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Re: Epson Direct Inkjet with Homemade CIS and autoreset

2006-06-14 by Steve

The guy at ColorBAT go so sick of the noisy few who could not get a
prebuilt CIS to work, he stopped selling them. However, he has
instructional PDFs on his website:
http://www.colorbat.com

The pages load -very- slowly.

The most important thing is ink level, and an air bubble in the damper
(that's what the "cartridge with a hose in it" is called in a CIS). A
cartridge with a flexible thin plastic sheet side may get away without
an air bubble, but it's better with it.

Here, I'm never going to make money on this da** thing, there are too
many cut-rate bulk ink systems out there. No one wants to pay for
reliability, they'd rather replace a $50 system every year:
http://www.polyphoto.com/tutorials/bulkinksystem/

Steve Greenfield

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Lez <lez.briddon@...> wrote:
>
> >cis
> 
> I'm interested in this as I cant get an economically priced cis
> system, I wont need to rechip to start, but its the
> tubes/bottles/vacuum/syringes etc, seems a good idea but a bit of a
> build, although once running I suppose its all plain sailing from then
> on.
> 
> Will this selfbuild be able to use the original sponge carts or will
> it need spongeless
>

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