Epson 1430 Prints Blanks

[Steven Brown]

I have a refurbished Epson 1430 that I have loaded with B&W carbon inks from inksupply.com. I can see that there is ink in the cartridges and the Epson utility shows the same. However when I make a print the page comes out blank (white). I have gotten it to lay some ink on the page after pressing the ink charging button a few times, but it is not enough to form an image. Does anyone have an idea of what I can do to fix this?

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

did you use this printer before with regular inks - regular cartridges or refill ? What is the history of this printer - refurbished - by Epson ? How does the nozzle check look - please print, scan and upload here .

 

[Steven Brown]

This printer came refurbished from/by Epson about one week ago. I never put the color inks in, just the carbon inks. Nozzle check test prints blank as well. Unfortunately the printer is at the school where I teach, which is 30 miles from my current location.

 

[Steven Brown]

The cartridges are refill cartridges from ink supply.com filled with carbon b&w ink.

 

[The Hat]

It sounds like you didn’t prime the cartridges properly or at all....
Get a set of cheap filled cartridges to test and I bet it will print no bother...

 

[Steven Brown]

Well, Epson did include ink cartridges with the printer, so I can try those. To be honest I did not prime the cartridges before I started printing. Will I need to do anything special now to make it work? Thank you, by the way, for your assistance.

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

Start up instructions should be supplied with the cartridges, there are some types of models with a somewhat different internal ink channel routing and filtering. A WICReset utility, available on the internet, offers a function 'Ink charge' for most Epson printers which is running an extended cleaning cycle to suck more ink and remaining air than a normal cleaning cycle. But first get the printer running with regular ink cartridges - as supplied .

 

[Steven Brown]

Thank, everyone, for your replies. I got the printer to working by removing the little rubber plugs on the top of each of the cartridges. There were no instructions from inksupply and there wasn’t a vent hole in the OEM cartridges, so I didn’t know to do this. I figured this out after replacing the third party carts with the OEM ones, which printed fine. I the put the carbon inks back in, sans plugs, and all was fine.
Thank you, again, to all who tried to help me.

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

Thanks for your feedback, even if it sounds simple the purpose of the plugs on those cartrigdes should have been explained.