[Leica] Printer problems

[John McMaster]

Odd, my 3880 worked fine after six months in storage and shipping...

john

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I have had similar experiences with all my printers, including the Epson R800 I have now. Unless you use them on an almost daily basis, the ink dries up and all sorts of nasty things happen. I have given up on home printing.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain

> On 02 Jun 2016, at 14:21, lluisripollphotography <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a printer EPSON STYLUS PHOTO R3000, I do not print every day, neither every week. When I’m going to print the first thing I do is cleaning the injectors, this time I saw that the Black doesn’t work, I’ve repeat the cleaning several times, maybe 4 or 5 without success.
> 
> Epson official service said me that it shall be replaced the “Ink supply unit”, and do a replenishment of ink, all this is estimated 350€, but if using compatibles ink the total amount can be reduced to 230€, the thing is that than there is no guarantee and that sometimes the compatible inks don’t work properly ….
> 
> Any experiences with some non expensive compatible inks? or similar issue?
> 
> I have to say that I was very happy with the printing quality of my printer, it has 3 black cartridge+matte and the range of grey tones was great!
> 
> Thank you very much
> Lluis
>