Printer problem - compatibles & genuines?

[cfodder]

Hi all

Thanks for looking in and for any advice anyone can offer - I've been tearing my hair out this evening and a bit gutted that I may have just blown £50 on nothing (that's a fair amount of cash to me :( )

I have had an Epson Stylus Photo R360 printer for I guess a year or so. It gets very little use and after the orginal carts ran out I bought some compatibles which worked fine.

I haven't used the printer for a couple of months and got it out this week to find that the black ink was unrecognised? As my daughter was desperate to print something for her homework I had to buy some ink locally so paid out £50 for a set at Argos.

When I plugged in the black ink it charged it and seemed happy enough but then said that the light cyan (the next one in the row) was unrecognised. I replaced that too and now it's just gone back to the black being unrecognised again and I can't seem to get past it :(

Apart from the black and light cyan, the others are all compatibles - is it possible that the mix is causing the problem? If the black was first in the row I might assume that the printer was throwing a fit because of the compatibles but there is another colour before it. Should I risk replacing the rest of the carts to see if that works or is my printer goosed?

I am loathe to plug in the rest of them as at least I could claw back a few quid on Ebay for the unused ones so I don't lose everything.

I have uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled the printer but that didn't help.

Any advice would be very welcome.

Thanks

cfodder

[geobon]

Theres nothing wrong with the printer m8, you just cant mix compatibles with originals, must be a full set of either installed.

£50 for epson ink "SHOCK" you could have bought a brand new one with ink for that price.

[cfodder]

Theres nothing wrong with the printer m8, you just cant mix compatibles with originals, must be a full set of either installed.

£50 for epson ink "SHOCK" you could have bought a brand new one with ink for that price.

I know - I almost did buy a new printer instead but I thought I would do the right thing by the environment and not throw a 'perfect working order' printer in the bin. Next time the environment can sod off.

Unfortunately I put the rest of the original Epson carts in and it hasn't helped one bit. Faulty cart? Dead printer? Either way all my beer money has gone this month and I still can't print :(

[geobon]

remove all the carts then switch printer off for a minute or so with no carts installed (this is importannt)

switch it back on and follow the on screen instructions to install the carts using the full set of originals