Replacing Epson cartridge before its run out of ink.

I need to fit a cleaning cartridge in my Epson 880 printer, but cannot
move the existing ink cartridges to the cartridge change position. It
seems this cannot happen until the "empty cartridge light" comes on. Is
there a way of overiding this?

AL

Look underneath the tray that holds the ink carts and you should see a small
plastic pin which stops the tray being pushed into the parking position.
Gently push this pin to one side using a cocktail stick or tooth pick and
you should then be able to pull the tray into the parking position.

BTW you can do this with the printer switched off

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I need to fit a cleaning cartridge in my Epson 880 printer, but cannot
move the existing ink cartridges to the cartridge change position. It
seems this cannot happen until the "empty cartridge light" comes on. Is
there a way of overiding this?

AL

Hold the paper infeed button on the 880 for about 5 seconds. Change your
cartridge and push the paper infeed button again. At that point you can also
push the color.black ink button to get the same effect of moving the head
back to the right and do a head clean as well.

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Jan Alter

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"ob2u" wrote in message
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Look underneath the tray that holds the ink carts and you should see a
small plastic pin which stops the tray being pushed into the parking
position. Gently push this pin to one side using a cocktail stick or tooth
pick and you should then be able to pull the tray into the parking
position.

BTW you can do this with the printer switched off

Scratch my back to reply via email

Regards oB2u

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I need to fit a cleaning cartridge in my Epson 880 printer, but cannot
move the existing ink cartridges to the cartridge change position. It
seems this cannot happen until the "empty cartridge light" comes on. Is
there a way of overiding this?

AL

Yes. It is usually mentioned in the instruction manual under "replacing
an outdated ink cartridge" (in this case, page 26)...

Press the load/eject button and hold for about 3 seconds until the print
head moves left and the power light begins flashing. Pull up the
cartridge clamp, lift cartridge out of printer and dispose. Install new
cartridge. Press down on ink clamp. Press load/eject again and close
printer cover.
....

Art


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I need to fit a cleaning cartridge in my Epson 880 printer, but cannot
move the existing ink cartridges to the cartridge change position. It
seems this cannot happen until the "empty cartridge light" comes on.
Is there a way of overiding this?

AL