Replacing Epson cartridge before its run out of ink.

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I need to fit a cleaning cartridge in my Epson 880 printer, but cannot
move the existing ink cartridges to the cartridge change position. It
seems this cannot happen until the "empty cartridge light" comes on. Is
there a way of overiding this?

AL
 
If you hold down the ink button until you hear it start to move it will move
to the center and allow you to change the cartridge.

This is from the Epson website.


Q: How do I replace an ink cartridge before the Status Monitor 3
window message says it's out, such as with an outdated Ink Cartridge?
A: 1. Make sure the printer is plugged in but not printing.

2. Click "Start", point to "Settings", then select Printers.

3. Right click the "EPSON Stylus COLOR 880" icon and click
"Properties" from the menu that appears.

4. Click the "Utility" tab, then click the "Ink Cartridge Replacement"
button.

5. Follow the instructions on the screen to replace the ink cartridge.

6. Wait several minutes until the printer has completed charging the
ink before resuming printing.
 
Look underneath the tray that holds the ink carts and you should see a small
plastic pin which stops the tray being pushed into the parking position.
Gently push this pin to one side using a cocktail stick or tooth pick and
you should then be able to pull the tray into the parking position.

BTW you can do this with the printer switched off

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Regards oB2u
 
Hold the paper infeed button on the 880 for about 5 seconds. Change your
cartridge and push the paper infeed button again. At that point you can also
push the color.black ink button to get the same effect of moving the head
back to the right and do a head clean as well.
 
Yes. It is usually mentioned in the instruction manual under "replacing
an outdated ink cartridge" (in this case, page 26)...

Press the load/eject button and hold for about 3 seconds until the print
head moves left and the power light begins flashing. Pull up the
cartridge clamp, lift cartridge out of printer and dispose. Install new
cartridge. Press down on ink clamp. Press load/eject again and close
printer cover.
....

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