Install procedures for Epson® Pro 4000
Summary
Use these procedures to convert your color printer to a Piezography printer. If you are
installing user refillable cartridges, please refer to the installation instructions provided with
the refillable cartridges. Whether you use refillable cartridges, CIS, or pre-filled cartridges
(available outside the USA), the placement of the shades of Piezography ink are critical and
not arbitrary. You must refer to the shade location table provided here on this document. A
Piezography system depends upon software with which to control the ink shades. Installation
instructions and support of that software is provided by the manufacturers of those software.
We provide our own guides to our suggested use of QuadTone RIP, so that you can get the
best results from that product.
Printer Testing
Please test your printer with Epson inks prior to installing Piezography inks. This holds true
whether your printer is brand new, or has been in use with a different ink set. Testing your
printer with Epson inks is important, because it allows you to evaluate your printer for any
potential problems due to missing nozzles or unfixable banding issues, which you will
determine by printing and examining nozzle check patterns and test images. While such
problems are unlikely to occur with a new printer, they do occur from time to time. If you
install third party ink in a new printer before testing it with Epson inks, and you do encounter
printing problems, it becomes more difficult to evaluate the cause of the problem.
Use of flush cartridges with the 4000 printer
The use of flush cartridges is suggested when switching to Piezography Neutral K7 inks from
a non-Epson or non-Piezography ink set, or if you have been experiencing clogging problems
with your current ink set. Otherwise, the actual Piezography K7 inks can be used to "flush"
out the pre-existing color inks from your printer. If you do not use flush carts, you may need
to print some additional media before all traces of color ink have been removed.
Black ink cartridges used
The K7 ink set consists of seven cartridges, and this is an eight cartridge printer. Use a non-
empty photo black flush position cart, or Epson photo black ink cartridge in the eighth, photo
black slot. Don’t use a chip resetter on an empty Photo Black cartridge to “fool” the printer
into thinking it has ink in the Photo Black position—using an empty cartridge will damage the
print head!
Items needed to have on hand when changing inks
A set of ink cartridges; a set of flush cartridges (if used); an eighth cartridge, either ink or
flush fluid for the Photo Black slot; a spare maintenance tank (available through Epson), or a
large format cartridge and waste tank chip resetter.
Note about the maintenance tank
: Instead of replacing a full maintenance tank, you may use
a large format chip resetter to reset your maintenance tank chip to read empty. It is safe to
