Digital BW, The Print

It is something you do right there on the printer. I kind of have my
doubts about the firmware being that flexable in the desktop units.
Don't think there is much control there.

I firt heard about this from Lenny Eiger who was contemplating doing
it on a 10K.After I mentioned this Mark Savoia did this on his 10K
when he installed Ultrachrome carts in an Archival printer. He's fine
with it and weighs carts for content levels.

I don't know of anyone taking the trouble to do it in any other
printer but I assume the big ones are similar if not identical. Check
the printers service manual.

The procedure is:

Turn Printer Off

Press and hold the Paper Source + Cut Eject + Paper Feed buttons then
turn on the printer and release the button when the View Counters Menu
is displayed.

Press the Select Type utton until you see Service Config Menu in the
display

Press the Item buttom until you see NPD= in the display.
There are three values that can be set for the ED MODE value (which is
chip reader off), they are:
0 NullX= Europe and North America , N- Asia and the rest of the world.
use the Paper Feed - or the Paper Feed + to move up or down. When
complete, Press Enter 

Turn Power Off

Turn Power On, wait for the ready light


That's it for the 10K. These instruction are listed in the Manual for
Service Techs I assume.


john






--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark"
<paul.roark@...> wrote:
>
> >... If you wanted you could turn off the entire
> > chip reading mechanism in the firmware.
> 
> Is that done with Epson controls or with a third party utility?  Will it
> work in desktop units?  What happens if there is no chip at all
installed?
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>