Colors are spot on, it costs nothing to print, no mods required so your wty stays intact.Īs to the differences, 837 has a built-in duplexer (make sure to use thicker paper if you ever do print duplex docs, ink makes paper wet), LCD screen is prettier, IMO, printer is slightly bigger and that's about it.Ī word of wisdom (from the interwebs): DONT download the latest epson SW - it might flash latest firmware to the printer, that might disable your CIS cartridges. In other words, no mods of any sorts to the printer are required.Ĭannot recommend this setup (837 + CIS) to recreational (family/travel pics) crowd. So you dont really have to trim any plastic in order not to have the CIS tubes pinched. A smallish piece of soft rubber stuck in there make the printer think the cover is closed. Kudos to 837 - this one has a micro-switch in a small cavity above the cartridge pocket. The ink was angrily sucked into the print head lines - 1 or 2 lines at a time. Watched it closely as the system initialized for the first time. Arrived in no time flat and I connected the same CIS system to it. Ordered a $99 Artisan 837 refurb (1 year wty) from Epson. It was not a clogged head, but something else entirely. And thats after days of soaking in ammonia, iso alco, distilled water etc etc. Whatever I did, I could not get the ink lines to the print head to prime with ink. Before I contribute to the landfills, I'd like to see if I can rescue it. I paid under a $100 for the printer and it served me well. No color at all !Īny advice ? Am I dealing with a bad clog (all the colors though ? - that is unlikely ?) that requires more time or is it some other mul-function that somehow precludes the head from priming with ink ? When I take a paper towel path and apply it to the business end of the nozzles, I get bright patches of color to appear on the paper - as if the clog is gone, but still after reassembly the story woulld repeat itself - I can get half a page of decent looking print and then no ink would come out, I get blank pages again. So I've been soaking the biz end of the print head in a smallish tray filled with may be 1/8" of distilled water/ammonia/iso alcohol solution. It seems to be one way thing (a valve), BTW - I can easily force air in, but trying to suck it out dont work. With print line ribbon detached, I could easily move air through the line by using a syringe on the "nipples" that the ink tanks attach to. A whole lotta pressure escaped out - clearly the printer was trying to prime the lines with ink but it wasnt going through. Plenty of paper towels, removed the print head from its carriage, carefully removed the 2 screws that hold the ink supply cables to the print head. Opened up the printer and discovered that the print lines - the thin flex tubes in the ribbon cable assembly to the print head were empty of ink. Toward the end, nothing at all would show up ! The more cleaning cycles I ran the worse the nozzle check pattern became. Plenty of ink in the CIS.Īnd this is where it starts to get weird. Ran a cleaning cycle, printed out the check pattern. Printed out may be 60 of 4圆 and toward the end of the batch some banding became prominent. I have a newspaper ad page resting in the scanner so every couple of weeks I run a color copy of it, to prevent the ink from drying up. The rest of time I scan some documents, print an occasional color page or two. It gets its workout when relatives come to visit and I print the photographs. ![]() ![]() The 4圆 come out faster than a speeding bullet and many hundreds were printed out over its lifetime, using a CIS. Love this all-in-one, had it for a couple of years and it's been true workhorse.
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