Can you swap Epson 3800 and 3880 light magenta cartridges?

[ignatiusjk]

Can you use Epson's "vivid" light magenta instead of the regular 5806 light magenta in a Epson 3800 printer.Amazon doesn't have the 5806 ink cartridge just the vivid cartridge.I don't want to jack up my printer.

[Oren Grad]

I think the answer is no, they have different chip programming.

[andy]

It won't recognize it, and it might not even fit.

[Andrew O'Neill]

The cartridges are the same. Just switch the chips.

[Jim Andrada]

Or get it from another supplier

[Oren Grad]

Even if you can get a 3880 light magenta cartridge to "handshake" with a 3800 printer by putting in a 3800 chip, the printer and/or software will use a profile intended for the 3800 ink. I don't know under what circumstances or how much that would mess up your results, but the whole point of introducing the new magenta inks was that they are different, so I don't think it's safe to assume that there will be no perceptible effect.

[Andrew O'Neill]

Worked for me with refillable cartridges and epson chips...but I only make digital negatives.

[Jim Becia]

According to Breathing Color, the vivid light magenta and the vivid magenta are the only ones that CANNOT be switched as all the other ones are the same.

[onnect17]

A couple of years back I bought a resetter in the auction site able to work with both, the maintenance tank and the cartridges. So refilling the cartridges with the vivid ink was not an issue. Of course, a new profile is recommended via linearization.