Unoffical Epson GS6000 Wiki Launches!

A Wiki for the 64" eco-solvent printer, the Epson GS6000, has been launched at www.EpsonGS6000.com . The site will be a place where people looking to buy Epson GS6000 printers and current owners of GS6000's can come together to discuss issues, tips, tricks, and tutorials on the Epson GS6000.



More on the project to come soon.

Epson 3800 Refurbs Printers - Ink Charging Problem

If you are having problems setting up a refurbished Epson 3800 printer, read the following about the experience I had.

Upon opening the printer and putting all the inks in, and powering the printer up, the normal ink charging cycles did not start (I've set up a few of these printers brand new). The front of the 3800 will say that the printer has 100% of ink (all the ink bars will be full). When you charge a new Epson Stylus 3800, it leaves you with about 70% in the cartridges (the remainder mostly goes in the lines between the cartridges and the printer head.

Epson tests all the refurbished 3800's before they send them out, so they already charged the lines (think of this a gift of about $100 of ink).

The first print you should do once you open the printer is a nozzle check. If they are all full and there is 8 different colors of them (see above image) then you have passed the first test. You should change black inks on the front of the Epson 3800 at this point. If you were on Photo Black, switch it to Matte Black Ink, or vice-versa. Now run the nozzle check again. If it looks good, you should be good to go.

I had to do 2 power cleans (one on both black settings) before the nozzles all began firing. It took one last one and it has worked perfectly since. Any questions or need help? Contact me or leave a comment below.

--Michael

What helps if you suspect Fraud from Overseas?

We received the following comment over the weekend on our Second Post about The Feed The Children Banner Scam and Fake Company Fraud from Ghana. I am curious to see if anyone else has advice for what to do if you suspect you have already been the victim of fraud?

Let us know if the comments and lets see if we can help each other out.

--Michael

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pmmb has left a new comment on the post "Another Banner Scam Email from Ghana - "God is Gre...":

Is there anyone who can help me? My husband has sent $115,000.00 or more to a Ghanan guy - to his bank in New Jersey! It's for a computer contract from 21 months back. My husband thinks the guy is legitimate??!!! I can't believe it - how naive do people come? Any advice? I wanted to stay married, but it is hard based on my husband doing this all behind my back and now thinking it is legitimate.