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My printer's ink belt is been snapped and bitten by rat how to fix it

Printer ink belt snapped

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replace the ink belt, theres guides online i think, if it dosent fit or smt, send me a picture and we will figure it out later

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Thanks bro I will check

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no problemo mate

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Did the rat bite the rubber drive belt or the plastic tubing on the CISS tanks? If the printhead drive belt was bit, you can replace it, but it's a bit of a job. See if you can find one for the L310. It shouldn't be hard since these are derived from the Epson XP/cartridge-based L series with the ink chip detection and hard stop coding removed. I don't know what Epson modified on early units.

It's a similar model to laser printers in the same family; the difference is often marginally worse parts being binned for the low end (where you need to adjust it so frequently you burn $400 in toner x2 sets very quickly trying to keep the nightmare going before you want to throw it out of the truck bed and watch $400 in toner turn into a cloud of dust mixed with the waste toner as a bonus because the printer can't hold the CMYK calibration correctly for more than a few months.

If the rat bit the ink tank lines, you're screwed in terms of fixing the OEM Epson tank :-(. Find a 3rd party CISS tank system without the cartridges and retrofit it onto the Epson ink carriers. You want one WITHOUT INK TANKS included (if possible) to convert it to use the Epson dummy parts and reduce as much system disruption as possible to avoid having to bleed it more than you have to (you will need a syringe to remove the air from each "cartridge" to get the air out or you will muck up the printer enough to make fixing it FAR worse). Check one of the intact lines and use a caliper on the tube itself (without squeezing it!), then do the same for the internal portion of the tube. Once you do that, measure the connector on the OEM ink carriers. While, in theory, it's possible to remove all of the Epson CISS parts and convert it to 3rd party CISS, it will not matter if what you use has chips as these CISS Epson do not have chip readers (or depend on it to print), and lack a cartridge authentication mechanism. It will not be used, so you are simply paying for parts you do not need.

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Bro thanks I will replace the belt It didn't do anything to the tubes only the belt

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@yogarajahp29266 Good. Look for an XP/L belt from a printer with a similar control panel.

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Bro should have been the chosen one

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