shpitz, I can't see the picture.
freqz,
the waste ink pad on these compact printers are small and it doesn't take many cleanings to run the counter up. Once you get into dismantling the print head. You're into tech level territory and reassembly resealing is critical. It is possible that the printer has a defect somewhere as well. For the time being, use wicreset to reset the counter or the appropriate adjprog.exe if you can find it and carry on.
I personally have not dismantled the heads on these because I have never had the need. So I can't help you at that level.
On these printers, any broken seal or leak will cause bad printing and diagnosing is not simple because of the tubes in the middle not immediately allowing any fixes to appear immediately on retrying. When they work, they're nice printers. When they go wonky, they can be monsters.
I have been warning people about forcing cleaning solutions with pressure on the newer Epson printheads. The old printers would survive this nicely. I have run across a couple of examples where this is causing damage rather than curing a problem. Only do this as the ABSOLUTE last resort and you have nothing to lose. Otherwise you might be hurting the printhead. The printhead on the Artisan has high nozzle densities and might be more fragile as well.
freqz,
the waste ink pad on these compact printers are small and it doesn't take many cleanings to run the counter up. Once you get into dismantling the print head. You're into tech level territory and reassembly resealing is critical. It is possible that the printer has a defect somewhere as well. For the time being, use wicreset to reset the counter or the appropriate adjprog.exe if you can find it and carry on.
I personally have not dismantled the heads on these because I have never had the need. So I can't help you at that level.
On these printers, any broken seal or leak will cause bad printing and diagnosing is not simple because of the tubes in the middle not immediately allowing any fixes to appear immediately on retrying. When they work, they're nice printers. When they go wonky, they can be monsters.
I have been warning people about forcing cleaning solutions with pressure on the newer Epson printheads. The old printers would survive this nicely. I have run across a couple of examples where this is causing damage rather than curing a problem. Only do this as the ABSOLUTE last resort and you have nothing to lose. Otherwise you might be hurting the printhead. The printhead on the Artisan has high nozzle densities and might be more fragile as well.
Heck I used to collect my waste and and resuse it as black ( And it worked nicely too ).
