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Message: [QUOTE="ncstatecamp, post: 209375, member: 10142"] Epson workforce 1100 printer not recognizing cartridges Excuse the long text, just wanted to be through. I recently had an issue with shitty print quality after running the head cleaning command a few times I decided to disassemble and clean the print head. I used [this video]([MEDIA=youtube]iVjwG7I9MuU[/MEDIA]), and later the Epson factory service manual (pm for link) to disassemble, only issue was I dropped a screw and broke a hinge on the top door (no biggie). Cleaned the old dried ink with q-tips and ISO alcohol, that was definitely the problem with print quality. Reassembled everything. At first I was having an issue with the cartridge being locked/not unlocking (as I found later there's a carriage lock, keep reading) and getting a really bad gear grinding sound and a general error. Kill power try again same thing. Find and read the manual, see there's a manual cartridge lock disengage, take the shroud off, find it, unlock the carriage manually. Start it up, everythings fine except the general error. Thinking maybe I didn't seat a ribbon cable well enough or something, I disassembled everything again, found a tiny bit of schmoo on a ribbon cable to the PCB board on the side of carriage and put everything back together snugly. Start her up, everything's looking great, no general error but a [URL='https://i.imgur.com/nWBF4ph.png']no recognized ink error[/URL]. These are the same (albeit not OEM Epson) cartridges I was using previously that worked fine, just not best quality bc of the dried ink on the head (dried bc I don't use it all that often. Things I've tried to solve this: - Remove ink cartridges using built in function, shut it down, unplug, hit the power to discharge any residual power, wait a while (1 hr plus), plug it in, start it up and add cartridges again. Same error. - try using some old empty Epson cartridges I had (only CMY) it reads those fine while saying the [URL='https://i.imgur.com/sc5GzDK.png']black was empty[/URL]. Add in old nonOEM black with the empty good epson, get a [URL='https://i.imgur.com/nWBF4ph.png']cant ready any error[/URL]. - try same old empty Epson but with new non OEM blacks, s[URL='https://i.imgur.com/nWBF4ph.png']ame error[/URL]. - try both of those in combo of starting up empty and adding or, running a change out program, nada - Tried removing the printer and adding back it to control panel, nope. - Only thing I can think of is to find some old Epson 68/69 black from a recycler, and have those along with my current CMY to maybe "reset" the system. Extra Details: -none of the gold pines on the carriage are bent, broken or damaged in any visible manner. -happens regardless of if my computer is plugged in or not. -just tried using the computer ink replace system rather then the hardware/firmware button type, no difference. -Also I get a notice of "ink cartridges cant be recognized" for all of them even then 3 are Epson OEM and 2 are not, though if only the 3 Epson oem are installed I get just a [URL='https://i.imgur.com/KB9eZLN.jpg']"ink cartridges cant be recognized" [/URL] Help? Any suggestions? Let me know if theres anything I can answer to help diagnose. TLDR: printer was printing kinda shitty, cleaned head manually, assembled, disassembled, reassembled now won't recognize non-oem that was working fine before. [/QUOTE]

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