R1800 conectivity woes! continued

[Bazz8]

Never one to give up easily on any fix up I got to a point with the r1800 that a trip to the epson service centre for a Quote to repair the beast!!
Well good thing I was driving and sitting down diagnosis overheated printhead Price to repair $900 AU

So spare arts as i have another R1800 which is perfect, the other was going to become a Mono printer
so to the hardware experienced out there as I also have a R800 running on a Rihac Ciss system and working perfectly well.

Q1. Is the r800 head compatiable with the r1800 and if so what adjustments are required to change over to the r1800

I have the workshop manual and the epson adjustment program ( although it looks double dutch to me)
this is the last roll of the dice and i do not want to end up stuffing my r800 to get this mongrel thing working
( early in the piece I did get the printer to workfor 2 pages by changing over the heads and the printed sheet
was perfect on page 1 then when i printed page 2 the print faded to zerO by half way through.
According to the manual you must key in the head no???

THANKS FOR ANY HELP
Bazz8

 

[Bazz8]

No one knows

 

[websnail]

I'd take a look at this yahoo group:
EPSON_Printers@yahoogroups.com

... and post your question up there as there's considerable old world experience on there compared to here, especially when it comes to the higher end A4/A3 Epson printers like the R800/R1800.

Short answer from me though is that I honestly don't know...

 

[Bazz8]

Thanks Websnail
When i got the price to replace the head at $900 au( goldplated I know)
I have run a R800 for 7 yrs probably averaged out to running 100 sheets per yr.
When I got the brainwaveto buy a printer for $19.75 parts only +$140 postage to STH.Australia
the pain is i got it to work every colour except red,a retailer reckons the r800 head is identical so i
took the head out of the r800 and it printed 1 sheet but that was all
I have joined the suggested group and wil give them a try
thanks
Bazz8