2015-04-20 by jeff.grant@...
My Australian 1430 K6 experiment is at an end. So far, I have been through 4 sets of carts. Two have been from Inkbank in Canberra, one came from HK as recommended by Michael Venz, and the other was a rechipped set of IJM 2880 carts. Each set had at least one cart that leaked, and I could not get a consistent nozzle check even using Piezoflush. I gave up this morning after running a nozzle check and finding LC bad. I then did a purge pattern which left LC bad still so took the carts out to see if they were leaking. LC had leaked, and the flush ran out of the LM cart as I lifted it out.
Of course, it works perfectly when I put the Epson carts back in. I don't know whether I have just got a bad printer or whether Epson have changed something but I've had enough.
I really wanted a K6 printer that I could easily and cheaply hibernate but that does't seem possible.