Digital BW, The Print

It sounds like it could be bad chips on the carts OR something wrong with
the circuit board in the printer OR a bad printer driver in your computer. I
would try reloading/updating the driver first to see if that clears the
problem. If it's not that then see about the chips and lastly the board.

 

HTH

 

Tom 

 

From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bill
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:55 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Ink waste - cartridges vs CIS

 

Tom

Yes, ink is passed to the waste tank on a cleaning cycle, but this 
machine also does it every time I turn it on and do nothing else. 

Also, I tried to print some business cards with MSWord and the driver 
started to pass data to the printer and then stopped to telling me 
that I had selected the wrong paper source, which I had not. Then it 
would pump ink into the waste tank. I never could get the business 
cards to print on this printer, so I sent it to an old HP printer and 
it worked fine.

You touch on an interesting point. There are three (3) cartridges in 
the CIS that the printer reads as not being Epson cartridges. They 
are Light Cyan (T0595), Light Black (T0597) and Yellow (T0594). When 
I look at the volume of ink used out of the CIS tanks the Light Cyan 
has been used the most and the Light Black and Yellow are not far 
behind in volume used.

So, would this imply that there is something wrong with the chips on 
these three cartridges? 

Bill LaFever

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com> , "Tom Maugham" 
<Thomas@...> wrote:
>
> I really don't understand how one system would waste more ink than 
another.
> From what I understand ink is only passed to the waste ink tank as 
a result
> of cleaning cycles so something must be causing additional cleaning 
cycles
> or perhaps more vigorous cleaning cycles. If you are getting a lot 
of clogs
> then the additional cleaning cycles will use more ink, if the CIS 
thinks it
> is running out of ink and automatically resetting the chip on the 
CIS that
> may cause it to run more cleaning cycles, if the chips are not 
communicating
> properly to the on-board circuit that may cause more cleaning 
cycles. Since
> you have two different printers perhaps something in the one 
printer may
> cause more ink to be passed during a cleaning cycle.
> 
> 
> 
> Tom 
> 

 



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