R3000 chip resetting question

[costadinos]

I'm looking to get an R3000 and a good CISS or refillable cartridge set to go with it, and I was hoping one of the R3000 users here could help clarify something:

Does the R3000 go through a mini priming cycle every time a cartridge's ink level is reset (like the R2000 and other models with moving cartridges), thereby wasting some ink?
Also, from what I understand, pretty much all chips currently on the market are not auto reset and have to be reset individually, unlike CIS systems for other printers, for which there is a chip block allowing all the colours to be reset simultaneously.

Is there a system that allows all the colours to be reset at the same time, even though some haven't reached the "empty" level yet?

 

[pharmacist]

Hi Costadinos,

My experience is that resetting does not force a cleaning cycle at all, provided you shutdown the machine, refill the cartridges and reset and turn the machine on. This was with my previous Epson R3000, which I have sold in favour of the Epson 1500W (as I already have a very good K3 machine: Epson Pro 3880).

So: no cleaning cycle when you reset the machine, unless you remove a cartridge from a working machine and put it back: then it will execute a cleaning cycle. So shutdown the printer, refill and reset, put the cartridges back and you will not have a cleaning cycle.

 

[jtoolman]

What about when you then send a print job to it? Does it still not do a purge?
I know that with the PRO 3800 and RPO 3880 there is no ink purge of any sort whether you replace carts with the printer on or off. I thought the R3000 with its similar externally mounted carts ( Not directly on the print head carriage ) it would behave in the same manner. Guess not.

Joe