quick epson 890 printing question

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Is it possible to print in black when the colour ink cartridge is
empty or removed or am I going to have to fork out for (yet another)
colour cartridge.

SuzyB
 
Is it possible to print in black when the colour ink cartridge is
empty or removed or am I going to have to fork out for (yet another)
colour cartridge.

SuzyB
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Quick answer is NO.

Epson drivers do not allow any printing while any Cart is empty or removed.

If you don't have ink in all the channels you will completely destroy your
printer.

Read the manual.

Roy G
 
Quick answer is NO.

Epson drivers do not allow any printing while any Cart is empty or removed.

If you don't have ink in all the channels you will completely destroy your
printer.

Read the manual.

Roy G
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er...manual, whoops forgot about checking that...sorry.

Thanks for your help.
 
measekite said:
Just fill the color cart with black ink and the printer will print black
ink.
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It can't be happening.

YKW is advocating filling a cartridge with ink, and to do so, it would need
to be non-original ink.

Someone must be forging his name, or I have become dyslexic.

Roy G
 
Roy G said:
It can't be happening.

YKW is advocating filling a cartridge with ink, and to do so, it would
need to be non-original ink.

Someone must be forging his name, or I have become dyslexic.

Roy G
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The shock made me forget to say that it is a very good solution to the
problem.

Roy G
 
Epson printers require at minimum, cartridges that appear to the printer
to have ink still in them for the printer to continue working.

I suggest to people if they tend no use only black for printing, and
already own an inkjet (as opposed to a B&W aser printer) that they
refill their color cartridge with something like windex or dilute glycol
or glycerol mixture and have the cartridge chip reset. Resetters sell
for between $5 and $15 US "around the internet" Just get the one
correct for the cartridge type you use.

The other option is to use the "ink freezing" feature from the website
shown below. In most cases this needs to be done prior to the cartridge
reading empty. Also, should the cartridge run out of ink, the head may
clog with the ink residue and be more difficult to rehydrate and make
funtional should you later decide to print with color again.


http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml


Art
 
This is an exaggeration.

Epson's head do not use head, but instead are piezo electric "crystals".

The ink has very little effect on them if it is there or not, other than
a very slight viscosity difference between the ink and air.

The only real damage to come from no ink is if the ink residue dries and
clogs the channels or impedes the piezo plates. In the head were to
have no ink in it, you would be hard pressed to damage the head.

The problem is if the cartridge is removed, two thing occur. One the
ink dries leaving a residue which may clog channels and nozzles, and
secondly once the channels are completely dry, there can be an air lock
in getting the ink to return, if or when desired.

Now, just to be clear, this does not hold true for thermal ink heads
which require the ink to be a coolant, and if the heads are running with
no ink, they will get damaged and excessively hot and burn out or the
nozzles may distort. Thermal heads are either contained as part of the
cartridge, in which case they are "supposed" to be replaced when a new
cartridge goes in with fresh ink, or they are semi-permanent (semi
because all thermal heads eventually fail) (the exception MAY be the new
Kodak head which I've not yet seen a clear design of).

The semi-permanent heads are at most danger of running out of ink,
because they are designed to last many ink cartridge changes and they
also heat up. Examples of these include Canon, and maybe Kodak and some
HP printers. The "disposable" heads which come on cartridges are found
in many HP and Lexmark, and older BJ series Canons, and Dell, which are
rebranded and slightly redesigned Lexmark printers.

Art
 
Not necessarily.

Although I don't know the exact context of this message, since I long
ago blocked YKW from my inbox, most inkjet printers go through a
cleaning cycle when they are turned on. They clean all heads, and
therefore all cartridges are drained equally of ink.

Filling all the cartridges with black ink, means they will all
eventually run out of black ink, and since you lose the ability to print
color anyway, it is better to just fill the color cartridge with
something cheap, like cleaning or a mix of ethylene glycol and water,
which costs pennies.

Art
 
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