Digital BW, The Print

I sounds like  you may have received bad carts.  I'd talk to the seller about them.

When you load empty carts, be sure to prime  them.  If you don't pull a little ink out the outlet there will be a lot  of  air  in there that is hard to remove  with cleaning cycles.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Greg" <gregnixon@...> wrote:
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> I've given this digital black and white printing a shot but so far have failed dismally.
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> I have an Epson 2000P, which was quite nice in its day and even now produces good colour prints.
> I decided to convert it to black and white. I purchased the 6 bottles of ink, a couple of spongeless empty cartridges, filling accessories etc. I filled the carts according to the instructions and fitted them into the printer.
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> There were only a few nozzles printing, and unreliably at that. There was a lot of ink on the cleaning sponge, and ink was pooling under the head and leaving big blobs along the print head path and soiling the paper. I abandoned that attempt and cleaned up the printer up and refitted the colour carts.
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> A cleaning cycle later and all was working properly in colour. I repeated the whole procedure again and when I fitted the colour carts back it worked fine again after a couple of cleaning cycles.
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> After comparing the two carts it appeared that the refillable cart was 1mm or so shorter than the original. Maybe the carts were not seating properly. I removed the close down lids, fitted the black carts, pushing them down firmly and secured them with a cable tie and some foam. The results were much better, the 4 lighter greys were printing ok, but not the black and not the medium black. Thats a bit odd as the black is a single cartridge and the medium black is one compartment in the 5 colour cart.
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> The end result was much better, but I couldn't get the black and med black to print without banding. There was still a lot of ink on the cleaning sponge and still pooling under the print head and dropping ink onto the printhead path.
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> What do I do now? If it was the print head then it wouldn't print properly in colour. Are these empty and refilled carts prone to failure.
> I ordered carts for an Epson 2000P but recieved carts for a 1280/1290. Does anyone know if they are interchangeable.
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> Any help and advice would be welcome.
> 
> Cheers
> Greg
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