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Thank you for your video. 12 years after, how do these cartidges stand the test of time ? Do they prove durable ? Do you still sell them ? Thank you and kind regards
Don't wait until you have trouble! It's something you should do at least every six months to stave off trouble with EPSON ink. And if you use DTF / DTG you should do it at the end of each week.
Greta Video - will give it a try - Is there any info on converting to a Pizography Printer ( Spelling ?) that she mentions at the end of the video - Thank you
The chips are not reset because of ink. The controller chip resets the OEM chip underneath it at regular intervals. You can not force it to reset. Check the instructions on the product page!
The Epson 3800 gives a ink cartridge error message - replace ink cartridge for the brand new full refillable cartridge placed in the printer for the first time.
@@DavidThiel-we1en I tried to look you up in our customer database by your name and can not find you - nor any customer by name of Thiel, so not certain if these are our carts... Please contact us at our technical support with your customer name or business name or a sales order and I will try and help you.
The 365nm UV strips available online (search for FSLSR-12V-2835X600UV) are as good as these (*ahem*) 'Verified UV' strips ... but at only about 25% of the price. They have the same LEDs, resistors, light output and the same LED density per meter, although the power consumption is a bit higher. Not sure how IJM can justify charging so much when the only difference is that their lights have 'Verified UV' stamped on them. More than a whiff of marketing BS I suspect.
Excellent video, thank you very much! I wanted to tell you about the problem I have: My Epson 9900 prints correctly all colors, except the black color that prints in a brown color. The Epson authorized service technician checked the printer through software and mechanically the printer; We changed all the black inks (matte black, Black, Ligh ligh black etc) that I always use original, but I still have the same problem. Could you please tell me what could be the cause and how I can solve it? Thank you very much
depends if this is just a sudden change in a printer that you have been printing with all along or you are trying to resurrect one that has been sitting a long time, or if you just changed black ink modes after a very long time of not using that black. What does your nozzle check look like? If it has a few missing nozzles you can probably recover. But if it has swaths of areas missing it is probably a fatal head delamination. If you had not changed black ink modes in a very long time then your black ink exchanger is probably plugged and needing replacement, but you may still be able to use the black ink mode you had been using. If just starting up a printer over a long time of rest you should flush it out and let the flush rest in it for a couple days before putting inks back.. It all depends!
I wouldn't know. I just got it used from someone. The photo black is completely out so I am waiting for the shipment. I am guessing I should try purging/cleaning powerful a couple of times and see if it makes a difference first. 2nd would be to take out the printhead and soak it with 70% alcohol. (Do you have instructions on printhead removal?) If that still does not work then I need a new printhead. What do you think? @@Inkjetmall
@@user-fl4oc8cr9w I would never use alcohol on a print head unless I wanted to rapidly dry it out. You need the absolute opposite. Even distilled water would be a more efficient and save solvent to use than alcohol. Alcohol and ammonium should not be used to clear print heads. They are more an effective solution to preserving a perfectly working print head by first flushing with a wetting agent and then finishing up to remove the wetting agent by a drying agent. If instead there is a clog only something with a sufficient wetting agent should be used. This is what PiezoFlush is about. You can find and purchase the field service manual for your printer model on the 2manuals website.
We've not heard of that before. Clean cycles are a function selected in the LCD panel on your printer or using the Epson printer utility software, but can not be changed by cleaning the printer manually. If your printer starts up normally - and you have the EPSON LCD panel and select it to perform a cleaning, usually only a full maintenance box will prevent that.
@@Inkjetmall I got a message telling me to change the maintenance box (it was almost full). I changed it and still get the same message after a few minutes of the printer trying to clean the print head.
@@bebechat14it is probably related. Perhaps turning on and off the printer will remedy. Otherwise it may require being reset and there is a tool out there for the 7900. An Epson Adjustment Utility available from 2manuals dot com. There may be a way to reset the printer if it can not figure out it has a new maintenance tank. But this is a little beyond our ability to trouble shoot what is exactly happening with your particular situation.
technically yes. We do not directly support that model because we have not found any refillable carts/chips that function correctly. So we can not support it with PiezoFlush internally to clear out the ink lines and ink exchange unit. But, doing this type of preventative maintenance every six months is a very good plan.
Helpful video, thanks. In my case (Pro 3880) the auto feed has become very unreliable. Can hardly reach it. I suppose that removing the cover would give me better access? I'm dreading the prospect of cover removal. Are cleaning sheets worth trying? And why doesn't Epson sell their cleaning sheets in USA?
