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Brother all in one says out of ink but there is ink printer scanner copier fax say
In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:18:18 -0400, Paul
wrote: micky wrote: I found some webpages that remind me of what I used to know If you know how Brother decides that a cartridge is necessary, or you know aobut this particular model, MFC-J625dw that would be great, but otherwise, I should read the webpages first and I apologize for bothering you all. Well, I didn't mind spending money on ink, if it would eventually work. It was just that the two colors it said had no ink seemed to have ink in the cartridge. But I bought new cartridges and it's working now. The first thing it did was tell me the third color was low. One Amazon reviewer says to tip the printer at 90 degrees for a few moments, so the ink covers the LED sensor. First I bought OEM magenta, OEM When that got rid of the magenta warning and I knew ink was really the problem, . I bought compatible cyan. The cyan cartridge didn't even have the window that showed the ink in all the oem cartridges. The window isnt' there and the room in back of the window is not there. It's like one house has a porch and the other house has no porch at all. Hard to believe, in an era of chipped cartridges, someone is still doing this. Using LEDs to sense ink. So there must be some other way that it decides it's out of ink maybe a chip after all. Couldn't install much of the software, which took an hour to download, including the OCR, unless the printer was plugged in. They don't want everyone to have it. Paul Changed alt.periphs.printers to comp.periphs.printers and things should work better now. I kept looking at the s at the end of periph and thinking I had that wrong. |
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Brother all in one says out of ink but there is inkprinter scanner copier fax say
micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:18:18 -0400, Paul wrote: micky wrote: I found some webpages that remind me of what I used to know If you know how Brother decides that a cartridge is necessary, or you know aobut this particular model, MFC-J625dw that would be great, but otherwise, I should read the webpages first and I apologize for bothering you all. Well, I didn't mind spending money on ink, if it would eventually work. It was just that the two colors it said had no ink seemed to have ink in the cartridge. But I bought new cartridges and it's working now. The first thing it did was tell me the third color was low. One Amazon reviewer says to tip the printer at 90 degrees for a few moments, so the ink covers the LED sensor. First I bought OEM magenta, OEM When that got rid of the magenta warning and I knew ink was really the problem, . I bought compatible cyan. The cyan cartridge didn't even have the window that showed the ink in all the oem cartridges. The window isnt' there and the room in back of the window is not there. It's like one house has a porch and the other house has no porch at all. Hard to believe, in an era of chipped cartridges, someone is still doing this. Using LEDs to sense ink. So there must be some other way that it decides it's out of ink maybe a chip after all. Couldn't install much of the software, which took an hour to download, including the OCR, unless the printer was plugged in. They don't want everyone to have it. Paul Changed alt.periphs.printers to comp.periphs.printers and things should work better now. I kept looking at the s at the end of periph and thinking I had that wrong. Here back to school special on Brother MFC-J475DW for 59.00. Brother is very finicky about inks. They do too many cleaning cycles wasting ink. You can empty ink cartridges without printing a single page. Power off when not in use. |
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Brother all in one says out of ink but there is ink printer scanner copier fax say
In message , Tony Hwang
writes: micky wrote: In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:18:18 -0400, Paul wrote: [] The cyan cartridge didn't even have the window that showed the ink in all the oem cartridges. The window isnt' there and the room in back of the window is not there. It's like one house has a porch and the other house has no porch at all. Hard to believe, in an era of chipped cartridges, someone is still doing this. Using LEDs to sense ink. I don't see why: seems to me a perfectly sensible way of doing it, and IMO _far_ preferable to the chip method. The chip method is often inaccurate, and must add to the cost of the cartridges - as well as giving the manufacturers an at least theoretical, in countries where DMCA is valid, monopoly, so they can charge what they like. [] Here back to school special on Brother MFC-J475DW for 59.00. Brother is very finicky about inks. They do too many cleaning cycles wasting ink. You can empty ink cartridges without printing a single page. Power off when not in use. Good advice for virtually all makes, as they all do it. Though print something occasionally - whether once a week or once a month or other period different people have different ideas of (probably varies with model, temperature, and humidity) to stop things drying up and thus blocking. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf I'd be a middle-class hero if I had the time, but I've got to go to Waitrose first. - Tim Vine, RT 2014/2/15-21 |
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Brother all in one says out of ink but there is ink printer scanner copier fax say
In comp.periphs.printers, on Sun, 9 Aug 2015 11:28:37 +0100, "J. P.
Gilliver (John)" wrote: In message , Tony Hwang writes: micky wrote: In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:18:18 -0400, Paul wrote: [] The cyan cartridge didn't even have the window that showed the ink in all the oem cartridges. The window isnt' there and the room in back of the window is not there. It's like one house has a porch and the other house has no porch at all. Hard to believe, in an era of chipped cartridges, someone is still doing this. Using LEDs to sense ink. I don't see why: seems to me a perfectly sensible way of doing it, and IMO _far_ preferable to the chip method. The chip method is often inaccurate, and must add to the cost of the cartridges - as well as giving the manufacturers an at least theoretical, in countries where DMCA is valid, monopoly, so they can charge what they like. [] Here back to school special on Brother MFC-J475DW for 59.00. Brother is very finicky about inks. They do too many cleaning cycles wasting ink. You can empty ink cartridges without printing a single page. Power off when not in use. The manual says it cleans the heads periodically even when it's off. Would have to unplug it. Their idea is that someone doesn't have to remember to print something every two months. He can go for a year without printing anything and the heads won't be clogged, though the cartridges may be empty! Good advice for virtually all makes, as they all do it. Though print something occasionally - whether once a week or once a month or other period different people have different ideas of (probably varies with model, temperature, and humidity) to stop things drying up and thus blocking. |
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Brother all in one says out of ink but there is ink printer scanner copier fax say
In message , micky
writes: In comp.periphs.printers, on Sun, 9 Aug 2015 11:28:37 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: In message , Tony Hwang writes: [] Here back to school special on Brother MFC-J475DW for 59.00. Brother is very finicky about inks. They do too many cleaning cycles wasting ink. You can empty ink cartridges without printing a single page. Power off when not in use. The manual says it cleans the heads periodically even when it's off. Yes, a lot of them do. About once a day, I think, for many makes/models. Would have to unplug it. Their idea is that someone doesn't have to remember to print something every two months. He can go for a year without printing anything and the heads won't be clogged, though the cartridges may be empty! Well, that therefore only postpones the clogging - if it empties the cartridges with its cleaning, then after they are empty, the clogging will still occur! Good advice for virtually all makes, as they all do it. Though print something occasionally - whether once a week or once a month or other period different people have different ideas of (probably varies with model, temperature, and humidity) to stop things drying up and thus blocking. (And by "something" we mean something including solid blocks of each colour ink, not just some text, of course.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf I think we'd all qualify for Heaven - even Richard Dawkins, if only to severely p*ss him off. Imagine? An eternity of knowing you were wrong. - Nick Odell, in UMRA 2011-5-22 |
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