Ink Refill; Time Period For Ink Refills; Precautions When Refilling Ink - Epson SC-F9400H Series Operator's Manual

SC-F9400H Series/SC-F9400 Series Operator's Guide

Ink refill

Time Period for Ink Refills

Immediately take care of the following two points when
Check Ink Levels message is displayed on the control
panel screen.
❏ Prepare an ink pack of the appropriate color.
❏ Check the level of the ink. If the remaining ink is 50
mm or less from the bottom of the ink tank, replace
the chip unit and refill the ink.
Printing cannot be done if even one color is Charge
Expended or Refill Ink Tank. If the Check Ink Levels
message is displayed during a print job, you can replace
the chip unit and refill the ink while printing continues.
Ink packs that can be used with this printer U
"Information on Maintenance Items" on page 53
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Important:
This printer has a remaining ink warning system.
Information about the available amount of ink in
one pack is recorded in the chip unit supplied with a
new ink pack. This information is written to the
printer when the chip unit is installed on the printer.
The ink remaining warning system estimates the
remaining ink based on the ink usage conditions
and the information written to the printer about the
available amount of ink in one pack, and then
displays a message.
To maintain the accuracy of this system, replace the
chip unit and refill the ink as soon as possible once
the remaining ink is 50 mm or less from the bottom
of the ink tank.
Charging and reserving a chip unit
Writing the information about available amount of ink
in one ink pack when a chip unit is installed on the
printer is called "charging".
After charging, the chip unit that was installed on the
printer is no longer needed. If you replace it with the
chip unit attached to a new ink pack, charging will be
done automatically when required.
Maintenance
Installing a new chip unit on the printer to do automatic
charging is called "Reserving".
Reserving can be done at any time if the indicator's level
for the estimated amount of ink is between 1 and 6.
However, when reservation is done, a warning is not
displayed when the estimated amount of ink becomes
low. Refill the ink with one pack of ink if the remaining
ink is 50 mm or less from the bottom of the ink tank.
See steps 2 to 6 in "Procedure for Ink Refills" for the
procedure to replace chip units.
"Procedure for Ink Refills" on page 40
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You can confirm whether or not a chip unit is reserved
by looking at the chip unit's status icon.
U User's Guide (Online Manual)

Precautions when refilling ink

Read the Safety Data Sheet before performing the
procedure.
You can download it at your local Epson Web site.
Caution:
Note the following points when refilling ink.
❏ Gently tear off the ink pack spout opening.
If you cut the nozzle too quickly, ink may
splatter.
❏ Do not squeeze open ink packs. Ink may
spill.
❏ Gently tilt the ink pack when pouring ink
into the ink tank.
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