Digital BW, The Print

Man. This all sounds like a big headache, removing carts when they are half full ( exactly what Epson wants of course). And I assume you have different carts going off at different times right in the middle of a project.

What about these 13" printers with a CFS? Are any of them working more smoothly? I want to suggest a trouble free printer of this size to students to use for 6 or 7 channel black and white and I'm still confused if any procedure is worth the trouble.

John



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "tboleyyh" <tyler@...> wrote:
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> I'd better correct my post... it was in reply to John's questions about 1400 carts, and my comments were directed at the behavior of my 1900 carts, which I did not mention. Michael has clarified that the 1900 behavior may be unique. I had 2 sets of 1400 carts from 2 sources, and honestly don't recall the specifics of their reset characteristics, other than mixing up the sets does not work...
> Tyler
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Michael King <drmrking@> wrote:
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> > 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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