Digital BW, The Print

Been very happy with my R1800 using Eboni 3MK, but when I set it up that way one of arguments for this printer was you could use it for both color and b/w, if you were willing to forego glossy color because the GLOP position was now dedicated to Eboni ink.

Lately I've had a few jobs from clients who want color. I prefer matte prints anyway, so I don't really need the GLOP cartridge. Currently, my five color positions are filled with MIS cleaning fluid, and I've added just a touch of Eboni to that fluid so I can monitor my nozzle checks. Otherwise of course I can't tell whether my five color nozzles are open.

I plan to use new MIS empty carts for the color positions, filling them myself with MIS color inks. Before I do that, do I need to flush out the five color nozzles with cleaning fluid in yet another set of clean carts, without the touch of Eboni? 

Any other issue, pitfalls, gotchas I should be aware of? I don't want to screw up my carbon ink printing!

TIA!

Paul

It sounds like  very little carbon is in the color positions. As such I
would not bother with cleaning fluid.

Paul
www.paulroark.com
On Oct 21, 2012 4:11 PM, "Paul" <paulmwhiting@...> wrote:

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>
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> Been very happy with my R1800 using Eboni 3MK, but when I set it up that
> way one of arguments for this printer was you could use it for both color
> and b/w, if you were willing to forego glossy color because the GLOP
> position was now dedicated to Eboni ink.
>
> Lately I've had a few jobs from clients who want color. I prefer matte
> prints anyway, so I don't really need the GLOP cartridge. Currently, my
> five color positions are filled with MIS cleaning fluid, and I've added
> just a touch of Eboni to that fluid so I can monitor my nozzle checks.
> Otherwise of course I can't tell whether my five color nozzles are open.
>
> I plan to use new MIS empty carts for the color positions, filling them
> myself with MIS color inks. Before I do that, do I need to flush out the
> five color nozzles with cleaning fluid in yet another set of clean carts,
> without the touch of Eboni?
>
> Any other issue, pitfalls, gotchas I should be aware of? I don't want to
> screw up my carbon ink printing!
>
> TIA!
>
> Paul
>
>  
>


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Thanks Paul,

That's surprising... I would think even a little carbon ink would be noticeable in the color ink. I use no more than 2 ml Eboni in a 4 oz plastic jar of MIS cleaning fluid, so that would be 2 ml to 120 m1, or about 1.6%.

Paul

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Paul Roark <roark.paul@...> wrote:

>
> It sounds like  very little carbon is in the color positions. As such I
> would not bother with cleaning fluid.
> 
> Paul
> www.paulroark.com
> On Oct 21, 2012 4:11 PM, "Paul" <paulmwhiting@...> wrote:
> 
> > **
> >
> >
> > Been very happy with my R1800 using Eboni 3MK, but when I set it up that
> > way one of arguments for this printer was you could use it for both color
> > and b/w, if you were willing to forego glossy color because the GLOP
> > position was now dedicated to Eboni ink.
> >
> > Lately I've had a few jobs from clients who want color. I prefer matte
> > prints anyway, so I don't really need the GLOP cartridge. Currently, my
> > five color positions are filled with MIS cleaning fluid, and I've added
> > just a touch of Eboni to that fluid so I can monitor my nozzle checks.
> > Otherwise of course I can't tell whether my five color nozzles are open.
> >
> > I plan to use new MIS empty carts for the color positions, filling them
> > myself with MIS color inks. Before I do that, do I need to flush out the
> > five color nozzles with cleaning fluid in yet another set of clean carts,
> > without the touch of Eboni?
> >
> > Any other issue, pitfalls, gotchas I should be aware of? I don't want to
> > screw up my carbon ink printing!
> >
> > TIA!
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

it is going to purge very quickly in an R1800.  A couple of good head 
cleanings at the most.  It is not as though you have lines to purge.

I would run the MIS purge page for the printer one time.

Seth

Good tip on the purge page, Seth, thank you. I already have those purge files on my Desktop, some multi-channel and some just one channel, and a purge will be easy to do.

Paul

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Seth Rossman <seth@...> wrote:

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> it is going to purge very quickly in an R1800.  A couple of good head 
> cleanings at the most.  It is not as though you have lines to purge.
> 
> I would run the MIS purge page for the printer one time.
> 
> Seth
>