Ink Charge - Epson Stylus COLOR 800 Service Manual

EPSON Stylus &RORU 800
4.2.3

Ink Charge

You must perform this operation after installing the "ASP Printhead" or " ASP Printer Mechanism" in which
new "Printheads" are installed. "ASP Printheads" or "Printheads" installed in the "ASP Printer Mechanism"
has shipping liquid filled in the cavity, and this operation is required to eject the liquid to replace it with the
ink. Therefore be sure to perform the initial ink charge operation whenever you replace the printhead,
since the lack of this operation might cause dot missing. The procedure and notes for this operation are
described below.
; Avoid unnecessary initial ink charge operation, which consumes considerable amount of ink
(about one fifth of the ink cartridge capacity is consumed by this operation).
; Do not turn the printer off before this program is completed. Otherwise, the ink dose not filled
enough in the cavity of the "Printhead". in case of the power was turned off while this operation, do
this operation again by using this program.
; This initial charge program is difference with the initial charge sequence which is carried out
automatically on the first power on time. This program carry out to chage the almost same value of
the ink which is used on the first power on initial charge sequence.
1. Set this program to FFD on your PC and turn the PC on.
2. The program automatically sets up and the following menu appears on the screen.
3. Enter "1" for "Select menu : ?" to select "Input of Customer data" in the menu.
Press "ENTER" key, and the menu below appears.
4.
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CAUTION
Figure 4-8. Main Menu
Figure 4-9. Input of Customer Data
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