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Yes. After running into a dead end on the manufacturer site, driver websites, search engines, etc, I re-doubled my efforts and dug deep... searching all my obscure driver resources, tech forums, and even directly soliciting other users who got in on the same deal I did (SlickDeals thread). No...

Yeah, I see that most "new" R280 printers sold recently were open-box without the ink but I saw enough other examples to see that a totally new/unopened one typically sells for about 10x-11x what I paid at The Salvation Army thrift store. The "open box" ones reach the same territory often...

The printer was only a couple years old at the time (if even that) but it was probably about 11 years ago. No idea what the model number was now but, as a professional computer technician then, I was a real driver sleuth and would've found it if Sharp had ever shared a downloadable version! It...

64g is totally bone dry, even without the ~15ml that is usually left behind when they report empty. That means you probably have air in the lines too. This usually happens with the MK or PK due to the ink switch failing and leaking it all out into the capstand/maintenance cart (unbeknownst to...

Just found a brand new in box with all the ink and everything Epson Photo Stylus R280 "Ultra Hi-Definition Photo Printer" and I need a little help deciding what to do with it. It's an old model but I see it selling for 10x what I paid... likely because it's still used for DTG printing. Anyway...

I had a monochrome Sharp multifuntion scan, copy, fax, laser printer and I had to scrap it because the drivers were not available online. I called Sharp, they confirmed I could not download it and told me I had to get a new driver disc. They said I had to get it from their authorized parts guy...

Many of them are basically cameras on pedestals. For some, the resolution really only has to be good enough to get decent OCR and the color accuracy is not important. I’m going to be scanning and printing directly to A2 photo papers on a high end photo printer with minimal skills for touching up...

I’m looking for recommendations on an oversized flatbed scanner. I know A3/wide format flatbeds exist but I was hoping for something even larger, like A2. I’ll happily accept SuperA3+ or Tabloid/A3 scanner recommendations too, since I can stitch multiple smaller scans and it would still save me...

LOL! I thought it was strange that Jose’s asking for these when he sold me some T58 carts earlier this year and was offering more to others... then I saw the date. Yowza! Thanks for everything you do, Jose.

Awesome! So happy that your investment was salvageable. :)

LOL! Not keeping nearly all of it but I will have one 700mL cart for every K3VM color as a result... and then some (spare 80mL carts). Maybe I should’ve just bought the printer these carts were intended for! ;)

Thanks. I recalled that the inkset for a particular UltraChrome HDR printer sometimes has UltraChrome K3 Vivid Magenta logos on the carts except for the colors exclusive to HDR (O and G). So I went ahead and pulled the trigger on a ton of other T636 carts (well, 10.5 liters ;)). Actually, they...

For sourcing ink from larger industrial printers, I’m trying to figure out which colors are the same between the different UltraChrome ink sets. Here’s the sum total of what I know so far, edited with contributions from Ink stained Fingers below: Epson UltraChrome (UC) is Epson’s first pigment...

As a thrift store find, my 3880 came to me with that problem. I approached it with that same attitude and, as a result, I may have been the first to publicly report success replacing it without an adjustment program/ink initialization... and I managed to fix the old ink switch valve. :)...

I got several reams of Xerox Digital Color Select Gloss from a thrift store in anticipation of a future project where I am going to need a lot of oversized paper. It was super cheap! Unfortunately, it doesn’t work with inkjets and it’s too big for any of my laser printers. Would a place like...

A dielectric grease or Deoxit could help. They sell dielectric grease as “bulb grease” in auto parts stores. I would wipe it almost completely off before installing it but leave a barely noticible thin layer. I’ve seen this stuff work wonders for spring-loaded contacts, D-subs, and other...

Some would suggest the Epson Adjustment Program to initialize the ink lines but that will waste a lot of ink on all the other lines and still might not solve the issue if there is a clog or leaks somewhere. I would try to manually pressurize the cyan cartridge while installed to see if it forces...

One more thing the 3880 has over the Pro-100 is a flat-path input tray for thicker media, like poster board. It’s limited to 16” and even Epson doesn’t seem to make photo printable poster board in that size, but I’ve seen it used for other cool stuff... like printing directly on photo-treated...

I thought about it and then I thought about whether or not I should be letting it in the lines at all when there would be some residual LLK in the PK. Then I wondered if it would be better to extract it and mix is back with the LK so that any residual LK would be even more dilute. Of course, the...

Well, Jose Rodríguez has some horror stories about internally-punctured ink bags and leaky valves if you do it wrong. Perhaps it would be better to transfer to an intermediary container. When I switch to my premodified T58 carts I’ll get some practice when I modify my others. Still not sure if...