Stefan, I feel your "Pain". This morning I jamed up my nice new CD
printer big time. I checked and re-checked to make sure the PCB
would go through with the tray and such. It didn't, everything
jammed up. In total frustration and disgust, I turned it off,
walked away from it and went back to the finer things in life -
programming.
I will deal with the printer when I have a very level head cause if
I don't, it will end up under the tires of my truck :-(
--- In
Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Stefan Trethan"
<stefan_trethan@...> wrote:
>
> Things are going badly with this printer.
>
> After very good success with cleaning yesterday i wanted to try on
PCB
> today.
> Nozzle check is very bad.
> I dunno what happened.
>
>
> But the chip thing is criminal. A single cleaning cycle will take
out a
> quarter of the cartridge! That's ridiculous!
> I dunno how i can possibly work with this sh∗∗. I mean i need to
pull the
> carts to reset, but that will require cleaning to get the air out,
this in
> turn takes most of the ink count away. I'm really fed up with
that
> nonsensical chip crap.
>
> I noticed the chip contacts seem to go through only a few traces
on one
> side of the flexible ribbon cable to the head. I think it would
be
> possible to cut this from the rest of the cable and mount the
chips
> separately in a stationary setup. This would allow me to reset
them
> without pulling the carts.
>
> Any ideas if it would be possible to connect a micro that listens
for the
> readout command and says "100% you stupid a∗∗" each time it is
asked?
> There is just _NO WAY_ i'm paying $60 for a set of auto reset
chips,
> that's ridiculous.
>
> As good as things looked yesterday, i wish i hadn't touched the
printer
> today, it's really killing my mood when everything goes wrong. I
need to
> sort the bloody chips before i can find out why it isn't printing.
>
>
> ST
>