Michael Hartley Loc: Deer Capital of Georgia

Some are surprised, some not. I've weighed some cartridges, I'm not surprised, at all.
http://youtu.be/M84u_8hAFzU

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That was an interesting article, but in my opinion, misleading. In the Pro series Epson printers, if you can get a complete copy of the repair manual, you will find the the printers estimate how much ink is used per sheet on an "average". This way they can keep you from using all the ink in a cart and running the line dry. Running the line dry will require a power clean or system ink start up which requires massive amounts of inks. My 9600 will use up almost all the 360ml cartridges just to fill the system and purge any air in the system. So, if one cart goes dry, and air is in the lines, be ready to use 360ml of each ink to purge the system and be up and running. That is unless you are willing to start taking things apart and replenish the line that is empty. Also, you take a chance of ruining the print head with an empty line.

My 9000's and 9600 will allow me to reset the ink levels in the maintenance menus "if" I know that the warning is incorrect, if for instance I start printing 44" sheets at 1440 or higher dpi instead of the normal 300 dpi I use for CAD, and then go back to CAD. It calculate the remaining CAD at the highest dpi. so it assumes you are using more ink. It is a safety feature by Epson or Seiko, to keep you from having to have an expensive service call.

But, if folks would take the time to read the service manual for their printer, and learn about it, a lot of this misleading stuff wouldn't make it to YouTube, and you would know how to use the ink in the cart to it's safe level.

Mercer Loc: Houston, TX, USA

Goodbye Epson. Just another good reason to leave this company and others of a similar ilk.
Hello, reliable commercial printing firms. How about a list of good firms, and comments, experiences, opinions, etc., from some Hoggers?
Thanks for a much-needed and very good topic.