Digital BW, The Print

Hi to all,

Could it be my imagination that, when I check ink levels using 
the Epson utility for my 1280, the ink levels appear to get lower? 
That sort of thing is not supposed to happen with a CFS/CIS.

Any comments, or do I need a little rest?

Many TIA, Jeffrey

Jeffrey:

You probably are not halucinating from lack of sleep.  With the 
original CIS from NoMoreCarts (Niagra), you have to turn the printer 
off and back on to reset the chip.  With the MIS CFS, you need to 
manually reset the chip.

Jeff Randall

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "thronxx" 
<happy.eyeball@v...> wrote:

> Hi to all,
> 
> Could it be my imagination that, when I check ink levels using 
> the Epson utility for my 1280, the ink levels appear to get lower? 
> That sort of thing is not supposed to happen with a CFS/CIS.
> 
> Any comments, or do I need a little rest?
> 
> Many TIA, Jeffrey

The CIS uses read only chips that always read full, with a little 
printer of/on tweaking. The CFS requires the f-16 chip resetter from 
MIS. Or you could use an old Russian buggy DOS app that works in Win98 
with a parralell port ONLY that is cheaper, both available from MIS.
Jim H.



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Jeff Randall" 
<jrandall@c...> wrote:

> Jeffrey:
> 
> You probably are not halucinating from lack of sleep.  With the 
> original CIS from NoMoreCarts (Niagra), you have to turn the printer 
> off and back on to reset the chip.  With the MIS CFS, you need to 
> manually reset the chip.
> 
> Jeff Randall
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "thronxx" 
> <happy.eyeball@v...> wrote:
> > Hi to all,
> > 
> > Could it be my imagination that, when I check ink levels using 
> > the Epson utility for my 1280, the ink levels appear to get lower? 
> > That sort of thing is not supposed to happen with a CFS/CIS.
> > 
> > Any comments, or do I need a little rest?
> > 
> > Many TIA, Jeffrey

Oops,

That's what happens when you selectively read instructions.

Got it. Chip resetter. Works fine.

My assumption was that levels always read full. I guess the purpose 
of the chip is to indicate a new/full cart, not to indicate levels. 
The printer does that.

Many thanks, Jeffrey

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "thronxx" 
<happy.eyeball@v...> wrote:

> Hi to all,
> 
> Could it be my imagination that, when I check ink levels using 
> the Epson utility for my 1280, the ink levels appear to get lower? 
> That sort of thing is not supposed to happen with a CFS/CIS.
> 
> Any comments, or do I need a little rest?
> 
> Many TIA, Jeffrey