Its the “Paperless Office,” not the paperless home. Because if you have to go to an office to discuss things they’ll want to see paper not their own generated digital record. The burden of printing has just been moved to the consumer.
Which means big boxes under the tree...
How much is too much?
After spending a couple days, many cartridge swaps between refillable and OEM, many printer purge cycles, ..., I’ve moved to manually (at this point) printing a “purge sheet” every other day. Is this too much for my Epsons or am I In the world of “if it works don’t knock it?”
dwolf: I don’t know where you are but some of the Epson workforce printers may do what you describe. See if Precision Colors or other vendors have kits for the model that interests you.
I run a 3620 and a 7210 with Precision Colors stuff.
Suffering the same problem. I may have gotten past it by printing several purge sheets like the CMYK one from https://www.inksupply.com/purging.cfm
Time will tell...
I have a WF-7210 loaded with Precision Colors durabrite replacement ink and it does, imho, well enough with custom profiles on matte paper; in fact, I prefer PC inks over OEM. (Could be the profile, could be the inks.) As has been noted, the workforce printers don’t do well in photo printing on...
Are you turning your printer off between print sessions? Most printers will do some sort of cleaning cycle when turned on. And even if they are “off” a timer keeps ticking and if there is a time based cleaning it will still happen.
I’m using Precision Colors PCDB pigment inks in my 7210 quite happily. I find them to be, to me, better color wise than the OEM inks: The OEM black seemed a bit brown, and if left to its own devices the photos printed seemed to have a cyan-ish hue.
I am printing on matte paper.
So PCDB...
That is what mine claim to do, but the printer only recognizes them as full after it thinks they're empty. I've not found a way to force them to full otherwise, but it's OK as I tend to refill them before they are "empty."
1) If you're refilling why not refill all the carts when one is declared empty? That way you'll most likely never run out of ink.
2) I'm pretty sure the workforce printers don't know how much ink is in a cartridge; the printer "knows" how much it is using and bases the remaining volume on...