RE: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) - resetting the chips
Hi Pentax Users I went to lurk mode but still try to read all ouf the messages and have a look ath the photos... I received a used Epson 2100 including some fresh inks for free and wonder: What's the best storage place for the ink, normal room temperature oder the fridge or else? thanks Markus Anyone tried this? A friend of mine uses one with his Epson 2100. I don't remember how much extra printing he gets from it, but it was quite a lot. However I have heard rumours that running the ink out on a regular basis could damage the print head. This rumour may have been planted
Re: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) - resetting the chips
Room temp has worked for me the last 7 years. Of course this is Michigan, YMMV! I always run my printers out of ink. No problems. Kenneth Waller - Original Message - From: Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 12:20 PM Subject: RE: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) - resetting the chips Hi Pentax Users I went to lurk mode but still try to read all ouf the messages and have a look ath the photos... I received a used Epson 2100 including some fresh inks for free and wonder: What's the best storage place for the ink, normal room temperature oder the fridge or else? thanks Markus Anyone tried this? A friend of mine uses one with his Epson 2100. I don't remember how much extra printing he gets from it, but it was quite a lot. However I have heard rumours that running the ink out on a regular basis could damage the print head. This rumour may have been planted
RE: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo)
Eureka! The little software application I got from a Danish guy on www.fotokritik.dk really works! I have managed to reset my counters using this software. My old, but rarely used Epson (1997) is now printing again!! (My printer have rested since I lived in Ireland in 2001). It's not printing very pretty (banding in the black sections), but i guess after having run a lot of cleaning fluid through the nozzles, it may get better still. The SSC Service Utility can be found at: http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml/epsons.shtml All the best Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 4. december 2004 02:46 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Fw: Epson Printer (Sylus Photo) i wore out my 1270. carriage rail started rubbing and eventually seized after 3 years. i have a 1280 now and am holding off for a 4000 so that i can do true 16x20 prints. the high end Epsons are very reliable for ink handling. Herb - Original Message - From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 8:21 AM Subject: Re: Fw: Epson Printer (Sylus Photo) I started out with an Epson 1270 that gave me years of service without so much as a hiccup, even when left for extended periods without use. No clogs or any other glitches. Sold *lots* of prints from it and won some awards for some of them. It's now in the hands of Stan Halpin and I'm the happy owner of an Epson 2200. :)
RE: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo)
Sounds like the printer for me! By the way - i just discovered that mine Stylus Photo is 7 years old, but rarely used. Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 4. december 2004 02:58 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) this is opposite to my manuals for the 1270 and 1280 printers. the chips specifically allow you to take out a cartridge before it is empty, put another one in, and then swap back later. i don't know if i really believe them as i haven't done it, but it says so in both manuals. Herb - Original Message - From: Jens Bladt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 10:42 AM Subject: RE: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) I still think the chips in the ink cartidges suck! If I accidently lift the lid to one of the cartridges, the ink is no more useable. A normal repair will cost 100 USD including part up to a value of 16 USD. A repair that includes a new head (worth 170 USD) will cost 275 USD.
RE: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) - resetting the chips
One of the reasons, I believe, it's normally impossible to take out a cartridge and reinstall it, is supposed to be to avoid emptying it completely. If you do, the ink may dry and damage the pipe, transporting ink to the nozzle and thje nozzle itself. Annother reason is, that the chip that controles this mechanism prevents refilling the the catridges, which would mean less money to EPSON. I want to reset the chip - not to refill it - but to simply reinstall whenever I have taken it out - to clean the printer using a cleaning cartridge. I don't want to damage the printer. I just don't want to throw away a lot of perfectly good ink. I talked to an ink company yesterday. The guy said there are no chips in cartrides made for my printer, Very odd. So why can't I reinstall a half used cartridge. Hoe does the printer know that it has been out? Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: David Mann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 4. december 2004 05:41 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) - resetting the chips On Dec 4, 2004, at 4:58 AM, Jens Bladt wrote: I think I found the keyword my self: Chipsresetter! For app. 20 USD I can buy a chipsrestter, which will reset my ink cartridge so the printer believes it is full, not empty. Annother tool is buying/changing the cartridge chip. This is even cheaper. Anyone tried this? A friend of mine uses one with his Epson 2100. I don't remember how much extra printing he gets from it, but it was quite a lot. However I have heard rumours that running the ink out on a regular basis could damage the print head. This rumour may have been planted by Epson, but it's enough to scare me away from doing it myself. I might sell him my used cartridges cheaply... Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
RE: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) - resetting the chips
