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Ink Maintenance Tank for Epson 7600 and 9600 printers
An important new feature of the new Epson Stylus Pro 7600 and Epson Stylus Pro 9600 printers is the REPLACEABLE Ink Maintenance Tank (Part Number C12C890071 - $39.00 list price). This is a big improvement over previous 7000 and 9000 series printers that required a service call (about $675 - and NOT covered by warranty) when your ink pads became saturated and a sensor shut down you printer, and demanded that you make this service call!
The new, do-it-yourself Replacement Ink Maintenance Tank has 11 upright pads in it. A waste bottle would have been cheaper, but messier. The pads keep the ink very nicely contained. The replacement tank comes with a plastic bag for disposal of the old tank.
How fast does the tank fill up? Regular nozzle cleaning cycles will put waste ink into the tank and slowly fill it up. With the older printers and pads, it often took a couple of years or more to fill up the pads if you didn't change back and forth to different inksets. However, in these new 7600/9600 printers, we are seeing some tanks fill up after the printer has used gone through about four complete sets of ink cartridges, and filling up much faster if one changes back and forth between "black" inks (the Photo and Matte black inks).
WARNING: Keep a spare tank handy. The Replacement Ink Maintenance Tank has a micro-chip sensor that will not allow it to be re-used. When the printer senses that the pads in the tank are fully saturated, your printer will shut down and refuse to print until the tank is replaced! Click here to order a spare tank
Because these new printers allow the user to switch between the Photo Black and Matte Black inks, Epson finally decided they needed to put in place a better waste ink capturing system that the previous "pad" solution (this is also used in Epson's desktop models, which because they don't have long ink lines or tubes running to the heads [with the exception of the 3000 model], rarely ever saturated the pads). Each time a user changes ink on the 7600 or 9600, he can expect to dump 180ml to 215ml of ink across the entire 7 inks installed during the conversion process. (It would be nice if Epson could make it so only the black ink lines had to be purged, but Epson tells us that this is not possible because of the print head design.)
Best 7600/9600 UltraChrome Ink Prices
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Copyright 2002 Royce Bair & The Stock Solution
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