Good video on the initial checkout of the Epson stylus color 3000 printer model P891A that's made in japan it's heavily yellowed which is pretty common
I have yet to try to find new ink for it, I was told the most difficult part is going to be unclogging the tubes that run from the cartridge to the print head.
Really cool to see videos of older printers! By the way, I just have a request...would it be possible to demonstrate the product working with no additional background noise, so it can fully be heard? I understand it may not be practical, so no worries if not, because I still very much enjoy this content.
Thank You for the video. I own one, and it's a fantastic printer. Mine too doesn't get used since some time, but last year I bought a 1999 cartdrige ( big as a VHS cassette ) and the ink inside was perfectly usable....I worked without problems ! The printer is A2 format capable, continuous banner, parchment paper roll ( great for those D&D maps ! ) and many other things. Back in the days ( circa 1992 ) in Italy it had a price tag of a small car. I had a shop, and used it to make window banners.... It works on serial, parallel or SCSI interface. Funny, in a few years Younger people don't even recognize a parallel cable.... :) You can use an adapter, Works perfectly under win10. Anyway, if You find a used one for a couple hundred bucks buy it. This is as big as You can go short of a plotter, accepts all kind of media, and a cartdrige lasts for a lifetime. Search the internet, and You can find Ink, drivers etc
I ended up holding on to this thing, I have no conceivable use for it right now but you never know. There are already people who don't know what a parallel cable is!
Hi, would you mind letting me know which USB-parallel adapter you use please? I have one of these printers from new 21 years ago and wish to see if it will work with Windows 10 so I can show it working and sell it and avoid taking it to the tip.
Bonjour pourrait vous mais dire quelle pilote de installation je puis installer pour cette imprimante svp merci je cherche sur Epson mais comment je ne pas le pilote déjà installer ils propose que la mise a jours si on la déjà installer sur le site officiel
Bonjour et bonne fêtes a vous aussi, merci je vous l'acheté si vous le trouve et mais le vendez pour le system pour (Windows 10). Je vous souhaite une bonne fin d'année. Cordialement@@richardsorge-
People still used them. They get Remanufactor cartridges. A few years ago use to services these 3 times a week.. I got to know this printer very well. Serviced one a few months back, as needed a complete overhaul maintenance as heads were clogged. Pretty much had to rebuild it and changed out waste pads and two new pumps and do full alignment. Not a easy printer to service, you will need the service manual for it. I was a authorized Epson and Samsung service technician for years. We service mostly wide format printers. Most upgraded and when over to the 3800, or 7800 series from this. So not very many in service anymore. The HP wide format printers are my favorite as head assembly as well as other critical parts are designed to be modular. This one you do need the service manual as you have to likely overhaul it and remove the head and you will have to do a full alignment and gap adjustment. You Likely will have to change waste pads wiping and clapping mechanism. Almost can guarantee the nozzles on the head will be clogged and waste pads likely full.
Do these print very good quality? Is it worth the time to perform all that work? I work with computers/printers by trade so I could certainly get it going again with enough time, I'm just not sure it's worth it. I already have 2 other good working laser printers, one color, one monochrome.
@@JordanU They were really design for signs and t-shirts transfer prints, sublimation t shirt printing. Not really useful for regular printing, plus those printer don't like to sit as nozzles in head clogs easily. Then the dye ink it uses has been discontinued and remanufactor cartridges are also getting hard to source. The 3000/7000 can't use pigment ink as they will clog and damaged the head. I had to replace a few heads due to customers tried anyways. It was definitely a good printer for its time, quality was good and was a true workhorse. As long as they didn't sit and using correct dye ink, they were reliable. As far as rebuilding it, I probably won't invest the time and money as consumable supplies and parts are getting hard to come by, plus just not worth much as far as reselling goes.
@@thetechgenie7374 I'd never use this with any regularity, I guess it's probably not worth the time. It will still be a nice display piece for my "museum" of obsolete technology.
Is anyone interested in buying one? I used it for a few months back in 2002 to print transparencies for screenprinting on the weekends. It was awesome for that. I'm sure it would need to be fully serviced. I've kept it inside well stored all these years. It was bought new at the time.
I've been told to hold onto this one and try to sell it, but the cost to ship the unit is probably hundreds. I still have it, but have no idea what to do with it.
Besides the addition of the unnecessary "the" to words, and deliberate mispronunciation of "cartridges", I am glad you got the color names right. Though "Cannon" should be "Canyon", as in "Canyon Blue". The connection to that printer is PARALLEL, not serial. No amount of "I said it purposely" that way is excusable. The other PS/2-looking connection appears to be an Apple-specific port, like either something like an ADB connection port for the old Apple IIc and early Macintosh machines, or perhaps it even offers AppleTalk. There's not a very good chance it's going to print again, unless it was still in service up until you got it. Otherwise, ink has dried up to such a degree that it's going to be near impossible to have it flow again. If you take a closer look at the ribbon cables going to the heads, there is a black one in there, those are actually ink tubes that carry the ink from the cartridges to the heads. Older Epson printers sometimes could be revived using Windex with Ammonia, but they actually don't offer that product for sale any longer. It's possible that straight ammonia would work, but I've never had the opportunity to try it. “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” That rings true especially here in the comments, with your incessant replies to a certain spammer "Michael Porter", as if it's going to change anything. He has successfully wasted your time, if nothing else, but you've frittered away what time was left, bothering to actually reply and/or entertain the comment, only to have it happen again in the next video.
I happen to have some Windex with Ammonia still, it was an excellent product and I've used it to clean things in probably hundreds of videos now. I was not aware it was no longer in production, that's quite a shame. In case it was in use up until recently, I'm going to try to get it connected to a machine that will work with it at some point. But since I have no regular use for it, if it doesn't work, I won't be attempting a repair any time soon. You're partaking in the same insanity you're accusing me of.
@@JordanU I actually looked it up, and I stand corrected. The product is available. Last time I checked, which was a few years ago, I did not see it available. Not all variants of Windex have ammonia, but ammonia makes an excellent glass cleaner. With the date of those cartridges, I highly doubt it was in much use past the latest date, which was still a respectable run for an inkjet printer. That particular printer appears to be able to take ledger-size paper (11x17", or 2 8.5x11" sheets together), and may even be able to take 13x19" paper. Being that the printer has a feed knob on the side, I would not be surprised if it offered the ability to accept tractor-feed paper, as maybe a dot-matrix replacement type printer, for high volume prints (based on the physical size of the cartridges). I was not partaking in the same, I was simply stating a fact.
@@JordanU I suggested it because I watched many videos put out by a US man who made continuous ink tank systems as aftermarket add-ons. He claimed that if the cartridges have a microchip on the back of them Epsom will issue updates when they know he has created new things in order to prevent the printers working with them. It was him that suggested turning off printer update. You know best, of course, I have no experience in this.