Recently I found out that some pirate software can clean the printer/printhead, reset counters etc. I haven't really tried it yet since mu printer don't work. But here's the link in case you are interested: http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml/epsons.shtml Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Jens Bladt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 4. december 2004 11:08 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: RE: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) - resetting the chips One of the reasons, I believe, it's normally impossible to take out a cartridge and reinstall it, is supposed to be to avoid emptying it completely. If you do, the ink may dry and damage the pipe, transporting ink to the nozzle and thje nozzle itself. Annother reason is, that the chip that controles this mechanism prevents refilling the the catridges, which would mean less money to EPSON. I want to reset the chip - not to refill it - but to simply reinstall whenever I have taken it out - to clean the printer using a cleaning cartridge. I don't want to damage the printer. I just don't want to throw away a lot of perfectly good ink. I talked to an ink company yesterday. The guy said there are no chips in cartrides made for my printer, Very odd. So why can't I reinstall a half used cartridge. Hoe does the printer know that it has been out? Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: David Mann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 4. december 2004 05:41 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) - resetting the chips On Dec 4, 2004, at 4:58 AM, Jens Bladt wrote: I think I found the keyword my self: Chipsresetter! For app. 20 USD I can buy a chipsrestter, which will reset my ink cartridge so the printer believes it is full, not empty. Annother tool is buying/changing the cartridge chip. This is even cheaper. Anyone tried this? A friend of mine uses one with his Epson 2100. I don't remember how much extra printing he gets from it, but it was quite a lot. However I have heard rumours that running the ink out on a regular basis could damage the print head. This rumour may have been planted by Epson, but it's enough to scare me away from doing it myself. I might sell him my used cartridges cheaply... Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
RE: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo)
I still think the chips in the ink cartidges suck! If I accidently lift the lid to one of the cartridges, the ink is no more useable. A normal repair will cost 100 USD including part up to a value of 16 USD. A repair that includes a new head (worth 170 USD) will cost 275 USD. A new printer would be cheaper, I guess. I still regard buying an EPSON printer was i mistake and a very bad investment, which I won't repeat. So, is there a trick to make the printer ( perhaps the cartrigde chip) forget, that I may have opened the blue lid?? Then I could at least use it for BW text sheets. Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Keith Whaley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 2. december 2004 13:48 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) Sure. In an Epson (as opposed to the Hewlett-Packard style wherein the ink jets are contained in the ink cartridge itself) they are in the cartridge's carrier/print head. No practical way to remove and clean, so the machine has a cleaning cycle built into it's software. To elaborate, at the end of every session, one should shut down the printer, whereupon the printer parks it's print head on a sponge material, which is meant to seal the jet orifices from ink evaporation. Ink evaporation causes the ink to eventually get more and more concentrated, and finally solidify and plug up one or more of the many orifices. When that happens, eventually you'll observe blank horizontal lines in anything you print. Then you have to run a cleaning cycle until it comes out clear (clean) and prints well. It may well be true that one cannot use an Epson ink jet printer sporadically, but must use it regularly to keep the ink jets from plugging up. My observations support that contention... keith whaley == uses a cheap Stylus Photo 820. Jens Bladt wrote: Can anyone please explain what clogging means? Thanks Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 2. december 2004 00:42 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) My Epson 2200 is an absolute joy. It uses seven inks, five colors plus black and light black. The cartridges can be replaced individually. And, as with the Canon, I can pop a cartridge out and reinsert it to try for another print. It's so quiet, I sometimes have to walk right up to it to make sure it's printing. Prior to this printer I had an Epson 1200 Stylus Photo. Never had a problem with that printer either, although the 2200 is definitely superior in terms of the way it renders shadows and gradations of color. My next printer will be the Epson that replaces the 2200. Paul
RE: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) - resetting the chips
I think I found the keyword my self: Chipsresetter! For app. 20 USD I can buy a chipsrestter, which will reset my ink cartridge so the printer believes it is full, not empty. Annother tool is buying/changing the cartridge chip. This is even cheaper. Anyone tried this? Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Jens Bladt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 3. december 2004 16:43 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: RE: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) I still think the chips in the ink cartidges suck! If I accidently lift the lid to one of the cartridges, the ink is no more useable. A normal repair will cost 100 USD including part up to a value of 16 USD. A repair that includes a new head (worth 170 USD) will cost 275 USD. A new printer would be cheaper, I guess. I still regard buying an EPSON printer was i mistake and a very bad investment, which I won't repeat. So, is there a trick to make the printer ( perhaps the cartrigde chip) forget, that I may have opened the blue lid?? Then I could at least use it for BW text sheets. Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Keith Whaley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 2. december 2004 13:48 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) Sure. In an Epson (as opposed to the Hewlett-Packard style wherein the ink jets are contained in the ink cartridge itself) they are in the cartridge's carrier/print head. No practical way to remove and clean, so the machine has a cleaning cycle built into it's software. To elaborate, at the end of every session, one should shut down the printer, whereupon the printer parks it's print head on a sponge material, which is meant to seal the jet orifices from ink evaporation. Ink evaporation causes the ink to eventually get more and more concentrated, and finally solidify and plug up one or more of the many orifices. When that happens, eventually you'll observe blank horizontal lines in anything you print. Then you have to run a cleaning cycle until it comes out clear (clean) and prints well. It may well be true that one cannot use an Epson ink jet printer sporadically, but must use it regularly to keep the ink jets from plugging up. My observations support that contention... keith whaley == uses a cheap Stylus Photo 820. Jens Bladt wrote: Can anyone please explain what clogging means? Thanks Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 2. december 2004 00:42 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) My Epson 2200 is an absolute joy. It uses seven inks, five colors plus black and light black. The cartridges can be replaced individually. And, as with the Canon, I can pop a cartridge out and reinsert it to try for another print. It's so quiet, I sometimes have to walk right up to it to make sure it's printing. Prior to this printer I had an Epson 1200 Stylus Photo. Never had a problem with that printer either, although the 2200 is definitely superior in terms of the way it renders shadows and gradations of color. My next printer will be the Epson that replaces the 2200. Paul
Re: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo)
this is opposite to my manuals for the 1270 and 1280 printers. the chips specifically allow you to take out a cartridge before it is empty, put another one in, and then swap back later. i don't know if i really believe them as i haven't done it, but it says so in both manuals. Herb - Original Message - From: Jens Bladt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 10:42 AM Subject: RE: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) I still think the chips in the ink cartidges suck! If I accidently lift the lid to one of the cartridges, the ink is no more useable. A normal repair will cost 100 USD including part up to a value of 16 USD. A repair that includes a new head (worth 170 USD) will cost 275 USD.
Re: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) - resetting the chips
On Dec 4, 2004, at 4:58 AM, Jens Bladt wrote: I think I found the keyword my self: Chipsresetter! For app. 20 USD I can buy a chipsrestter, which will reset my ink cartridge so the printer believes it is full, not empty. Annother tool is buying/changing the cartridge chip. This is even cheaper. Anyone tried this? A friend of mine uses one with his Epson 2100. I don't remember how much extra printing he gets from it, but it was quite a lot. However I have heard rumours that running the ink out on a regular basis could damage the print head. This rumour may have been planted by Epson, but it's enough to scare me away from doing it myself. I might sell him my used cartridges cheaply... Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
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Can anyone please explain what clogging means? Thanks Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 2. december 2004 00:42 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) My Epson 2200 is an absolute joy. It uses seven inks, five colors plus black and light black. The cartridges can be replaced individually. And, as with the Canon, I can pop a cartridge out and reinsert it to try for another print. It's so quiet, I sometimes have to walk right up to it to make sure it's printing. Prior to this printer I had an Epson 1200 Stylus Photo. Never had a problem with that printer either, although the 2200 is definitely superior in terms of the way it renders shadows and gradations of color. My next printer will be the Epson that replaces the 2200. Paul On Dec 1, 2004, at 6:31 PM, Cotty wrote: On 1/12/04, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed: I guess you'll just have to give in, and support Canon in their drive to take over the entire photography universe. It helps that they are giving people what they want. I have a Canon S9000. It takes 6 individual ink tanks (black plus five colours), and if the low ink warning appears, I open the lid, the head slides out, I retrieve the specified tank, and if I think it could still do a couple of prints yet, I slot it back in and carry on. I bought it used and at three years old the head was clogging a bit, so I bought a brand new head for about 50 GBP (just under 100 USD) and popped it into the head assembly - very quick and my printer has a new leas of life. It is very fast, very quiet and the results continually amaze me. I had a Stylus Photo EX before the S9000, and the Epson was noisy and slow, and the head clogged continually if inactive for more than a week at a time. I would not consider another Epson at this time. HTH Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
