Epson 1280 primes all the time

[Arthur Entlich]

It is somewhat offensive and disappointing feeling any sense of
necessity to defend oneself to the likes of some individuals.

Although I appreciate your concerns, I don't think his accusations are
worthy of any reply.

Art

 

[Jan Alter]

There are a few possibilities here. The cartridge chips do eventually
fail after being reset numerous times.

Yes, there is a lithium cell in the printer which holds a number of bits
of back up data through volatile memory.

Yes, there is a specific 890/1280/1290 service manual. You should not
have to pay more than ewe bucks on on of the ebay or website vendors, as a
pdf file.

Art

Hi Art,
Happy New year.
Do you have any specifics and or experience as to how many times chips can
be reset before they're fodder? In my case at school, I have seven C84 s set
up at this point using the spongeless cartridges, and it would be helpful to
know what kind of life expectancy I could consider for the chips. I'd also
be interested in knowing the longevity of the cartridges themselves before
they start leaking or breaking down.
Do you have any long term information about ARC s (auto reset chips? I
just purchased a set of them for a C88 from alotofthings.com and they write
in their description that the chips have been tested through 30 cycles.

Thanks,

 

[Meander Holefield]

The problem you've explained seems to have nothing to do with 3rd part
cartridges and I would expect Epson to deal as such. and fix your machine.
They could use some good publicity for all the negatives they've been
getting in the past year. For what it's worth, since you've got this dream,
I've been using a R1800 for a year and a half (half a year with cartridges I
fill) and it's a delight to use.

Thanks. The R1800 or something similar is once again a dream.

This Epson Stylus Photo 1280 has, for some reason unknown to me,
spontaneously fixed itself. I'll describe the quirky behavior in another
post at the bottom of this thread. (Well, at the bottom where the bottom
is today.)

//rus\\

 

[Meander Holefield]

Thanks. The R1800 or something similar is once again a dream.

This Epson Stylus Photo 1280 has, for some reason unknown to me,
spontaneously fixed itself. I'll describe the quirky behavior in another
post at the bottom of this thread. (Well, at the bottom where the bottom
is today.)

//rus\\

Dagnabbit !!! It just malfunctioned again. Back to square one.

//rus\\

 

[Meander Holefield]

This Epson Stylus Photo 1280 has, for some reason unknown to me,
spontaneously fixed itself.
//rus\\

Dagnabbit !!! It's malfunctioning again. Back to square one!

//rus\\

 

[Meander Holefield]

I see our resident idiot offered his lying response about your Epson
printer.
Don't believe a word of his response.
He's never, ever used after market inks so he knows nothing about them.
He does not own an Epson printer, so his opinion is worthless especially
his bullshit about you voiding your warranty.
You didn't.
Frank

Those people don't bother me. They're in all the newsgroups these days.
Because these UseNet posts are archived and displayed in all sorts of
unusual places on the web and because they are read by people who don't
know what a UseNet troublemaker is all about, I respond to them sometimes.

Like, this time, that idiot's posts might scare some new printer user from
using 3rd party ink. I wounldn't want that to happen.

//rus\\

 

[measekite]

There are a few possibilities here. The cartridge chips do eventually
fail after being reset numerous times.

They should not be reset. You should trot down to Costco and genuine
Epson products.

 

[measekite]

Do not believe the Canon user below who has no problems with Epson and
does not use NON EPSON INK.

 

[phreak]

Ah, owning one Canon printer makes you an expert on Epsons now too?????

 

[Arthur Entlich]

Hi Jan,

Top of the year to you as well.

I was originally of the opinion the chips used by Epson on the
cartridges were pretty much rewritable an "unlimited" number of times,
but apparently, based upon the feedback I am getting, this isn't quite
so. I don't have any specific numbers, and it may very well depend upon
how they are rewritten to. Perhaps some chip "resetters" are harder on
the chip than others, based upon the resetter circuitry and the voltages
used.

It would difficult to make any meaningful statements should the
consideration be the type of resetter involved, since there are dozens
or more available.

Also, the continual rewrite type may be a different or more vigorous
technology than the one on Epson's own chips. I haven't seen anything
published about this as of yet.

Art