Digital BW, The Print

To All:

I'm installing a CFS from MIS on my Epson 1280 but am having a problem.

Everything is set up and ready to go; but, when the power is turned on the initialization process shows a red light. This apparently means a chip problem or a chip misread or an out of alignment of the chip.

I've reseated the large cartridge, which I assume is the problem, several times to no avail.  I figured this was the problem because it sits up about an 1/8" above the black cartridge.

Any solutions...I'd appreciate anyone's help on this to get going tonight.  Much to do after the install to get it configured and calibrated with the QTR RIP.

Thanks, Mike

Answering my own post:

After reading through the posting on the inksupply.com web site I reseated both cartridges real solidly but not after preloading the ink into the cartridges.  This was the problem: air.  The carts won't suck up ink if there's air or bubbles in them.  So, using the syringe I had I drew in 10 loads of ink, one at a time and squiring the ink back into the bottle.  I reseated the carts real solidly and ran a purge6 test but only black came out.  Then I tried a standard Epson clean/print cycle and 4 of the 6 at least printed something.  After four clean/print cycles the test were within one segment each.  A rerun of the purge6.tif print looked great except for some banding in the Lc cart used for light gray.

For now I can deal with the banding which should work itself out while I do the QTR calibrate procedure for the Red River Greenpix paper.

Any other ideas please feel free to send them along...Mike


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "mbrouphy" <mbrouphy@...> wrote:

>
> To All:
> 
> I'm installing a CFS from MIS on my Epson 1280 but am having a problem.
> 
> Everything is set up and ready to go; but, when the power is turned on the initialization process shows a red light. This apparently means a chip problem or a chip misread or an out of alignment of the chip.
> 
> I've reseated the large cartridge, which I assume is the problem, several times to no avail.  I figured this was the problem because it sits up about an 1/8" above the black cartridge.
> 
> Any solutions...I'd appreciate anyone's help on this to get going tonight.  Much to do after the install to get it configured and calibrated with the QTR RIP.
> 
> Thanks, Mike
>