I replaced 2 of the original manufacturer's color cartridges with these today. Print quality was awful. What could I have done wrong?
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If you have a Epson WF-3540 have you gone in set up > maintenance > and tried nozzle check, print head alignment or head cleaning functions?
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Look at the front of the cartage of the old one, then look at the new one, are the copper digits that connect them the same or misshapen?. I had to send all of mine back , they're Chinese knock offs that weren't build properly. They should be square, not oval or touching.
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well i ordered these and have no complaints; but try cleaning the headers due to change....request test page after cleaning. if ink quality is still poor, try repeating the process until quality is of satisfactory....good luck
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you didn't do anything wrong. I had the same problem and the company would not do anything about them because it was past so many days! Everywhere else I ordered the cartridges from were good up to a year if there was a problem. Not this company. some of my were not recognized by the printer, so they weren't any good to me. Other ones leaked in the bag. I've been trying to use them up, but I have to clean the heads alot too. These are garbage and amazon should stop selling them.
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Nothing. These nearly ruined my printer. I threw them away. Some of the cartridges would not even be recognized by the machine. Best thing is to get rid of them or return them and by genuine Epson ink.
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you didn't do anything wrong. I had the same problem and the company would not do anything about them because it was past so many days! Everywhere else I ordered the cartridges from were good up to a year if there was a problem. Not this company. some of my were not recognized by the printer, so they weren't any good to me. Other ones leaked in the bag. I've been trying to use them up, but I have to clean the heads alot too. These are garbage and amazon should stopselling them.
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Well it could be a few things. First, Did you run a print alinement or select clean printer heads . Or you may have just ordered the wrong cartridges
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Each cartridge I replaced immediately failed the nozzle check. I don't know why I kept going but... it only got worse. So I ordered the genuine Epson inks ($40 for black + colors set- 2 orders by the way). After 5-10 cleanings, waiting a day after doing two in a row (as recommended), it finally seems to work again. And the cleaning used up about 1/2 the ink. So it took $20 worth of ink (and a lot of determination) to overcome the cheap $6 solution that seemed (and was) too good to be true. DONT TRY IT!!!!!To be specific: This is with an XP-310.
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Sorry, I can't be much help. The ones that came with the printer didn't last long. Figured I'd get the bigger ones. Have to say I'm very displeased with the amount of printing from one cartridge. Perhaps the cartridges that came with the printer were some sort of sample size.
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I had the same problem. In my case, it wasn't the cartridge. I eventually purchased another printer.
59722
i see that these are for your printer so i would contact the vendor for a replacement.these worked perfectly in my printer.
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If you haven't already, double check your installation -- that they are correct cartridges in correct spots. Perhaps you have dud cartridges. Try exchanging them for a new set. We have replaced our cartridges with no problem.
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The ink leaked, totally messed up my printer. I removed the Printer-mate cartridges and replaced them with the Epson cartridges, but damage had been done. Most of the time the print is in yellow, unreadable. I'm in the process of purchasing a new printer. I will never purchase Printer-mate cartridges again!!!!!!!!!!
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I can't tell you--the printer was a piece of junk. I did get a replacement-which was also a piece of junk! neither one lasted through a cartridge change.
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I could not get any of them to work, though I ran all the maintenance on the printer several times. I had to go purchase new cartridges at the store.
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Victoria, do not buy these. When you install them no ink comes out at first. I had to have the printer do its automated clean thing ~20 times to get it to print normally (using 1/4" of the ink by the way). Additionally the black works intermittently (sometime to black ink at all). I am not sure what is wrong with this or if it is just not very compatible.
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The cartridges worked in my printer for a very short period of time. After a day or two, the The printer gave me an error message "missing black and color cartridges" and would not print. It did this same thing with all the cartridges.
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I'm sure that vendors send out different quality products. Mine gave me tons of problems and seem to have permanently damaged my printer. Some colors refused to print, and the others were such low quality that the ink fades over time. Pictures that I printed with it turned all washed out after a month or so. The price looked tempting, but I might as well just have thrown my printer out. I guess that the worst is you might not know until you try printing, and its possible that the damage is done by then.
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I purchased these and they have not worked very well. The colors have been off and some of them don't fit right in the printer and cannot be used.
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I used to have the same problem with them, sometimes my printer says "can't recognize this or that color". What I do, is I make sure that my cartridges are full, and I take them out one by one from the printer and shake them up. For some reason, after I shake them, the printer recognize them. It's might be a "texture" problem with the ink, I think they not thick enough like the original Epson ink, so you have to shake them up constantly. I also want to note, that the first prints are going to be messy, you have to print out at least 5 copies before you get a perfect one.
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Yep, I still have 100 freshly sealed-packed 'HP Premium Plus' and some opened quantity of 50 (for a total of about 150 or so), fed it to the Artisan 810 and the results were atrocious! The ink does not dry and the pics looked like a bunch of old photographs from 1981 -- sort of yellowish, brownish sepia effect with black dots all over. Then I decided to print on some of the samples that came along with the Epson and the prints were the best I've seen so far, also, the inks dried up instantly. As a matter of fact they looked better than the ones produced by your local Walgreen's or Rite-Aid.
615135
I have found issues with the new replacement cartridges as well. You need to set your printer to clean the print heads than align printer to except the cartridges.
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I got the same error code. I checked the ink levels & found that the black was low & needed replacing.