Cartridge Error

Recently I made a number of prints for an exhibit at a local gallery. I've been making several prints a week for clients, but these are the first prints of my own work I've made in some months.

My LLK has been at 1% for a long time. I think I’ve swapped in a new LLK half a dozen times for cleanings. And lately, LLK has shown nozzle-check issues every time I start up the machine. Setting up for these latest prints was no exception; about half of LLK was missing. I swapped in a new LLK cartridge, did a powerful cleaning of the Y/LLK pair (had to swap Y, too), and then had a good nozzle check. I swapped back in the old Y and LLK. I then inserted the sheet for the new print, and that’s when the printer’s LCD showed “cartridge error”, with a flashing X over LLK. OK, the thing was really close to empty, so rather than mess around “reseating” and such, I just replaced it with the newer one. No problems since. I made another print later, and had no problems.

In a way this error makes sense, but it’s the first time I’ve ever seen it, and have replaced many cartridges when they reported empty, with no error messages.

Just another oddity from this odd machine.

  --Jay