I have an Epson C80 inkjet printer. I bought it because it takes separate cyan, magenta, yellow and black cartridges. That way — I thought — if one of the colours went out, I would only have to change the colour in question.
I installed my fourth set of colour cartridges today. Every time I have replaced them, all the colours have run out at once. Don’t you find that strange? Am I the perfectly average printer user who uses exactly the colour balance that Epson came up with in the lab to ensure identical cartridge life? I don’t think so.
Rather, it wouldn’t surprise me that the printer was set to ask for all the colour cartridges to be replaced when one of them was empty. A couple of them did seem quite heavy, as if there was still some ink in them. Hmm.
But since the cartridges died printing out my Canadian Business Number registration, I can expense future consumables against my tax …
I’ve used up black before the colors. But the two times I’ve replace the colors they have all run out. The levels were not all exactly at the bottom but close enough to do it.
Gary
See Inkjet Fraud at http://www.inkjetfraud.com for some more info on this subject.
I only use 2 cartridges, the colors mix when one color runs out.