I use a different model but this video was a lifesaver!! I have random blob of ink and 6:00 method really did the trick, easier than any other video out there. Thank you so much
I bought this printer ru-vid.comUgkxciSwynMJ7PnUvvx11rewiu-yFBkZTl53 to replace an aging HP printer. It is just used for casual home printing so I don't need anything more. Installation went easily though the HP Smart Printing doesn't work well with our laptops - having to select the actual device. Will have to see how the HP Instant Ink program works out. Plus haven't been able to set up printing from smartphone yet - either direct or WiFi
This is a really good printer ru-vid.comUgkxciSwynMJ7PnUvvx11rewiu-yFBkZTl53 . The reason I gave 4 stars for tech support (which I don't think this would classify as tech support) is because once you turn the printer on, it does require a little bit of start up time which may bother some who are in a hurry to quickly print something. To offset that though the printer prints very quickly. I would definitely purchase this printer again.
You can not flush one channel at a time using a utility. Flushing using the POWER CLEAN or the EPSON maintenance utility uses strong powerful suction to empty all ink lines. So this is what you should do if you are trying to clear a clog because printing out a single channel does not create any suction or strong forces. HOWEVER, if you wish to flush a single channel to remove the ink and replace with another you can do this with an independent ink channel printer driver like QuadTone RIP in its Calibration Mode if you alter it's inkseparation file to only include the color information for that channel you wish to change an ink out of. You will need read its documentation to understand how to do that, and the documentation is part of the downloads at QuadTone RIP. It is not intuitive.
sorry no we do not! Some have somehow found a way to replace them with very long needle nose pliers, others by some type of masking tape on a long stick, and others just bit the bullet and pull the ink bays...
You do not need to fill the entire cartridge, but you do need enough volume for the cartridge to operate well. We think about 70ml is minimum in allowing you to run at least two charges and not introduce any air into the printer. The chip of a 9900 cartridge is not actually connected to the ink volume. If reset it assumes the cartridge is full. So filling it less than full means you need keep track of the ink volume and not allow air into the printer.
Its probably more to do with all of the people who upgraded during covid to work from home and really not needing or wanting to upgrade due to the machine being perfectly adequate today and possibly because of the economy.
If the ink has seriously clogged the nozzles, when you slide the print head over the soaked tissue just leave it like that overnight. Then do it again next morning starting with a clean soaked tissue, and things should be a lot better.
It could be any number of things. If the cartridge is defective, if it is a 3rd party cartridge that is unprimed, if there is a pressurization issue with the cartridge, if the damper inside the ink selector unit has been plugged with pigment, if the ink being printed is from a very outdated cartridge, if pigment has settled into the area behind the print channel in between the print head and the ink selector unit, if there is a plug in the ink channel itself in the print head, if the channel is electrically dead...and possibly even other reasons...
When Epson 7800 220mm carts jumped from $80 to $135 I found your refillables. The chip resetter also works on the maintenance tanks, which have also nearly doubled to $50 each. You just have to figure out some absorbent material to refill them with. Transitioning is easy, and waiting until all are replaced before doing new profiles, although it seems you have some 'off the shelf' profiles. I've had the 7800 since their first release, seeing samples of their black and white prints, as good as my darkroom (which I sold, thankfully, before all that stuff became worthless).
Hi, your video is very useful and done very well, my problem with the 7900 when starting up is the same as what you show in your video, performing the same reset procedure but immediately after the same error occurs again, can you suggest me what I have to do? grazie
The process is for refillable cartridges. Putting a syringe into the ink port of the Original Cart will break an anti-refill mechanism and render it useless.
great but show how you take the cover off. I have. apriblem with my cap which has come off the side bit. does the black bit need to go under the white bit right side. I have issues with only 2 colours coming out on my sheet. please helpppp
Thank you, thank you, thank you! The deepest cleaning in service mode couldn't clear a bad magenta clog in my 9900. I found this video while looking for solutions, ordered the piezo flush, followed the instructions in this video, and the clog is now gone! I did have to run one regular cleaning after the piezo flush/paper towel/print head cleaning but now the nozzle check pattern is perfect and I'm currently printing up a bunch of photos for a show this weekend. Cheers!
Hello, I have this model of printer and since I bought it, its original inks were used up and I did not use it again. You want to put the continuous system on it and make it operational, what do you recommend I buy and do?, thanks
If you mean that this printer has been sitting for many years unused - then really you are at risk with the 3800 or 3880 because the ink selector unit tends to fail in the black channel as a result of prolonged sitting with pigment inks for years. The ink selector unit would need be replaced in that case. But if one of the black inks is still operational - then maybe possible to buy the entire flush kit for the 3800 (shop.inkjetmall.com/PiezoFlush-kit-for-Epson-Pro-3800.html) or the 3880 (shop.inkjetmall.com/PiezoFlush-kit-for-Epson-Pro-3880.html) and clear it out. If it will print perfectly pink nozzle checks at that point - then you invest in inks.