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Sure. In an Epson (as opposed to the Hewlett-Packard style wherein the ink jets are contained in the ink cartridge itself) they are in the cartridge's carrier/print head. No practical way to remove and clean, so the machine has a cleaning cycle built into it's software. To elaborate, at the end of every session, one should shut down the printer, whereupon the printer parks it's print head on a sponge material, which is meant to seal the jet orifices from ink evaporation. Ink evaporation causes the ink to eventually get more and more concentrated, and finally solidify and plug up one or more of the many orifices. When that happens, eventually you'll observe blank horizontal lines in anything you print. Then you have to run a cleaning cycle until it comes out clear (clean) and prints well. It may well be true that one cannot use an Epson ink jet printer sporadically, but must use it regularly to keep the ink jets from plugging up. My observations support that contention... keith whaley == uses a cheap Stylus Photo 820. Jens Bladt wrote: Can anyone please explain what clogging means? Thanks Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 2. december 2004 00:42 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) My Epson 2200 is an absolute joy. It uses seven inks, five colors plus black and light black. The cartridges can be replaced individually. And, as with the Canon, I can pop a cartridge out and reinsert it to try for another print. It's so quiet, I sometimes have to walk right up to it to make sure it's printing. Prior to this printer I had an Epson 1200 Stylus Photo. Never had a problem with that printer either, although the 2200 is definitely superior in terms of the way it renders shadows and gradations of color. My next printer will be the Epson that replaces the 2200. Paul
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Thanks for the link. I do believe I won't get much wiser, I'm afraid. What I was looking for, was a way to trick the d machine to act as if the almost full ink cartridge was a new one. I guess the official EPSON web site won't give me this I think all the automatics of this printer system sucks! Not to mention the user guide: The subjecs concerning replacing ink cartridges and cleaning the printer head are described in 4 different chapters! Very clever! I have re-inserted the used black ink, which to my surprise, worked! However, since the prints were still banded, I tried to re-install the cleaning cartridge. Unfortunatly unsuccessfully! The red light for empty cartridge is now on. And of cource nothing works. I can't clean the head and it's no use to put in new ink as long as the head is not clean. That's like the old song about the hole in the bucket! This is how EPSON tricks me to buy a lot of ink, that will never reach a sheet of paper. I guess I'll leave the cleaning fluid/cartridge in the machine over night (recommended by the cleaning cartridge manufacturer). Tomorrow I'll put in a fresh black ink cartridge. If the prints are still bad, I'll simply ditch the whole thing. It cost me something like 700 USD four years ago. Today (after app. 100 prints) it's probably worhless. A new printer will cost me less than giving this one a repair. I still think it is very annoying that EPSON, not me, decides when to add cleaning fluid or when to replace an ink cartridges. I won't buy an Epson printer again! Big mistake! I have spent more money on replacing full or half full cartridges than on useable prints! I guess I'll just go back to having the lab do my prints. It's much cheaper and less annoying. Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Paul Sorenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 1. december 2004 21:23 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Epson Printer (Sylus Photo) I suppose I *should* include the link g http://tinyurl.com/6xoz6 - Original Message - From: Paul Sorenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 2:17 PM Subject: Re: Epson Printer (Sylus Photo) Perhaps what you are suggesting is to swftly slipping in the new cartridge when ever the print head is out for a walk ? No - there are three buttons on the printer, one for power, one to manually load or eject paper and one that you use to replace an empty ink cartridge when one of the low ink lights above it is flashing (Epson calls it the cleaning button. To replace a cartridge when you do not have a low ink light flashing, you move the print head to the cartridge replacement position by pressing and holding the load/eject button for about 3 seconds. Here is a link to the US version of Epson's web site for support on the Stylus Photo. Near the bottom under Documents and Manuals, is a link to download the manual for this printer in .pdf. Chapter 5, page 5-7 describes what you want to do under Replacing an Outdated Ink Cartridge: HTH -P - Original Message - From: Jens Bladt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:29 PM Subject: RE: Epson Printer (Sylus Photo) Thanks, Paul. Isn't what you are describing the normal procedure for changing cartridges? I guess my printer works a little different - it has very strange procedures for all manual operations. Perhaps what you are suggesting is to swftly slipping in the new cartridge when ever the print head is out for a walk ? Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Paul Sorenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 1. december 2004 17:21 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Epson Printer (Sylus Photo) Jens - Don't know if this will work on your model, but this procedure will work on the Stylus 880. Press the load/eject button for about 3 seconds until the print head starts moving to the left and the power light begins flashing. Do whatever changes you want to make with the ink cartridges Press the load/eject again until the print head begins to move back to the right. The power light will begin flashing again and the printer will go through the ink charging process. When it's done, your set to go. -P - Original Message - From: Jens Bladt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 10:00 AM Subject: RE: Epson Printer (Sylus Photo) ...It's Epson Stylus Photo - the exact and full name. It was one of the firts photo realistic printers on the market. It's probably 4-5 years old, but have printet less than 100 A4 pages through this time years. Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt
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Jens Bladt mused: I won't buy an Epson printer again! Big mistake! Well, you could always buy a Lexmark. They've put circuitry in their ink cartridges to stop you using third-party supplies. And when somebody reverse-engineered this protection scheme Lexmark sued them (using overly-broad provisions in the DMCPA). Or, if you don't like that either, you could always try HP. Their latest models apparently refuse to print if the ink cartridge is too old, even if it's still completely full. I guess you'll just have to give in, and support Canon in their drive to take over the entire photography universe.
