Now that I have the proper profile, great results

Nope I am serious as a heart attack!

The Waste ink Counter is part of the printers firmware.

That might be the reason but it all depends on the design of the printer, the size of the pads and how ofter one has to run cleanning cycles. Plus for such an old printer there were free utilities to reset the counter. People would reset them until the ink ink litterally poured out from the bottom of the printer onto your desk

Extremely difficult. You litterally have to disassemble the complete printer to get to them.

Only PRO level Epson printers allow you to replace the Waste ink Pads as they are actually part of a so called Chipped Maintenance Tank. Which is a replacable component you can purchase for $20 to $40 depending on the model.

Some of the AIO printers like the Artisan series has a hatch underneath the case the you can access the pads to replace them. Resetting is another question. I have not found a good relliable resetter yet.

I don't know what you are talking about. There is no switch of MK to PK or viceversa on the R1900

No waste whatsoever.

Auto cleanning occur usually if you shut down the printer for many days, upon powering it on it would likely run a cleaning cycle to make sure you have 100% clear nozzles. I run a nozzle check print every Friday on all 15 of my printers. More often during the heating season.

There are two waste ink counters. One keeps track of the liquid ink sucked out during purges and cleaning cycles. The second counter keeps track of the overspray of ink during borderless printing. This ink is absorbed by the foam the runs accross where the paper feeds. If you look directly down inside the printer you will see it.

Yes that looks like a bait and switch to me. I tend to just buy mine at Staples must of the time.

I am not selling ink. I sell refillable cartridges for the R2000. Personally, I do use Image Specialists inks which I get from Inkjetcarts. The OCP inks I spoke of had to order directly from Germany. I would have to use OEM GLOP carts in order to achieve minimal gloss defferential but I mostly print only Matte papers so no such problem.

If I had known about the cheap OEM cart sets off of EBAY earlier, I would have just used those instead, as nothing really achieves the gloss quality of OEM. But since I print probably 80% matte I do not have to worry about the minor gloss problems of IS or OCP inks. Plus by using these inks, my only real significant cost is the paper.

Tomorrow I will send you the samples print, blank paper, image files with Qimage filters, and all the OEM R2000 profiles.

Open Qimage and point it to the image folder in the CD. I sent you Screen grabs showning all pertinent settings I used to print the samples. Match those and your prints should match mine. If they do, then you are all set. If they don't them you are doing something different.

Joe

PS: I forget to add that a short while after that they will suddenly drop to the real level. Gives you quite a scare.