JStshirts

This is my first time posting so bear with me.

I have an Epson SP1400 hooked up to a bigfoot continuous ink system with Artanium ink. It has been working great, except when we had a lot of snow and ice and I couldn't get to the printer to make sure I printed something every day or so. It probably got below freezing at least once in the building, I think the heat was off.

I always leave the printer plugged in, and it usually does a cleaning cycle every once in a while that seems to help the print, but this time when I came in, I went to print something and it said that I needed to replace the yellow and light cyan cartridges. I took a look and the ink had run back up the line. I tried re-pressurizing and it didn't work. Then ended up empting all the cartridges and starting over with filling and setting up the system.

When I finally got the ink back into the cartridges and what seemed to be a pressurized system, we put the cartridges back in. At first it had an x over every cartridge saying they all needed to be replaced then it went back to just the yellow and light cyan. I checked to make sure ink would come out of the print head on the cartridge and it did just fine. I also reset the cartridges and the printer went through its process then again said bad yellow and light cyan. I can see they are both full of ink. Does anyone have any ideas?
Should I just replace those two cartridges?

Thanks!

Jim
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printpuppy

what is the longest someone out there has been using a continuous system for their printer? could you share some experience with us all?

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ralphe

worst case, the chips quit.., replace them with new ones, it's easy. If you need to print right away, remove the chips from a appropriate new epson cart, and put them in the cis cart, that should last until you can get replacement chips. But do not go to this trouble until you are certain that you can not reset the chips showing empty.

Oh, and once I beat this problem by disabling the epson status monitor which I have not used since aquiring the ssc service utility, but that may not work with your printer.

 

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