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On 1/12/04, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed: I guess you'll just have to give in, and support Canon in their drive to take over the entire photography universe. It helps that they are giving people what they want. I have a Canon S9000. It takes 6 individual ink tanks (black plus five colours), and if the low ink warning appears, I open the lid, the head slides out, I retrieve the specified tank, and if I think it could still do a couple of prints yet, I slot it back in and carry on. I bought it used and at three years old the head was clogging a bit, so I bought a brand new head for about 50 GBP (just under 100 USD) and popped it into the head assembly - very quick and my printer has a new leas of life. It is very fast, very quiet and the results continually amaze me. I had a Stylus Photo EX before the S9000, and the Epson was noisy and slow, and the head clogged continually if inactive for more than a week at a time. I would not consider another Epson at this time. HTH Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
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My Epson 2200 is an absolute joy. It uses seven inks, five colors plus black and light black. The cartridges can be replaced individually. And, as with the Canon, I can pop a cartridge out and reinsert it to try for another print. It's so quiet, I sometimes have to walk right up to it to make sure it's printing. Prior to this printer I had an Epson 1200 Stylus Photo. Never had a problem with that printer either, although the 2200 is definitely superior in terms of the way it renders shadows and gradations of color. My next printer will be the Epson that replaces the 2200. Paul On Dec 1, 2004, at 6:31 PM, Cotty wrote: On 1/12/04, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed: I guess you'll just have to give in, and support Canon in their drive to take over the entire photography universe. It helps that they are giving people what they want. I have a Canon S9000. It takes 6 individual ink tanks (black plus five colours), and if the low ink warning appears, I open the lid, the head slides out, I retrieve the specified tank, and if I think it could still do a couple of prints yet, I slot it back in and carry on. I bought it used and at three years old the head was clogging a bit, so I bought a brand new head for about 50 GBP (just under 100 USD) and popped it into the head assembly - very quick and my printer has a new leas of life. It is very fast, very quiet and the results continually amaze me. I had a Stylus Photo EX before the S9000, and the Epson was noisy and slow, and the head clogged continually if inactive for more than a week at a time. I would not consider another Epson at this time. HTH Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
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- Original Message - From: Jens Bladt Subject: RE: Epson Printer (Stylus Photo) I guess I'll leave the cleaning fluid/cartridge in the machine over night (recommended by the cleaning cartridge manufacturer). Tomorrow I'll put in a fresh black ink cartridge. If the prints are still bad, I'll simply ditch the whole thing. It cost me something like 700 USD four years ago. Today (after app. 100 prints) it's probably worhless. A new printer will cost me less than giving this one a repair. I still think it is very annoying that EPSON, not me, decides when to add cleaning fluid or when to replace an ink cartridges. I won't buy an Epson printer again! Big mistake! I have spent more money on replacing full or half full cartridges than on useable prints! I guess I'll just go back to having the lab do my prints. It's much cheaper and less annoying. If you have used an Epson printer for 25 prints a year, you have under utilized the unit to the point of destroying it. The inks do dry out over time, that can't be helped. Epson makes a fine printer, but they are a production machine, they must be used. William Robb
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Quoting Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My Epson 2200 is an absolute joy. Prior to this printer I had an Epson 1200 Stylus Photo. Never had a problem with that printer either My next printer will be the Epson that replaces the 2200. HA! so I'm not the only one. We've mostly used Epsons in our family. Only one person so far has had to switch to something else. And that was because she had moved, lock stock my old Stylus Photo, to Jamaica where apparently the only service OR inks available are for HP. So she switched to HP. Other than that, printers get handed down from one family member to another when new models are purchased, but rarely actually retired from service. I notice, like everything else, mileage seems to vary. ERNR
