Epson 4800 refillable ink carts
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:51 pm
Hey everyone.
We've been set up with an Epson Stylus Pro 4800 for about two months now. It's using 17" roll film and working beautifully. We finally hit the end of the main cartridge. So, I installed the refillable bulk ink system cartridge, filled it with dye based ink and continued to print films. About 15 films later it quit printing half way through an image. After a bit of inspection I saw the black ink line was pretty much empty. I did some research and thought it might just be air in the lines. I took the cover off the print head, unscrewed the black line and tried drawing the air out. There was too much air in the line so I thought working in reverse might work better. So I filled the syringe with ink and pushed it in the line. About two syringes later the line was pretty full. I reattached the line, ran a cleaning, and printed a film. I thought I had it fixed. Then about 10 films later it quit again. So here's where I sit. It's not an issue with the print head because its printing fine when it has ink. When I filled the line, it printed. But I don't think it's pulling ink in to the line from the cartridge. It printed until the line was empty and quit again. So, does anyone have any ideas on how to fix it? Something I'm missing when installing these type of systems? Thanks for reading my long winded posts.
Craig
We've been set up with an Epson Stylus Pro 4800 for about two months now. It's using 17" roll film and working beautifully. We finally hit the end of the main cartridge. So, I installed the refillable bulk ink system cartridge, filled it with dye based ink and continued to print films. About 15 films later it quit printing half way through an image. After a bit of inspection I saw the black ink line was pretty much empty. I did some research and thought it might just be air in the lines. I took the cover off the print head, unscrewed the black line and tried drawing the air out. There was too much air in the line so I thought working in reverse might work better. So I filled the syringe with ink and pushed it in the line. About two syringes later the line was pretty full. I reattached the line, ran a cleaning, and printed a film. I thought I had it fixed. Then about 10 films later it quit again. So here's where I sit. It's not an issue with the print head because its printing fine when it has ink. When I filled the line, it printed. But I don't think it's pulling ink in to the line from the cartridge. It printed until the line was empty and quit again. So, does anyone have any ideas on how to fix it? Something I'm missing when installing these type of systems? Thanks for reading my long winded posts.
Craig