From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of William
Harvey
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 10:16 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Can I Top off Ink Cartridges
Dear all on this thread,
I have a 2880 with refillable carts and auto-reset chips. These chips
stop the printer, sometimes in mid print, when one cart needs to be
refilled. The "empty" cart must be removed from the printer and refilled
and then re-inserted in the printer at which time it resets and the
printer goes through a cleaning cycle as if an OEM cart were replaced.
Then the printer finishes printing any print that was interrupted on a
_separate_ piece of paper, argh!!
If another cart is, say, 5 prints from its re-set then the whole process
is repeated for that cart, including another cleaning cycle and a
posssible spoiled print.
This process was annoying and wasted lots of ink and sometimes paper as
well. I noticed that Inkjetmall (Jon Cone) was offering a chip resetter
for these types of carts and I bought one.
What I do now is keep track of ink levels by looking at the ink levels
in the Epson driver. When one cart is near "empty" I remove, refill and
reset _all_ the carts. Then there is just one cleaning routine and I am
good to go until one of the carts shows near "empty" again, I can print
a lot longer because the cart set starts with all carts _full_. This
cuts down on the cleaning cycles and there is no waste of paper.
Hope this helps,
Cheers
P.S. I sent this post at the beginning of this or a very similar thread.
The same exact behavior is exhibited by both my 1400 and 1430.
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On 2/26/2013 5:47 AM, jcphoto52 wrote:
>
> Hi Mr.Roark
> As my first experience at refilling, I did exactly that on my 1430.
> The "yellow" cartridge showing a low level (flashing light on), I
> decided to top all the cartridges.
>
> After that, I've found that the printer was doing it's normal cycle,
> only to see another flashing light on another (or two) cartridges. I
> had to remove and replace these cartridges, let the printer do is
> priming cycle only to find another flashing cartridge. I did a
> round-robin of removing cartridges until everything went to normal.
> Since the priming cycle uses ink (I think) I can see that my "full
> cartridges" are already emptier.
>
> This is a costly experience! Maybe the "have a second set of
> cartridges ready" will cure this?
>
> I'm still printing...
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com>
> , Paul Roark wrote:
> >
> > I do top off 1400 (and 1100) auto-reset carts. I mostly ignore the ink
> > monitor readings. However, when one is very low that I know has not
> > recently been topped off, I take that as a time to check all. The chips
> > and ink levels do get out of sync. This is not an optimal solution, but
> > pulling the carts to check them when there is any suggestion that one is
> > low or I have a printing project I'm going to start seems to avoid
> running
> > out of ink at an inopportune moment.
> >
> > Paul
> > www.PaulRoark.com
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 6:57 AM, rfsteckmeyer wrote:
> >
> > > **
> > >
> > >
> > > I am running an Epson 1430 with new MIS cartridges, MIS ink
> configured as
> > > Eboni 4 + as per Paul Rorak. I am making progress but find cartridge
> > > maintenance cumbersome. I think I read recently that Paul tops off
> all of
> > > his cartridges once one is designated needing refilling. Am I
> imagining
> > > this? If not will the chips reset for the partially full
> cartridges if I
> > > just top them off? Will the ink levels work as if they were all
> new full
> > > cartridges. Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>
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William Harvey
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