[DM-MUG] Re: Purple

[AB]

Ray, 

I've had to troubleshoot this problem for many people. Go through all the printer maintence and
diagnostic tests as Matthew advised before you get into uninstalling/reinstalling drivers and
firmware and such as Epson wanted you to do. Keep in mind ink does dry up and has an expiration
date. Turn your printer off if going longer than 3 days without using it. Worst case scenario: the
printer head needs replaced.

Refill cartridges are not recommended unless you're doing office quality printing. Some places
have recycle programs and incentives. 

Just curious, how do you like the Printable CD/DVD feature? In my experience with the Epsons, they
force end users to have all catridges, otherwise it won't allow you to print. I've always wondered
if that is common among all the brands to force consumers to buy more ink or if it is just an
Epson brand thing? Anyone know?

BTW Purple has replaced blue as my favorite color. heh heh. Hope everyone had a dandy holiday.

~Angela
Designer · Writer · Muse


--- Ray Bowler <rbowler at mchsi.com> wrote:

> Thanks to CW and Matthew.
> 
> CW,
> 
> New Epson cartridges. I have never trusted refills.
> 
> Matthew,
> 
> I had the same experience as you did with clogging nozzles on this 
> and a former Epson. A year ago I bought a monochrome laser and the 
> Epson has been powered down unless actually printing. When I did the 
> nozzle check it was fine.
> 
> In the meantime I have contacted Epson and they want me to delete the 
> old Epson drivers and install new ones and go through a bunch of 
> other stuff to set it up again. I think this is a task for morning.
> 
> 
> 
> At 8:19 PM -0600 12/26/07, CW Smith wrote:
> >Are you using refilled cartridges, or new ones?
> >
> >On Dec 26, 2007 6:19 PM, Ray Bowler 
> ><<mailto:rbowler at mchsi.com>rbowler at mchsi.com> wrote:
> >
> >Epson Stylus C88 started printing purple all the time. Grass is
> >purple, plants are purple,  grayscale is  purple. Print text pattern
> >is fine and cleaning the heads doesn't help. Any ideas?
> >--
> >Ray Bowler
> >
> ><http://rbowler.home.mchsi.com>rbowler.home.mchsi.com
> >
> >--
> >Curt (CW) Smith
> >Musician, Composer, Producer, Technician
> >
> >Personal: <mailto:cwsmith7 at gmail.com>cwsmith7 at gmail.com
> >Technical: <mailto:cw at gohaddock.com>cw at gohaddock.com
> >Musical: <mailto:cwsmith at spymac.com>cwsmith at spymac.com
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ray Bowler
> 
> rbowler.home.mchsi.com



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