Ashley 288 Posted June 23, 2011 Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 Over last few days when trying to print things I will get the main "headlines", titles. web and email addresses all come out perfect but no text in between such! (whether a coincidence or not text should be black, rest is blue or green (correct) and photos in colour print, printer is epson stylus R300 any ideas? (ink etc all new and was printing with such) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted June 23, 2011 Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 When you print do you do a "Print preview" first ? It might help you if you do that as it could tell you what's wrong. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,467 Posted June 23, 2011 Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 Also, somewhere within the controls of your printer you should be able to print a test page, which will show if all the colours and other functions are working correctly Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted June 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 Thanks for advice, had sorted it by then though, I said new inks? true, and all showing nearly full but black one blocked or something, felt same weight as others? swopped it and back working ok Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted June 24, 2011 Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 In fill my own now, Messy job but they last a lot longer than Branded ones that are shop brought. I have an old printer that does not need chip resetting.Epson 670 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
STANLEY1706 2 Posted July 2, 2011 Report Share Posted July 2, 2011 Use this utility to keep your Epson R300 (or any other Epson) runnining smoothly,my R300 is 5years old now uses bulk feed ink system and never let me down.... http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted July 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 Use this utility to keep your Epson R300 (or any other Epson) runnining smoothly,my R300 is 5years old now uses bulk feed ink system and never let me down.... http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml Will it cure vertical lines about quarter of an inch apart on photos, these show up esp on darker areas Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 Print head problem or printer quality that Ash? Clean the heads with a utility program Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted July 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 utility program? is that like a spray windolene, etc, or do I use toothbrush and say brasso? lol lost me again, afraid no idea re computer programmes etc Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 If you find the printer in your control panel, right click on it. Should give you options to do a test print and head clean. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 Stanleys post is interesting. I have two Epson printers, one before the days of chips The other an SX200. I am now looking at 'bulk feed ink system' for that due to reading Stans post. They can be bought very cheaply from eBay. However I am a bit concerned over the amount of stick those pipes get with printer use. Surely they will soon break? Anyone else use this type of system? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 I have a bulk feed system on an epson printer, the small pipes are held on to the printer with a small clip, that is fixed with a sticky pad, these soon fell off. I basically taped the pipes around a part of the printer and it has been fine since, you have to get the pipes correct as they move along with the print head, mine has been in use for about 3 years with no problems, and the ink is very cheap. I got mine from ebay. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 Those lines are caused by blocked print head nozzles Ashley, sometimes cleaning doesn't work, I have a Kodak with blocked cleaning nozzles, tries everything, including cleaning fluid and Windex injected via a syringe onto the inkpads . Final solution is to replace the printhead assembly, I have a new one standing by. then I'll leave the printhead assembly in a "Windex bath" to see if it will soften the old ink. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 I think the worse thing you can do to a printer is not use it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 It is with modern printers. I haven't printed anything for months, yet in the old dot matrix days I was printing stuff daily. I've come to the conclusion, separate print heads are a major drawback and much preferred the cartridge with the printhead combined. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 Heres a Forum for printer help, with just about one member by the looks of it, how unusual? http://printing.cushtydeals.com/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 He'd have been better if he'd started a website devoted to printers rather than a forum site. There are plenty of good free site hosts, many these days ad free too. One I'd recommend is 110mb.com....They only allow 110mb of space now, when I registered it was 110mb's but they took it to 5gb's!! Was bought out and now only allow 110mb's free. Old clients like myself still have 5 gigs free, but have to maintain their sites or lose the space. I only have about 10% space used at present. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 Not sure what were running at the moment? The Forum database is about 80mb without any pick or site content. do 110 do MySql & PHP? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 Yep they do, when they announced they were only allowing 110mb's I did some searching just in case, and found many site hosts have upped their free hosting for websites to 500mb plus. My eventual material will be well over 2 gigs, so I'm safe at the moment. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted July 5, 2011 Report Share Posted July 5, 2011 I bought a Kodak all in one printer when I bought this PC in August last year, I hadn't printed much but got the message "Low colour / low black ink, replace cartridges now" in around October, I imagined that they came with just a small supply to start with so I dutifully got in touch and purchased said new cartridges replacing the colour one immediately saving the black till it ran out. Even though every time i came to print a document it told me that the black ink was low I continued and ignored it as it printed fine till it eventually wouldn't print a document I wanted last Friday , about 300 pages after it told me it was 'empty' !!!!!!!! The colour one is fine and dandy still by the way. So just as a cautionary tale , take no notice of low ink warnings till it's definitely 'gone' and save yourself a fortune . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 5, 2011 Report Share Posted July 5, 2011 I have recently started filling my own cartridges, since then they have lasted for hundreds of printed pages. There can hardly be any ink even in Genuine makers cartridges. I was going to buy a cartridge chip resetter from eBay but I think know the Continuous ink systems may already include the self restting chipped cartridges? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted July 5, 2011 Report Share Posted July 5, 2011 I don't know if you can refill these Kodak ones , there doesn't seem to be any way in. When I ordered ink for the old printer the "Ink Club" always wanted the old ones back (They even sent a prepaid envelope for them) as they could refil them and pass on the savings. I bought these direct from Kodak themselves as 'Ink Club' don't do them yet . I hope they start to soon as there is quite a saving. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted July 5, 2011 Report Share Posted July 5, 2011 World of wierd coincidence again !! I've just had an email from 7 day shop offering me Kodak ink cartridges (The right ones for my printer) for 14 quid !!! I'll have some of that thank you very much ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 5, 2011 Report Share Posted July 5, 2011 From 7DS mine were 99p ea. One of the ink kits that I have have a finger drill for making a hole. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted July 5, 2011 Report Share Posted July 5, 2011 Yep Ian, you can fill Kodak cartridges, do a search for Kodak cartridge refill kits. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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