Yesterday have changed a yellow ink cartridge into my printer as it the one before emptied. Now this morning the yellow was firing but after a meter printing it stopped. done a clean and again stopped while printing. Now I'm thinking its the new ink. Date produced is 2006.05.25. Is this why?
that ink is not too old. if your previous ink cartridge ran out during printing you may have a lot of air in the tubes. you'll have to keep flushing it out until it the air is all gone. that's just my feeling based on using various printers, not based on any special technical knowledge of the seiko.
check there is ink in the new cartridge, which there should be! never known a batch of ink to cause this, more a problem which the head and/or ink lines with issues such as an air leak or just simply block nozzles on a dirty jet plate. make sure the wiping station is working ok and there's fluid on the sponge and the wiper is still well formed.
I have changed it to a new cartridge now and worked fine. Shall I swap it again? if the reason is air I might solve that. But is the ink ok. The manual says I must use it in a 1 years time and it expired with 2 to 3 months!
And if I change it, will the other good full cartridge be damaged until I reinstall it? I normally change them every 3 to 4 months.
i'd be curious to know if the problem comes back when you put the first in back in. then you would have a defective ink cartridge. never seen that myself. i usually keep my old cartridges (with under 10% ink left) on the shelf "in case of emergency." i've never had a problem with putting old ink back in, although the manual recommends leaving it in until it's used up.
in 3 years I never removed any ink cartridges unless printer gives me a display warning to change. This is my 1st time that I removed a cartridge practically full cause I thought the ink was no good - expired -1yr2months from production.
So, can anyone suggest me what to do? should I waste that ink? or can I use it?
Heres why, You have an ink reservior (capri-sun bags) that holds a good amount of ink. This should never empty. You get the low ink message because this gets low. So when you change an ink cartridge you are still using the old ink for a while.
There are many places for air to get into your line. If you run out of ink in a catridge then yes possible some air could get in there, but you should never run out of ink in the ink reservior.
I might have missed a pump but regardless you see there are many places to get air in your lines.
I have takes the tubes from the pump to the ink resevoir off and had tons of air in there and it has given me no problems.
All I am saying is that if you just swapped out your ink catridge and print you are still using the ink that was in the ink reservoir for a while before you even get the new stuff. So if it happened RIGHT after you replaced the catridge then maybe you jammed it in wrong or something else happened...
about 2 months have passed and I still havent changed it with that yellow ink. I'm worrying that it might damage the head as it expired with many months now.
