Digital BW, The Print

The plastic (tygon?) tubes are not impermeable to water.  They allow 
water (the major component of ink) to evaporate.  This process is 
accelerated in hot and low humidity conditions.  The humidity in my 
printer room is almost always above 50% (yeah, I live in Seattle) and 
I have not had a clog in almost 2 years.

Jeff Randall

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., josh smith <josh@r...> 
wrote:
> on 20/8/02 9:07 am,josh smith @ josh_smith@c... wrote:
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "azshtr" <dave@t...> 
wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> 
> > lines and the BLACK line was clogged again! This time it sat
> > unused for only 2 weeks. After I removed the system and flushed
> > the line with a syring, sucked ink back into the line and
> > reinstalled it, I got a perfect head pattern.
> > 
> > Is this normal? A clogged line after 2 weeks seems excessive to
> > me. Anyone else have this problem and what are you doing to
> > avoid it? (the obvious solution is to not let it sit unused for 
very
> > long) Thanks for any insight.
> > 
> > Dave Tevis
> 
> I had the same problem, it happened twice in within a month. 
Trouble is
> I didn't realise it was the tube that was clogged. I "blew" out the 
clog
> with a syringe by detaching the tube from the carts elbow joint.
> Trouble was I covered my wall with black ink !!!.
> 
> I have had two months of trouble free printing now.
> 
> Hope it helps
> 
> Josh
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