Digital BW, The Print

Suggestion - life's too short - go get a R1900. Mine works great and
it appears the 1800 cartridges are compatilble with 1900 as the
refillable ones I got were for 1800 and worked just fine in 1900.

Mike

2008/10/21 colingruk <ColinJConway@...>:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Sarah Renkes"
> <sagaface@...> wrote:
>>
>> Darn it. I'm not filling these carts myself. This my first set and
> I bought them already filled
>> from MIS. I don't have the equipment to do what you have suggested.
>>
>> yikes. this is turning into a bit of a nightmare. I have someone
> waiting for a print and I'm
>> completely stuck.
>
> Sarah
>
> I am going to start by apologizing: you probably won't like what I
> am about to write. I have been having the same problems that you
> describe since I bought my r1800. I have been throwing good money
> after bad. It is a daytime nightmare. I suggest you dispose of the
> printer and buy something else.
>
> First I used carts from MIS and now I have a continuous flow
> system. I use Eboni in the Y, MK and PK slots and PKN in the R, B
> and C slots. I seldom get all working properly but sometimes I can
> use either the Eboni or PKN inks.
>
> The cleaning cycle Epson has on this machine is aggressive. It
> creates bubbles in the cart and the ink does not flow. I do not
> think I have particulate clogs. I suspect the use of this
> aggressive cleaning system was a matter of Epson policy to increase
> its ink sales. I think more ink has been through the waste outlet
> onto the pads than onto paper. I have had to have the counter reset
> and the soak pads changed at a cost of £125 cUS$220.
>
> I have used a syringe to draw out the ink through the cart exit.
> (see the post above). I no longer switch off the machine because,
> when you switch on, those lovely people at Epson designed the
> machine to do a head clean. Someone once told me that, at the close
> of business each working day, top Epson Executives in Japan roll
> about on the floor laughing at the money they are making from their
> inks.
>
> Before that change, using the Epson maintenance routine, I was back
> to a nearly white piece of paper after doing the nozzle checks.
>
> This morning I ran the SSC utility. I wonder if it is less
> aggressive than the Epson one or if I am deluding myself. I
> started, would you believe with perfect nozzle checks in the MK and
> PK positions. I printed a half page of the purge file from MIS.
> Ran the SSC cleaning cycle and had perfect nozzle checks for the B,
> PK, MK, and C positions. In both cases ink was flowing in the other
> channels but there were about 10% gaps. I printed a half purge page
> again, and went to walk the dog – yes, the dog not the printer. The
> printer is lucky I don't kick dogs!
>
> I ran another SSC cleaning cycle and nozzle check. The Y, M and C
> channels were perfect but ink from the MK and PK nozzles only fired
> through about 10% of the nozzles. No ink flowed at all through the
> R and B carts. Go figure!
>
> I will wait three hours and try again.
>
> Colin
>
>