Idiot's guide to making a CD printer from an Epson 640

Strahlen

Strahlen

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Been a while..

RASTABT, remember.. there was someone boasting about having done this with a diff. brand a while back, but never followed up on the thread.. :(


Spotted this over @ dvdrhelp.c*m

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*** Idiot's guide to making a CD printer from an Epson 640 ***

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Well here it is... your guide to making a CD printer, on the cheap! This is not meant to replace your photo/text printer. It will only print to CD's after this mod. If you need one machine to do everything, you better just buy a machine that will work for CD's and paper.

I used an Epson Stylus Color 640 because I had one sitting collecting dust. This mod should work on all Epson printers that use this style of paper feed. They all use the same case too, so if it looks like this one, you should be OK. The 6XX use 1440x720 heads. The 4XX uses 720x720 heads. These use the older style of ink cartridge that DOES NOT have an ink counter chip in it. This means refilling is a breeze, and the printer can be purchased used real cheap. You should be able to do the same thing with any of the printers in this series.

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scarecrow

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It may not have an ink counter chip, but Epson has changed the sponge type in ALL the cartridges it builds now- the new one can't be filled to more than 20-25% of the capacity of a new cartridge. You still have to buy a third party refillable one.
 
Phil K

Phil K

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scarecrow said:
It may not have an ink counter chip, but Epson has changed the sponge type in ALL the cartridges it builds now- the new one can't be filled to more than 20-25% of the capacity of a new cartridge. You still have to buy a third party refillable one.
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I have had nothing but trouble from my Epson 810. Its got to the ridiculous point now that I have to clean the heads at least a dozen times for it to - MAYBE - print properly. And half the time (and its getting progressively worse) it still DOESN'T print properly. Never again.
 
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scarecrow

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Phil K said:
I have had nothing but trouble from my Epson 810. Its got to the ridiculous point now that I have to clean the heads at least a dozen times for it to - MAYBE - print properly. And half the time (and its getting progressively worse) it still DOESN'T print properly. Never again.
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I have an Epson 760 which sends EVERY HP printer to the cleaners without any effort, but it DOES consume a lot of ink, and it is slow.
Currently using refillable third party cartridges (color balance is not perfect, but not bad either- better than the one with HP printers and official inks), so if I switch I would go for an Epson inkjet 9000 A3 printer (great, but costly). But NEVER, EVER for a HP printer again- you have to suck to like them.
last time I recommended a cheap HP printer to a guy that could not afford one of the good Epson models I was blamed being a pimp: the catridge module went tits up after printing just 150 pages, and the replacement costed 75% of the printer value...
 
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