Thank you, David and Stan for your responses.
Yeah, I've seen a few separate colors here and there, but no complete
sets (at a sane price).
Stan: I definitely appreciate your offer, but I am hesitant to deprive you
of those, for when you'll get your own printer running again (eventually).
I was hoping that someone on the list had (or heard of) some success with
one of the 3rd-party inks.
I am trying to decide if I want to try 1-2 options (self-refill
cartridges - with the inks mentioned on one of the forums), or it is time
to "pull the plug" and buy a new printer.
The latter option would require research, as there seems to be no direct
replacement for R2880 by Epson. - Their current printers seem to be
positioned differently.
Any thoughts on those options?
Igor
Stan Halpin wrote on Fri, Dec 27, 2024 1:34 AM
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 Thu, 26 Dec 2024, Igor PDML-StR 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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