What happens to the ink?

[Walter R.]

I have an Epson CX 5200. I use it only for B& W. However, the color
cartridges get used up due to the cleaning process.

Since the color ink does not go onto the paper, where does it end up?

 

[Tony1that matters]

I have an Epson CX 5200. I use it only for B& W. However, the color
cartridges get used up due to the cleaning process.

Since the color ink does not go onto the paper, where does it end up?

The ink fairy comes in the dead of night... actually they more resemble
Bee's but nasty lookers and black with a CMY tail. They descend like locusts
on a town - so efficient and quiet you'll never notice them: next day the
whole town starts buying ink cartridges.
I reckon they are in the employ of Epson, Canon, HP et al.
In a recent PC-Pro article ( Capitalistic greed, and extortionate prices)
underprinting was mentioned. HP and Epson make use of it, but Canon declined
to comment. Blacks are enhanced by printing over a colour base.
Apart from that the Epson has disposable soak-away pads under the parked
heads used as well for the cleaning cycles. Condensation will occur and over
fifty years you'll have a multi coloured ceiling over etched with black -
which if you're my age is immaterial.
Tony

 

[Andrew Rossmann]

[This followup was posted to comp.periphs.printers and a copy was sent to
the cited author.]

I have an Epson CX 5200. I use it only for B& W. However, the color
cartridges get used up due to the cleaning process.

Since the color ink does not go onto the paper, where does it end up?

If it's like other Epson printers, there is giant napkin on the bottom
of the printer that absorbs all the wasted ink.

 

[David Mann]

I have an Epson CX 5200. I use it only for B& W. However, the color
cartridges get used up due to the cleaning process.

Since the color ink does not go onto the paper, where does it end up?

In a pad under the printer.
When the printer thinks the pad is full, it will stop working. See previous
threads.

David

 

[Don Davis]

It's really a felt pad. It can be filled up in time. I don't know if all,
but some printers will shut down when the printer thinks that the pad is
full. I had three printers so far and none have failed for that reason. The
printer will probably become obsolete and replaced before the pad fills.
Don Davis

[This followup was posted to comp.periphs.printers and a copy was sent to
the cited author.]

I have an Epson CX 5200. I use it only for B& W. However, the color
cartridges get used up due to the cleaning process.

Since the color ink does not go onto the paper, where does it end up?

If it's like other Epson printers, there is giant napkin on the bottom
of the printer that absorbs all the wasted ink.

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[My father's son]

I have found the opposite: The replaceable pads fill up and the printer
dies. Completely.

I have wondered in another thread if is this why there is no free
technical or, - more relevant, - e-mail support on Epson printers or easily
accessable downloads (for example of a utility to reset this full pad report
which seems to kill a large number of Epson printers stone dead? Epson seems
to want you to have to pay them to tell you to EITHER pay more than the
printer is worth to get it fixed OR go and buy a new printer?

It's really a felt pad. It can be filled up in time. I don't know if all,
but some printers will shut down when the printer thinks that the pad is
full. I had three printers so far and none have failed for that reason. The
printer will probably become obsolete and replaced before the pad fills.
Don Davis

[This followup was posted to comp.periphs.printers and a copy was sent to
the cited author.]

I have an Epson CX 5200. I use it only for B& W. However, the color
cartridges get used up due to the cleaning process.

Since the color ink does not go onto the paper, where does it end up?

If it's like other Epson printers, there is giant napkin on the bottom
of the printer that absorbs all the wasted ink.

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[Gary Tait]

I have found the opposite: The replaceable pads fill up and the printer
dies. Completely.

I have wondered in another thread if is this why there is no free
technical or, - more relevant, - e-mail support on Epson printers or easily
accessable downloads (for example of a utility to reset this full pad report
which seems to kill a large number of Epson printers stone dead? Epson seems
to want you to have to pay them to tell you to EITHER pay more than the
printer is worth to get it fixed OR go and buy a new printer?

There are utilities and/or codeds to reset the ink counter for most
Epson and Canon pronters. I don't know about HP/Lexmark, ut they are
probably similar.

It's really a felt pad. It can be filled up in time. I don't know if all,
but some printers will shut down when the printer thinks that the pad is
full. I had three printers so far and none have failed for that reason. The
printer will probably become obsolete and replaced before the pad fills.
Don Davis

[This followup was posted to comp.periphs.printers and a copy was sent to
the cited author.]

I have an Epson CX 5200. I use it only for B& W. However, the color
cartridges get used up due to the cleaning process.

Since the color ink does not go onto the paper, where does it end up?

If it's like other Epson printers, there is giant napkin on the bottom
of the printer that absorbs all the wasted ink.

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