Epson L800 - Cheap Oem Ink, Damaged Printhead?

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That's definitely an interesting development and confirms what I'd always suspected about these L800's being P50 wolves in cheap* clothing

*apologies for the "sheep" <> "cheap" play on words there

One thing though... Have you checked the WICReset advanced functions with the L800, P50 or any other related printer? I'm trying to wrack my brains to remember if it's possible to convert the printers between models or not...

 

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It looks like a nice setup all right, so I hope you don’t go and bugger up your other printer by using the same type of CISS (Marriott) with pigment inks ?

 

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One thing though... Have you checked the WICReset advanced functions with the L800, P50 or any other related printer? I'm trying to wrack my brains to remember if it's possible to convert the printers between models or not...

Russians do this, but AFAIK the only real convert is to re-solder chip or change whole motherboard.

 

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So what about replacing the P50 Board with and L800 board and sticking a CISS onto that Printer?

Well I tried it and it WORKS PERFECTLY

While I agree that this is cheaper but if I consider

1. how much 6 bottles of ink costs
2. how much good ciss costs that doesn't have rusting springs syndrome
3. No warranty if you re-soldered the chip

This makes it not worth to buy and convert any P50 to L800 for that matter.

 

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>1. a 70ml Bottle of L800 ink cost 9€

Same in my country.

>5 Liters (5000ml ) for 150 USD thats 3 Cent per mil... OCP Dye Inks
But EPSON ink has better color stability, and better gamut. I'm basing this from stock profiles and profiles I have created for similar OCP dye ink. Even octopus does not recomment OCP ink if you need large gamut.

3. If I swap the hole board warranty is not a problem BUT since I have to open the printer and do something epson services would never cover anything if its goes bad.

EPSON warranty checks if you used genuine ink by using spectrophotometer, you have to keep the genuine bottles handy, wash the printer and use the genuine ink bottles to trick the EPSON to have your printer in warranty.

 

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I have NOTHING to do execpt checking the paper this thing is a beast.

Don't you have banding problem on A6 paper, there are many reports in russian forums?
Do you always print at best photo mode and with Photo RPM on?

 

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Here are many posts about this:

http://resetters.ru/index.php?showtopic=30631&st=0
http://s019.radikal.ru/i607/1210/05/6ff3d23c47ef.jpg

Search google "l800 полосит в режиме фото" use google translate