You can take the cartridges out prematurely, but you generally want to
avoid doing that. Epson uses the electromechanical approach to
squeezing the ink out. So each time the cartridges are replaced the new
ones have to be electrostatic-ally charged. This wastes ink. In
addition, with the old versions of OS-X, printer communications were,
shall we say a bit tenuous, so sometimes the printer would not report
remaining ink levels correctly (this tended to be true with most
ink-jet printers), which sometimes would make an old, used cartridge
look full when it was on its last legs.
Jerry
p.s. If you were using this for photos, check into the 2200. It is
really good.
On Saturday, December 28, 2002, at 09:44 PM, Tony LaFemina wrote:
> Bill Rising wrote:
>
>> On 12/28/2002 1:09, Tony LaFemina wrote
>>
>> [snip...]
>>
>>> Have you tried replacing the cartridges?
>>>
>>
>> I've wanted to avoid that, because epson makes all sorts of dire
>> warnings stating that taking a cartridge out makes it unusable
>> forever (even if it is still pretty full, as the ones in my printer
>> are). So... this'll be the very last step, after I've tried
>> everything else.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
> Thanks for that bit of information Bill. I've only had 2 H-P printers,
> and am not used to that kind of stupidity. Are you allowed to at least
> wiggle them to maybe try to reseat them? I'm not familiar with Epson's
> setup, but couldn't there be a condition where the cartridges aren't
> seated properly? It sounds like these guys went out of their way to
> come up with that one.
>
> I wish you the best.
>
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> Tony LaFemina
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