- Epson R200 says out of ink, but I'm not!
- Posted by Calab on April 21st, 2008
I have an Epson R200 inkjet printer with a continuous ink system. I
also have an external waste tank. It's been working well for months.
Today I decided to do some "preventative" maintenance. I pull the ink
cartridges out of the printer and injected a bit of cleaning fluid into
each line. I also swabbed out the various sponges inside the printer.
I've reinstalled the cartridges but now the printer is indicating that
all six cartridges are empty. I've tried removing and reinstalling them
with no luck.
Is there a way to tell if the printer is complaining about bad contact
with the cartridges or if it really thinks it's out of ink?
Is there any way to reset the ink counters in the printer?
Should I just keep trying to reinstall the cartridges until I have good
contact?
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- Posted by DanG on April 21st, 2008
"Calab" <myspam@csd.ca> wrote in message
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This would depend on the particular tanks that are in use, so consult the
maker of the CIS system. Many of them use tanks that auto-re-set at 3%. The
printer writes the status to the tank chips, and reads it back from there,
so it's the tanks chips that need to be addressed.
- Posted by Calab on April 21st, 2008
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And, as usual, as soon as you ask the question, the answer bites you in
the backside!
I removed and reinstalled the cartridges one more time and all is
working normally now!
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- Posted by Jan Alter on April 22nd, 2008
"Calab" <myspam@csd.ca> wrote in message
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connecting to the chip are sometimes very iffy, and I've repeatedly gone
through this dance with our C84's and C88's at school to eventually make a
solid contact when replacing a cartridge. Glad you got it going again. I've
also read that the electronics can be problematic to installing ARCs (auto
rest chips) in that they need to be installed as a set.
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- Posted by measekite on April 22nd, 2008
Calab wrote:
of ink.
- Posted by Rob. on April 22nd, 2008
Calab wrote:
Note that the problem solved.
http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml
you also may need this at some stage to reset the counters - if you
haven't already.
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