The part of the tube you have the picture is the place where waste Ink in passes. It's only waste Ink the comes out there. If you have Drawn ink from all and sure of ink in all printheads, make sure they are all well seated, with that I think you are good to go if the printer accept them.
Just got out of same issue with my z3200. For some colors that are not showing up now, if you are lucky and they are not fried you can get them recovered by refilling them. There are utube videos on YouTube. Watch the videos keenly and follow instructions. You can do it. I've done it severally.
Just got out of same issue with my z3200. For some colors that are not showing up now, if you are lucky and they are not fried you can get them recovered by refilling them. There are utube videos on YouTube. Watch the videos keenly and follow instructions. You can do it. I've done it severally.
Ok. At least your printer is set for printing. You will need a priming tool to move forward. A priming tool is just a needle and stringe You try and remove the sharp part of the needle. Use this to suck ink from the ink tube from where the printhead stays this will remove air from the tube. The...
You will need a priming tool to get air out of the ink tube of the particular color. A priming tool is a syringe and needle, a blunt needle of course. You can cut a sharp tip needle and try to maintain the hole so you can suck out Air with it.
You can get to the printhead this way. Start the printer and watch for the carriage to start moving, immediately it starts moving from the locked position, switch printer off from the back switch or the main supply.
OEM inks are the best, most especially when providing printing services. To get the ultimate for your customers using OEM photo papers along is the best as the inks are profiled with the papers.
If you are able to get your printer back to life that's a very big congratulations to you. As per quality, it is a general believe that third party inks can not meet the quality of OEM inks but I think we go for third party inks mainly because of the cost. As for ICC profile, if you have az3100...
That would be a new development, if you have the old system and it's working I won't bother myself on another set giving the cost. You could find the new cartridges and let's know how it goes. Anything is possible, technology is evolving.