Digital BW, The Print

Hello,

I am sorry to read about your frustrating experience.

Reading that money is tight and that this one will have to do for a
year here are my suggestions:

1- Feed it only from the rear with 8.5x11 or larger paper. Make final
prints on any high quality paper and proofs and normal prints on cheap
matte (yet excellent) PremierArt BW or RedRiver Polar Matte.

2- If you do not need to print in color, next time a color cart gets
empty cause of cleaning cycles etc. put your money for this one cart
toward empty refillable carts. Fill them with Paul Roark's homemade
clear Carbon-6 base (without the Photoflo, so it's a simple mix of
distilled water and glycerin U.S.P.). If you cannot find empties, buy
cleaning carts from MIS and replace the chips with your Epson cart
chips (it's easy and works fine). Chip reseter needed. 

I've been running my R1800 like this for months and it's the only
system-ink type that reliably provides top quality prints.

Tried colors, OEM color, diluted expensive grey water etc. and the
best from that printer always came with this simple and very
innexpensive 3MK+water-glycerin setup.

Denis


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Sarah Renkes"
<sagaface@...> wrote:
>
> Colin, don't apologize. I am thankful to be hearing frm those of you
that have had issues 
> with this printer, because before I decided to get one (it is used,
no warranty), I read only 
> glowing reports about them, in specific reference to the 3Mk method
of printing. There 
> wasn't anything negative on the board here that would have made me
pause. Your report 
> is certainly not a good one by a long shot...so sorry!
> 

> I have dashed to Staples three times now when the ink has run out in
a color position, 
> which prevents me from printing or even loading paper. It is AWFUL.
I called an Epson tech 
> and he confirmed that all operation stops when any of the cartridges
are out (or READ as 
> out, since I know they still have ink in them!). My 2200 would let
me print BO even if a 
> color ink showed empty. Not this one.
> 
> I do intend to purchase a refilling kit to at least fill the Eboni
carts myself. Other than that 
> I may just lay my head down on the desk and have a good cry. And
begin the saving 
> process all over again for another printer. I waited a year before
being able to purchase 
> this one. 
> 
> "Diappointed' hardly covers it.
> 
> thanks all,
> Sarah