Epson Photo890, escputil, Cups and near-empty cartridges

From: Keith (klrhodes_at_noSPAMhere.zz)
Date: 11/16/03 

Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 15:55:20 +0100

Hello, all.

I ran into a very annoying problem last night.

I was trying to print a PDF document, and getting nowhere. I knew my
colour cartridge was nearly empty, and had used escputil to check ink
levels (the Cyan was down to 3%), but decided to print B&W anyway.

Maybe I made a mistake, because I got a sheet of colour printout that must
have used the last bit of Cyan ink.

After this, the printer refused to work, Cups and escputil couldn't help
me. I would send a job to the printer, get no sign of life from the
hardware, look at the print queue and see a job. Try to cancel it, print
again, still no movement... Tried looking with the net-basd admin tool
(localhost:631), and got "client-server error"... If I tried escputil, I
would just get no response... no messages came back from the command.

It loks to my inexpert eye, as if the printer simply refuses to
communicate if one of the ink cartridges is empty... Is this right?
Is this a well-known problem with this Epson printer?

Keith.

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