Rescued Artisan 810

[William Seaward]

While taking out the garbage tonight, I ran across an Artisan 810 in the dumpster. It took some doing, but I got it out and took it home. Over all, the case was in pretty good condition and to my surprise, it had a perfect nozzle check. The only issue was the ink was low... go figure! Why do people throw out perfectly good printers like this?

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

that user probably took the chance of those special Canon Pro 100 deals...... one Epson user less

 

[The Hat]

tonight, I ran across an Artisan 810 in the dumpster. and to my surprise, it had a perfect nozzle check. The only issue was the ink was low..

@William Seaward, If your luck with collecting Orphan printers continues, you may need to seek donations from all the ink suppliers to feed them...

Congratulations on another good find.
That’s how many ?...

 

[William Seaward]

That’s how many ?

Don't get me wrong (and I'm admitting nothing) but I'm not a hoarder. It's just hard to pass up the "good deal" and sometimes it even surpasses that. For example, who, on this forum, would pass up a Pro-1 for $50? Yes, like 99% of these orphans, it was out of ink and their original owners didn't want to purchase more. I did have to drive 3 hours to get it, but I grabbed the wife and we took the cameras and spent the day doing a photo shoot.

When it's all said and done, I wouldn't just throw a perfectly good printer in the trash bin... I'd take it to GoodWill and let someone else write about their "good deal".

 

[William Seaward]

I wanted to thank @Mowerman90... he sent me some refillable carts with auto reset chips for the Epson Artisan 810 along with some PC inks. Isn't this the BEST forum!

 

[te36]

Getting used equipment for free or on the cheap is also a great way to learn and help make decisions:

Last year i bought a perfect condition XP-620 via craigslist for $30 after the first XP-820 i bought new failed and had to be returned (just hassle, got my money back). I also managed to trash the XP-620 playing around with various refill options: Some time that printer would not power on at all. Not sure if it was anything i did. But in any case, experimenting with refill made me conclude that i would rather go for a vendor CISS option in the larger printer (got myself an L1800 now).

I also tried to dismantle and put together the broken XP-620 which made me conclude that i definitely wouldn't want to try to physcially repair a printer - or swap waste ink tanks. Too many fragile plastic pieces. So rather attach an external waste ink pad to my L1800 in hopefully a far future...

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

use the WICReset utility to check the status of the waste ink reservoir now and then, it's free, and you won't be hit suddenly when the driver reports it full. If you do repairs, taking printers apart etc you can get helpful information from the service/maintenance manuals. @PeterBJ knows all the free places to find those. And beyond that I only can agree that a tank system model provides quite some convenience - no cartridge swapping anymore and related issues, much less handling of ink bottles etc. I have decommissioned all my cartridge based printers now, except one I use for swapping and testing inks as needed.

 

[PeterBJ]

The link to the service manual in the service manuals thread no longer works, but I found a couple of other sites. See this post.

My secret to finding service manuals is Google, patience and luck.

 

[William Seaward]

use the WICReset utility to check the status of the waste ink reservoir now and then, it's free, and you won't be hit suddenly when the driver reports it full. If you do repairs, taking printers apart etc you can get helpful information from the service/maintenance manuals. @PeterBJ knows all the free places to find those. And beyond that I only can agree that a tank system model provides quite some convenience - no cartridge swapping anymore and related issues, much less handling of ink bottles etc. I have decommissioned all my cartridge based printers now, except one I use for swapping and testing inks as needed.

Going to have to check out this "WICReset" utility...

The link to the service manual in the service manuals thread no longer works, but I found a couple of other sites. See this post.

My secret to finding service manuals is Google, patience and luck.

Thanks for the service manual... this will come in handy.

 

[te36]

Indeed. Have not yet tried to measure with WICreset how much waste ink changes through cleaning cycles. I did through on the XP- series last year and thats how i got away from them. Except the one XP-900 in a place where i have very low volume.

Luckily WICreset also works on MacOS.

Yes, have not yet managed to find fully appropriate service manuals. The repair place in Germany ISF pointed me to last year has at least explosion pictures which make it clear that alas the L1800 has no easily swapped waste ink container. But without the repeated cartridge replacement cleaning cycles of catridge models and A3 size, that tank should live on quite a while for my printing volumes.