Epson 1400 where's the ink?

[sweetts]

Hey anybody have an issue with an epson 1400 not seeing the ink cartridges?

[Itsa Little CrOoked]

Nope.

Look at your cart and see if the chip is disloged. I've had that happen.

Beyond that....dunno.

[screenxpress]

I think my first response was off-target

I did some more surfing and I'm thinking perhaps you're not using Epson carts and they are not being recognized.

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This was someone else's post about a similar problem - not recognizing the cart - but for CISS.  Are you using CISS?

    Hi. it's a little bit late To try maybe, but who have an issue with ciss not recognizing can try my solution. First of all remove the ciss while the Printer is off. Than restart Printer without any cartridges inserted. Reinstall ciss again and ciss will recognized. The point is never remove or change cartridges while Printer is offline. Hope this will help

[blue moon]

Ours just overnight lost all the cartridges. I found something about there being a date trigger of some sort to hinder the compatibles. Never got to the bottom of it, just took the printer off the shelf and threw in the back. It's still there if you want it.

Pierre

[Itsa Little CrOoked]

Ours just overnight lost all the cartridges. I found something about there being a date trigger of some sort to hinder the compatibles. Never got to the bottom of it, just took the printer off the shelf and threw in the back. It's still there if you want it.

Pierre

Reading this prompted me to panic. It's often the only thing I can figure out to do.

I just went down and printed a film sample on my 1400. All was well. Then I shut off the power and back on. Still Okay.

WHEW!

I just got my 4800 via UPS yesterday, but haven't set it up yet.

I'd be burning the midnight oil to set up that beast, if my 1400 went Tango Uniform because of some danged Epson Death Angel line of code. Greedy ingrates anyhow!.... I buy your danged priners. I'm up to double figures by now.

Leave me alone, Epson!... <End childish, self absorbed rant>

Hopefully my 4800 will fire up and run, and my spare new in box 1400 WAAAAY high up on the shelf won't be dead before I ener need to press it into service.

[blue moon]

Ours just overnight lost all the cartridges. I found something about there being a date trigger of some sort to hinder the compatibles. Never got to the bottom of it, just took the printer off the shelf and threw in the back. It's still there if you want it.

Pierre

Reading this prompted me to panic. It's often the only thing I can figure out to do.

I just went down and printed a film sample on my 1400. All was well. Then I shut off the power and back on. Still Okay.

WHEW!

I just got my 4800 via UPS yesterday, but haven't set it up yet.

I'd be burning the midnight oil to set up that beast, if my 1400 went Tango Uniform because of some danged Epson Death Angel line of code. Greedy ingrates anyhow!.... I buy your danged priners. I'm up to double figures by now.

Leave me alone, Epson!... <End childish, self absorbed rant>

Hopefully my 4800 will fire up and run, and my spare new in box 1400 WAAAAY high up on the shelf won't be dead before I ener need to press it into service.

sorry, this happened few years back. I just realized that it reads like it happened recently which is obviously not the case.

pierre

[sweetts]

Just happened to me, I picked up a 7610 and love it. I was going to try to hack the 1400 in my spare time.

[Itsa Little CrOoked]

@ Pierre:  Got it, thanks. I often write stuff that I think is clear too, then come back and read it later, and realize it wasn't.  I might PM you later about the 4800's. (You know stuff I don't.)  Not today, not this week.

@ Roger:  I never did really ask, is your confused 1400 running a CISS?  I may have some extra NON CISS carts I could send you to try out. That might fix it. Its a long shot....

I truly like my 1400 and with the Ditto multi-sheet feeder, it's been a workhorse for several years. I use the all-black setup, refillable individual OEM sized carts from Cobra Ink Systems, and I also use his black ink. I plan to keep mine locked, loaded and ready to fire, even when I get my 4800 operational...at least in the beginning. I DON"T like 13 inch wide restriction, and MANY little bits of wasted films from 13x19 sheets.. Let me know if you want to try out some carts.

Stan

[Frog]

I'd like to think that companies like Cobra have solved the non OEM date trigger issue

[blue moon]

@ Pierre:  Got it, thanks. I often write stuff that I think is clear too, then come back and read it later, and realize it wasn't.  I might PM you later about the 4800's. (You know stuff I don't.)  Not today, not this week.

@ Roger:  I never did really ask, is your confused 1400 running a CISS?  I may have some extra NON CISS carts I could send you to try out. That might fix it. Its a long shot....

I truly like my 1400 and with the Ditto multi-sheet feeder, it's been a workhorse for several years. I use the all-black setup, refillable individual OEM sized carts from Cobra Ink Systems, and I also use his black ink. I plan to keep mine locked, loaded and ready to fire, even when I get my 4800 operational...at least in the beginning. I DON"T like 13 inch wide restriction, and MANY little bits of wasted films from 13x19 sheets.. Let me know if you want to try out some carts.

Stan

you'll love the 4800! get the rolls from Nazdar and use the Chromaline's AccuInk. your films will print faster, be darker and you will not have to feed anything. Big time convenience!

pierre

[sweetts]

I was using a cis then put in Epson carts and still nothing

[sweetts]

Anyone ever hack into the firmware

[CSPGarrett]

Anyone ever hack into the firmware

Our DTG machines are based on a larger model, what error code are you getting from it?  This way we can look it up.

Also, how old is the printer?  If it reached the end of it's life cycle you will need the drive software to reset it to factory settings (this has happened to our DTG machines and it will stop firing during a print run, we reset and it is back up and running).

Also, make sure your head doesn't dry out, this can happen very fast and the only way from there to get it working again is super nozzle cleaner.

[Itsa Little CrOoked]

What error do you see? Mine had a lights flashing fit a couple weeks ago. Ir turned out to need a waste pad reset.

I downloaded a utility to reset the counter. I could email it to you. ...if you want to try it.

I've never hacked into the firmware.

[sweetts]

What error do you see? Mine had a lights flashing fit a couple weeks ago. Ir turned out to need a waste pad reset.

I downloaded a utility to reset the counter. I could email it to you. ...if you want to try it.

I've never hacked into the firmware.

sure I'll try it sweet-ts@att.net