Digital BW, The Print

I have an Epson R280.  I purchased an Eboni cartridge to replace the 
Epson black cartridge.  I have followed the procedure in the Epson 
manual for replacing cartridges and with the Eboni cartridge installed
and now both the green power light and and red ink light are lit 
indicating expended/uninstalled/incompatible cartridges.  The Epson 
status utility shows the black cartridge as expended and all other 
cartridges as uninstalled.

Have I missed a step somewhere?  The exact cartridge I purchased was:

RCN-T0771-K  	B&W Ultratone UT-RCN Matte Black Eboni CARTRIDGE for EPSON 
STYLUS PHOTO R260/R380/RX580 - BLACK Position w/Auto Reset Chip

Thanks

On my 260 I found I could not mix MIS and Epson OEM carts/chips.  That 
is, all of one or the other had to be in the machine for it to work.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, David Murphy 
<dm1000@...> wrote:
>
> I have an Epson R280.  I purchased an Eboni cartridge to replace the 
> Epson black cartridge.  I have followed the procedure in the Epson 
> manual for replacing cartridges and with the Eboni cartridge installed
> and now both the green power light and and red ink light are lit 
> indicating expended/uninstalled/incompatible cartridges.  The Epson 
> status utility shows the black cartridge as expended and all other 
> cartridges as uninstalled.
> 
> Have I missed a step somewhere?  The exact cartridge I purchased was:
> 
> RCN-T0771-K  	B&W Ultratone UT-RCN Matte Black Eboni CARTRIDGE for 
EPSON 

> STYLUS PHOTO R260/R380/RX580 - BLACK Position w/Auto Reset Chip
> 
> Thanks
>

pr_roark wrote:
> 
> 
> On my 260 I found I could not mix MIS and Epson OEM carts/chips. That
> is, all of one or the other had to be in the machine for it to work.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com

Just to confirm, I need to purchase an additional 5 Eboni cartridges to 
get the r280 to do black only?  I'd like to avoid that investment, at 
least initially, until I see what results I can get from just a single 
cartridge.

Is it possible to swap the chips from the epson cartridge to the MIS 
cartridge?  They look similar but not identical. f

Thanks

> 
> Just to confirm, I need to purchase an additional 5 Eboni 
> cartridges to get the r280 to do black only?  

I recently did some Claria black only profiles for someone teaching a 
workshop, and we found he had to send me a full set of Claria inks 
(used) before I could get my 260 to work.  It did not look like the OEM 
and MIS chips would interchange.

As an aside, the Claria BO had what I'd call an ugly greenish tint.  So 
I also made this person some simple neutralized profiles that threw in 
a little LM just so he'd know what neutral looked like.


Paul
www.PaulRoark.com