Digital BW, The Print

Igor,

In my printer, and I imagine all Epsons, when I raise the hold-down 
on the cartridge I wish to refill; the cartridge itself is lifted off 
the posts that hold open the poppet valves. This effectively closes 
the poppet valve but does not allow air to flow into the cartridge. 
Refilling outside the printer would seem to be much cleaner than 
trying to maneuver in such a close space. When the cartridge is re-
inserted into the printer and over the posts, if there is any air in 
the post, it's removed when you use the utility to tell it to reset 
the counters on the cartridge replaced; because the printer will do a 
head cleaning routine when the printer is restarted.


As far as waiting for and out of ink light to start flashing, I 
simply keep an account of how many 8 x 10 sheets I print. If that is 
not reasonable, simply open the printer and see which ink chamber 
needs ink. This is a good reason to use MIS spongeless carts because 
they will allow your to see the ink level visually. Also the sscerve 
utility will let you see onscreen the ink levels too.

Your friend in Photography,

Johnny





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Igor Wesdorp" 
<iwesdorp@c...> wrote:
> Thank you, but I already found sscerve. But please, anyone, grant me
> an answer to this: 
> 
> Is it not so that by taking the carts out, you create new
> air pockets in the ink outlets (I suppose this is were these air
> pockets arise). Thus, is it not better to leave the carts in the
> printer while filling, and monitoring the ink level by looking from 
above?
> 
> And do you, as with pre-filled carts, use the "out-of-ink-light" as 
an
> indication that you have to do a refill?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> I g o r
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Johnny Eades"
> <jeades1@s...> wrote:
> > There is a utility that will reset the ink levels/chip called 
> > sscerve.exe. If you'll email me offlist, I'll send it. It's about 
> > 750K in size.
> > 
> > Your friend in Photography,
> > 
> > Johnny