Epson Fantasy?

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Sherwin Dubren

I have only been using my Epson EX500 a few weeks now, but I have noticed
something strange about the ink indicators. Except for a few 8X10 photos
I printed, most of my printing has been 'black ink only' text printings.
However, my ink indicators are showing almost an equal drop in levels for
both the black and 5 colors.

Epson has the following explanation. Although I am printing black text,
the printer uses all the colors to give a 'richer' cast to the text. My
text files look like ordinary print results. I can't believe they are
using the color inks to do black specified text prints, and if they are,
they are probably a fraction of the black ink used. If I were doing prints of
things with various shades of grey, their theory might be a bit
more plausible, but still kind of unbelievable. They are telling me that
I have a 'Photo' printer, which is not designed to be ink sparing for black only
text. Why do they have a setting that specifies 'black ink only'.

My theory is that they have a very stupid ink consumption calculator that
automatically reduces all ink levels based on how many prints are done.
If I check the ink level of all colors, they are identical (in my case 80%).
I can't believe the 3 photos I made used exactly the same amount of each color!
Another words, I think their ink level logic is a toy. No wonder people are
buying
the resetters to get their value out of these cartridges.

Sherwin Dubren
 
Subject: Epson Fantasy?

More like Epson Science Fiction. They want a world where everyone is
compensated, so long as everyone is the big corporations. Next thing will be
Celsius 232 where they burn all the books and gadgets that reset the cartridge.
 
Sherwin Dubren said:
I have only been using my Epson EX500 a few weeks now, but I have noticed
something strange about the ink indicators. Except for a few 8X10 photos
I printed, most of my printing has been 'black ink only' text printings.
However, my ink indicators are showing almost an equal drop in levels for
both the black and 5 colors.
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Underprinting and overprinting - a term used by a recent PC-Pro review -
established that Epson and I think, from memory, Lexmark admitted using the
technique to enhance black printing. Canon declined to comment.
The chip counts pages and guestimates usage.
The JetTec solution - after more than a years research - is the 30% extra
chip which resets automatically and allows the usage of the remaining ink:
which could I suppose raise the issue that Epson may be encouraging you to
junk 30% of the remaining ink.
Tony.
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Epson C64/ C84 Lighfast (30% more free) pigmented inks.
Canon BCI-3 i560 i750 BCI-6 i865 S-820 / S-900 series.
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They probably also cycle the colours when you power up to "keep the heads
open"
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And when you restart the computer.
And when you print after not printing for a few hours.
And when leave your desk to make a sandwich or go to the toilet.
And...
 
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