Digital BW, The Print

You can see if those prongs are bent, by looking in the cavity where the
cartridges go. Your black side is a good reference of what the color
side should look like. If the prongs are all messed up, which is very
likely after your chipless insertion, that small black connector which
contains the prongs has to replaced. Really not that hard to do if you
are a bit handy. Now Epson doesn't seem to sell those connectors, so
there is one problem.  In case you do find the connector, like from
another dead printer, it is a manageable DIY repair unless you have no
patience or are all thumbs.
 
What seems inevitable, is really not. If someone inserts a chipless cart
by accident, do not pull it out, but slide a piece of thin 3/4 - 1"
narrow cardboard or plastic between the cart and the head, where the
connector it located. You got to shove it down quite a bit to "cover and
protect" the prongs. After that, the cart can be removed without
damaging the printer.
 
Once you confirm that those prongs are definitely bent out of shape, I
would take it up with MIS again and make them pick up the repair bill.
They have no business shipping out carts without chips. Also that
warning should have been packaged with each cartridge, in a way that you
have to verify the presence of the chip before you can insert it.
 
Frits
 
 
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The harm that a chipless cart can do to the printer is that the metal
springs in the print head that contact the chip get snagged in the
indentation where the chip belongs, and then bent out of shape when the
cart
is forcibly removed. If this is what happened, then it's their fault; if
that's not what happened, then it's probably true that something else
caused
the printer to go on the blink.
 
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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...
 
 


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