Digital BW, The Print

David,

Please do not take this harshly, but I believe that you have not properly evaluated the system Tom made for you, and yet you're asking for some technical support from others who have no idea what you are experimenting with. Missing nozzles in an established product are easier to tech support, than a whole litany of issues that can be at hand when you begin experimenting with custom inks.

If you want some advise on how to properly evaluate a new ink formulation or a custom ink formulation please ask me. It might be helpful to others as well. But, you're sitting with an expensive printer right now that has missing gaps, no more ink to print, and you may be too pissed to take my advice in. If you can take it in, I think it will help you.

In the meantime - you were given excellent advise to test the printer first with OEM inks. Also flushing! Not all inks can intermix with the OEM in the print head. I don't know what Tom is doing. I only know his excellent printmaking.

You may have simply been dealing with tiny air bubbles and needed to turn the printer off for a day or two to let it dissipate. The carts may not have pressurized fully. We can't possibly know without your having more ink to continue the experiment.

Jon Cone

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, David Kachel <david@...> wrote:
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> On May 19, 2010, at 9:24 AM, piezobw wrote:
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> > What brand of ink are you trying to print in them?
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> OVI/Tom Mallonee, hextone.
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> David Kachel
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