Any *working* solutions for Epson R2880 inks?
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
Checked our local pusher, Henry’s, they have VERY limited stock only three
colours so I’m not helpful
Dave
Documenting Life in Rural Ontario.
www.caughtinmotion.com
http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/
York Region, Ontario, Canada
On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 11:21 AM Igor PDML-StR pdmlstr@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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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 pdmlstr@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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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
Sent from my iPad
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
Am 27.12.24 um 16:41 schrieb Igor PDML-StR:
...or it is time to "pull the plug" and buy a new printer.
Do you really print enough to justify the expense of a new printer? When
Epson repaired my 2730 (?) to death and offered me a discount on a R2400
I bought it and had nothing but trouble with it. What a money burning
machine. Once a colour was 'unclogged' by wasting half a cartridge the
next one had gone empty and the whole spiel would start all over until
the next one was empty...
I eventually pulled the emergency brake and sold it as defect for spares.
There are so many places online nowadays where one can order good
quality prints almost overnight.
Ralf
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Depends on how much you print or how badly you want to do your own
printing regardless of cost...I can recommend the Epson P-700 as I've
had one for the past couple years. If you can pull the plug and make a
purchase by December 31, there's a $200 mail-in rebate. Like the 2880
the P-700 has a 13" carriage. Be aware that the ink cartridges that
come with the new printer are not full as they were in the past so
you'll want to be prepared to buy more cartridges soon. In addition to
the "starter" cartridges that came with the printer I bought one full
set and now buy them individually as needed.
Red River Paper has several articles and reviews of the P-700, including
ink costs for various paper sizes. You may find some of this helpful.
Red River has reviews of other Epson and Canon printers on their web
site as well, always with the info on how they print on Red River's paper.
https://www.redrivercatalog.com/search.html?addsearch=p700+starter+cartridges.
-p
On 12/26/2024 10:12 AM, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
Hi All,
This holiday season revealed to me the doom of my beloved Epson R2880.
Thank you,
Igor
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Am 27.12.24 um 19:21 schrieb Paul Sorenson:
Be aware that the ink cartridges that come with the new printer are
not full as they were in the past...
Just when was that past? Must have been before my Stylus Photo 1200 and
that was how many decades ago? All my Epson printers have come with
those starter cartridges.
Ralf
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Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com
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My experience has been that my previous Epson printers came with full
cartridges - an R2000 and an R800 before that. The P700, on the other
hand had about 25% remaining in the cartridges after setup - and setup
didn't use the first 75%. 🙂
-p
On 12/27/2024 12:44 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote:
Am 27.12.24 um 19:21 schrieb Paul Sorenson:
Be aware that the ink cartridges that come with the new printer are
not full as they were in the past...
Just when was that past? Must have been before my Stylus Photo 1200
and that was how many decades ago? All my Epson printers have come
with those starter cartridges.
Ralf