Our house was flooded late May 2020. My R2880 was above the water level, not
harmed. Some packaged spare inks were underwater but presumably the packages
protected the cartridges. I boxed the whole kit in the original printer’s box,
it has since been on the shelf waiting to see if/when I construct a new
workstation. I wouldn’t mind sending you the whole package…
Stan
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> On Dec 26, 2024, at 11:12 AM, Igor PDML-StR <pdml...@komkon.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> This holiday season revealed to me the doom of my beloved Epson R2880.
>
> Since ~2008, every holiday season, I've been printing calendars with the
> photos taken in the year ending.
> This year, in November, I went online to buy a set of inks, to find out that
> those have been discontinued.
> I've bought some generic set from Amazon. I was expecting that the colors
> might be somewhat off, but to my complete shock, the colors do not work at
> all: essentially, all green turns out black. So, it is totally unusable.
> I am shocked.
> Does anybody know what could be the culprit?
> The color check print ("Check nozzle") seems to give reasonable colors, with
> no nozzles blocked.
>
> I know that there is an option of ordering empty refillable cartridges and
> inks in bottles, and filling those myself, but I am not sure if that would
> end up with a similar result.
>
> I tried to google, and couldn't find much of helpful information.
> I am not sure if someone here still has R2880, but maybe someone has seen
> discussions of solutions that work somewhere on forums.
>
> Thank you,
> Igor
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