Digital BW, The Print

Here are a couple of things that have sometimes worked for me:
- Assuming you have a chip resetter, reset all the offending chips.
- Sometime the tabs that mount the chips to the cartridges extend
  slightly above the face of a chip and prevent good contact. Use
  an Xacto knife to trim the tabs flush with the face of the chip.
- Don't forget you can always "borrow" the chips from the color
  carts that shipped with the Epson

Chips do go bad -- or get destroyed by the printer -- I lost two in
one day last week. The only defense is to always have spares on hand.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "p3guru32371"
<coryjenkins@...> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
>