM, Ben Rosengart wrote:

> 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.