Digital BW, The Print

Hi Eddie,

Thank you very much for your help!  I am happy to report that the problem have been solved!  In my eagerness to use my first B&W printer, I indeed overfilled cartridges ;).  After taking out extra ink and realigning print heads it prints really well.  There are miles of stuff in front of me to learn about B&W printing but now it works!

Thanks a lot,
Alex


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "edward wiseman" <pahts@...> wrote:
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> Hello Alex..
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> Based on my experience with the exact same combo"
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> 1:  You are NOT getting good nozzle checks..You Need to run some cleaning cycles.. and re-check.
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> 2:   You may have "over-filled" one or more of your cartridges..Inks should be no more than 1/4" from the top of the cartridges..Are you SURE you have ALL the cartridges in the correct positions/With the correct ink installed for eacH cartridge?..If you have overfilled then, you can take your needle syringe and draw out about enough ink until you're 1/4" from the top..
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> 3: Re-install your carts and run a couple cleaning cycles followed by nozzle checks..You can also run several "purge-patterns" you can find on the MIS site. 
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> 4.0 While on the MIS site, be sure to re-read Paul Roark's tutorial on this ink/printer combo....I have found it pretty easy to  get exemplary results with this system..
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> Good Luck!
> 
> Eddie
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: oleshvets 
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 11:53 PM
>   Subject: [Digital BW] please help newbie with 1400 and ut 14 inks
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>   i have just installed ut 14 inks (which i refilled myself, obviously) into epson 1400 printer. i definitely messed up something somewhere along the way since my prints are extremely pale and ink spills on pages like a black rain. i printed just four pages and i have uploaded them to show the problem:
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>   scan 008 and scan 009 are the first and second nozzle checks that i did
>   scan 010 is the first photo that i tried to print and 
>   scan 011 is my third nozzle check.
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>   please give me some ideas what i should check to troubleshoot this problem. thank you very much for your help!
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>   alex
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>   http://img401.imageshack.us/i/scan008.jpg/
>   http://img819.imageshack.us/i/scan009k.jpg/
>   http://img638.imageshack.us/i/scan010.jpg/
>   http://img801.imageshack.us/i/scan011g.jpg/
>   http://img411.imageshack.us/i/p5270223.jpg/
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