Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

There have been various revisions of the ARCs to try and keep up with
Epson's efforts to thwart ARCs.

The latest versions of the latest printers i.e R1900 can only be auto reset
by removing the cartridges and then only when they are noted as in need of
changing. Doesn't work until then. I've heard rumours that the early
versions of the R1900 would allow reset without removing the cartridges, but
Epson changed the firmware on later versions to combat this. That's my
experience, if anyone has R1900 ARC chips that behave differently then I'd
be interested in knowing more.

With K7 and R1900 the cartridges are usually 25 - 50% full when the printer
says they are empty.

Mike




2009/9/6 pr_roark <pr_roark@...>

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>
> "deanwork2003" <deanwork2003@...> wrote:
> >
> > When you use these chipped carts do they work until
> > refilling before having to reset the chip?
>
> There may be different types of auto-reset chips. The ones I have either
> reset themselves as a matter of course when they get too low, or at most
> require me to push the ink change button or turn the printer on and off. It
> sounds like Tyler has some that are more of a nuisance.
>
> I personally don't like the auto-reset chips except on a CIS. As a
> practical matte, they don't seem to accurately tell me when the carts are
> low (or force me to refill). So, I often just ignore them and do nozzle
> checks or, if one appears low I check the ink levels visually off all the
> carts (pulling them) before an important printing job.
>
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com <http://www.paulroark.com/>
>
> 
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