Digital BW, The Print

Thanks a lot Steve. I expected to have to tap into the one way valve
between the plastic bag containing the ink and the pressure chamber.
Same as the large format Epson printer with pressurized carts. It
looks like the major limitation in refilling the 3800 cartridges is,
at the moment, the unavailability of chip resetters. A friend of mine
contacted MIS: they say that refillable carts for the 3800 are quite
close. 

Cheers,
  Daniela




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones"
<cj@...> wrote:
>
> Steve asked me to post this for him because he's having a browser
> problem and can't post to the forum.
> - cj
> 
> 
> >any following to your first attempt at resetting 3800 cartridges? I
> >am very ansious to test the Eboni ink with that printer.
> 
> 
> Hello Daniela;
> 
> Regrets, but no, I have made no progress with the resetter. I did
> figure out how to refill the carts though, so you could pull out the
> Epson MK ink and fill it with Eboni if you're really up for an
> adventure. It is MESSY: you have to pry of the plastic collar that
> keeps the rubber gasket in place at the ink outlet port. Then you can
> get a bottom-fill adapter in it (you can probably start with this, I
> think you can suck out ink regardless) and suck out the ink. There's a
> small spring under the gasket that I think keeps a plastic ball in
> proper place (I didn't realize it was there and lost it) to either
> allow ink out, or dis-allow ink in. Once you have the ink out, you
> gently pull the rubber gasket out, and then tap out the spring and
> ball onto a piece of paper towel. At that point you can easily refill
> the cart, and reverse the above steps to put it in working order. It's
> good that the carts are fairly big, I wouldn't want to go through all
> this too often!
> 
> Best Luck,
> 
> Steve
>