Harry, use only the Epson carts till you've got the nozzle clog
problems solved. That way you know you have good carts. I find the
Epson ink to be best at unclogging nozzles. Don't hesitate to reuse
them as they have poppet valves which make them reusable.
BTW, Bob at MIS says their $5 Chinese "el cheapo" color carts work
like the Epson ones in this regard. I have some but have not tried to
use them for this yet.
Bob Michaels
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Harry Saddler
<hsaddler@p...> wrote:
> Since my original post, I went to MIS' site and followed the
> instructions for introducing an "air break" into the carts. Suddenly,
> two problematic colors started printing fine. But two still have lines
> (indicating a clog, probably) and one doesn't appear at all. I'm
> letting it rest, and if it's still NFG, I'm going to try to flush out
> the offending nozzles by injecting Windex, then doing the de-foaming &
> air-break routine again. Then I'm going to take an icepick to the
> nozzles. Ok, maybe not that last step...
>
> I did put Epson carts in to try to get things back to an unclogged
> state, but they wouldn't unclog, so I took 'em out and did the
> Windex-inject trick. But then I didn't put the Epson carts back in,
> cause I figured they're unsealed and I don't know what effect that has.
>
> Harry
>
> On Jan 22, 2004, at 4:45 PM, Bob Michaels wrote:
>
> > Any problems in a system with a CFS requires you first substitue
> > original Epson carts to determine if you have a nozzle problem or cart
> > problem. Otherwise you'll be chasing a nozzle problem when you really
> > have a cart problem. Your's sounds like it could be a cart problem but
> > you can tell for sure if it prints fine with Epson carts. Call MIS and
> > you'll eventually ending up talking to Bob, the owner. He'll probably
> > tell you to disconnect the cart from the tube, suck out all the ink
> > from the bottom and bottom refill with exactly 9cc's of ink (for a
> > 1280 cart), let sit for a few hours then try it. CFS carts need the
> > right amount of air in them. I love my MIS CFS but they can be a bit
> > quirky to set up.
> > Bob Michaels
> >
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Harry Saddler
> > <hsaddler@p...> wrote:
> >> I just switched my 1280 from MIS VM to MIS UT-2/Eboni, using a new,
> >> prefilled set of MIS CFS carts & tubes. I cannot get clean nozzle
> >> checks. I did windex-on-pad, windex-under-head,
> >> windex-nozzle-injection, MIS's de-foaming procedure, several
cycles of
> >> 3 cleaning passes followed by three purge prints. For my labors, one
> >> color is now not printing at all, and the black cart just squirts ink
> >> on the edge of the page. I must be doing SOMETHING wrong!?
> >>
> >> Harry
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