Marta; There is still ink, and the Epson printer that I own (Stylus Photo 890) will print for quite awhile with low cartridges. I take the flash warning to mean that I should have a new cartridge ready when it begins to flash red. However, if I go to Printer Center, then to Configure, then to Epson Status Monitor, it will usually tell me that I can print 77/100/ or whatever number of copies similar to the last one printed. So I continue to use the low cartridge until it is truly too low to print any more pages. I don't want to waste all that still-usable ink! The red light often continues to flash for quite some time before it actually quits.
Hope this will save you some $$... ink's not cheap. Mike On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 10:07 AM, Marta Edie wrote: > Hi, group, just a quick question: When in an Epson printer it signals > by the red flashing light that you are low on either black or colored > cartridge, do you have to replace the ones in question instantly or is > there a grace period to give you time to print a few more pages? I > have always changed the cartridges when it said "low". Do they ever > say :"empty"? In the printer utility window it always still shows > quite a bit of ink left. > Marta > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
