Reset Carts / Airlock Problems

[JSR]

Is it just me or does everybody else have airlock problems.

I didn't often have issues with this on my Epson 1400s when I switched from the troublesome CISS but my cheaper B40W suffers from big airlock issues on one colour when I change the cartridges.

I use refills with one of my 1400s now, but I don't use it often because the tiny cartridges keep running out and life's too short to keep refilling them - particularly when you have to head clean. The smaller the cartridges are, the more frequently you take them out to refill and the higher the risk of an airlock. Also, the smaller they are, the higher the risk that youll run them dry and the more chance you have of introducing an air bubble. My B40W's been sitting idle for months because the cyan won't come through.

I think the primary issue is that the cartridges effectively sit on top of the print head. There so little space between the reservoir and the print head that it's too easy to introduce an air bubble and that's what causes the airlock. I don't think it's any surprise that printers with remote cartridges (that have lines filled with ink from the cartridge to the print head) don't suffer half as much as the Epsons seem to. That ink line effectively prevents any air bubble from reaching the print head.

This is all just IMHO, of course. If no one else experiences the trouble then clearly I'm just the unlucky one, but I only use my Epsons to print now when I absolutely have to.

[WorthDoingRight]

I only use my Epsons to print now when I absolutely have to.

So did you previously also print when you did not absolutely have to? rotflmao

[JSR]

So did you previously also print when you did not absolutely have to? rotflmao

:biggrin:

Previously I had no choice because I only had Epsons (because that's what the suppliers told us to use). Now I have a choice and my choice is to not use the Epsons unless I have to. I have five Epson printers here and I can count on one hand how many times I've used them this year (and that count would be for just one of them - two others haven't been used this year, and the remaining two haven't been used for over two years).

If I'd known what I know now, I would have saved myself £1200+ on printers alone. But I allowed myself to be led by the suppliers instead of working it out for myself. Silly me.