Digital BW, The Print

Well, I am having problems.  I installed the carts properly, ensuring
that they all 'clicked' and that they were in the correct position. 
However, the printer is telling me... 

"ink carts cannot be recognized or are installed incorrectly"

i have pulled them all out, an put them back in at least 10 times, all
to no avail.

i cannot recall, but i think i remember reading somewhere that
occasionally chips go bad, and need to be replaced, at a cost of $2
each.  

Short of the hassle of re-chipping all 6 carts, are there any other
suggestions anyone could offer?

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "p3guru32371"
<coryjenkins@...> wrote:
>
> As i mentioned in a previous post, (Epson R220 compared to Epson 
> R260) i went ahead and picked up an R340, and got the R220 inks from 
> MIS (the UT-R2 to be specific).
> 
> Well, my printer, matte paper and MIS inkset arrived yesterday 
> evening and i plan to run my first set of tests tonight using CS2.  I 
> know that a generous Paul Roark has made several free .icc profiles 
> for use within Photoshop for the inkset and paper i purchased.  i 
> plan to start there.
> 
> I have also read up a bit on Quad Tone Rip, in the user guide written 
> by Tom Moore, and know that i would need to calibrate, and then 
> linearize before i make any meaningful prints.  
> 
> eventually though i will want to move up to a different paper, that 
> likely will not have a free profile built.  So, instead of going 
> through the time, ink and paper to calibrate and linearize myself in 
> QTR, I would be more than happy to pay the going rate $25-50 for a 
> custom built .icc profile.  However, the people i have emailed that 
> do custom profiles only do them for color inksets and targets.
> 
> So my question (finally) is this...Does anyone on this board know of 
> someone who makes b+w .icc profiles.  Or for that matter, does anyone 
> on this board want to make a few bucks and do a couple for me when i 
> make a decision on the papers i would like to use?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any info.  After i make a few prints and get 
> through initial learning curve i will post my opinions on how it all 
> worked out on this thread.
> 
> As a point of reference, this is the equipment and workflow that i 
> use.
> Lenses:  Autofocus, Prime
> Capture: 11.1mp DSLR Raw files
> Adobe Camera RAW: 16bit, 300dpi, PSD files
> 
> Photoshop: Crop, Straighten, Levels, Channel-Monochrome Convert to 
> b+w, Curves, Any other creative effects i may want to make, Highpass 
> Sharpen, Image-Size-Resample if required for output size.
> 
> Thanks again.
> Cory
>