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Re: [Digital BW] MIS EZ cartridges

2005-08-21 by Adam Maas

Myron Gochnauer wrote:

> Does anyone know whether the EZ refillable cartridges for warm tone 
> and neutral tone are different?  Obviously you would fill them with 
> different inks, and physically they would be identical. But are the 
> chips different, so that a chip would indicate not only the position 
> (eg Cyan) but also whether it was warm or neutral?
>
> And for that matter, what is the difference between the EZ chips and 
> the regular colour chips? Aside from perhaps identifying themselves 
> differently, do the chips somehow determine how the ink is set down 
> so that an EZ Cyan-position chip would do different things with its 
> ink than a regular Cyan chip?
>
> As you can tell, I don't have a very good idea of exactly what the 
> chips do other than making sure you have them in the right places and 
> telling you when you are running out of ink.
>
> Thanks.
> Myron
>
The Chips will report themselves as if they were the colour cartridge at 
that position. So a warm or neutral Cyan EZ cartridge will tell the 
printer it's a cyan colour cartridge. The only  things the chips do is 
report how much ink is in them, andwhich position they are for.


-Adam

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