Thanks to all who responded to my question! Sat Aug 15 08:12:46 CDT 2009 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> The strategy I take when it comes to my R2400 and the flashing lights > is that when the warning starts flashing, I check the status and see > what the approximate state of all the tanks is. I start watching the > report of "the printer has enough ink to pring X number of prints like > the last one". I make sure I have a replacement tank handy for the one Interesting... My R2880 doesn't provide this type of diagnostics. > already flashing plus any others that look to be close ... if when it > stops printing, one or two others are flashing AND another one or two > look very close, I *might* change 'em all out as the purge and cycle > after installing a new cart will often take the ones that are *almost* > flashing and suck them near dry, which will waste more ink on the > purge and cycle when I replace those half an hour later. So, does the printer purge _all_ of them when you replace only one? I.e. it doesn't recognize which ones you've replaced, assuming it was done to all of them. Correct? Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

