"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
Lit up my Epson 3000 for the first time in 6 yrs...been setting on my desk in my office all this time. Controlled enviorment and never touched. Loaded ink carts today and went to run a test page not expecting much and all that printed was the Cyan...so ok..figured id run a few utility test..head cleaning and what not...still only Cyan prints...so I DL'ed the SSC Service Utility suggested to me on the boards here and that did ZERO to it...so I'm running print test and head cleaning test and nozzel test over and over and still only Cyan prints...I did read that i can clean the heads with a qtip and windex but no idea how to get to the heads without taking the whole thing apart.So does anyone have any suggestions? THe Magenta and Black are brand new carts..the cyan and yellow were unopened new in plastic wrapper out the box but 6 yrs old.....yet the cyan is printing perfectly.My OTHER issue is after I loaded the drivers for Epson 3000 I then loaded my FastRip....but I realized I need a dongle for it...i have the plastic container the dongle came in with the serial number on it...but no dongle!..This was over 6 yrs ago when I purchased FastFilms and FastRip..I have NO IDEA what ever happened ot the dongle....and the way I understand it is I cant run fastrip without that usb dongle...I emailed Scott Fresner about what to do but in the process of writing the email i noticed on the container it clearly states no repelacements can be purchased is lost or stolen.....i emailed him anyway.It looks like im screwed all around in the printer department....unless i purchase yet another printer and a rip program.so if anyone has a suggestion for either topic I would greatly appreciate it.
got it working....took a lot of head cleans and did the "ammonia windex on caps then slide print head over caps and let sit for over night" routine...did that twice......now printing fine...thanks for the ideas everyone!Now I need to find that freaking FastRip dongle!...its been 6.5 yrs since i removed it from the back of my desktop pc....it HAS to be in my house somewhere!
Ha, fresener won't help you, he will accuse you of stealing it. I've seen this one before on the old, old boards...several times.
Quote from: mk162 on January 04, 2012, 10:36:02 AMHa, fresener won't help you, he will accuse you of stealing it. I've seen this one before on the old, old boards...several times.I suspect that with proof of ownership, that would not be the case.Perhaps he is being a little paranoid as who in this industry would ever use a copy or bootleg version of software?
Quote from: Frog on January 04, 2012, 11:06:53 AMQuote from: mk162 on January 04, 2012, 10:36:02 AMHa, fresener won't help you, he will accuse you of stealing it. I've seen this one before on the old, old boards...several times.I suspect that with proof of ownership, that would not be the case.Perhaps he is being a little paranoid as who in this industry would ever use a copy or bootleg version of software? actually i was in emails with Mr. Scott...I have all proof of ownership of FastRip 7.0 ..serial numbers for software and dongle...(I even have Fastfilms)...I have all the original packaging it came in and all serial numbers were verified on Mr. Scott's end..and he said basically FastRip is useless without the dongle and unless I find it im out of luck...but he did say I can upgrade to T-Rip with $200 discount off regular price....I told him I need to generate some biz first...I've only had one job since i got up and running again and that job was last month. For now I will just let someone else print out my film for me until I generate some income and can reinvestSo what im getting at Mr. Scott was very nice and helpful and even responded to me on New Years day