Digital BW, The Print

This sorry saga just get worse and worse. I think I will have to get used to the fact that printers and me just don't get along.

It appears as if the check valves on the black cart and the cyan section of the colour cart supplied with the black inkset were faulty. This allowed a large amount of ink to leak past the valves and into the printer.
I had an empty genuine colour and black cart. I did manage to clean nearly all of the old ink out of the colour and black cartridge. It required a lot of rinsing with clean water and pulling the remnants of ink & rinse water out through the sponge. Eventually the water was only slightly tinted and judged that it would be "good enough".
Then I dismantled the printer and cleaned up as much of the ink as I could.
Loaded the black ink into the 2 carts, reset the chips, ran some cleaning cycles and had a look at the nozzle test, not too bad so I started to print a purge page, the one that prints a stripe of each colour down the page.
About halfway down it stopped printing. The head still goes back and forth but no ink on any colour. It just stopped printing suddenly, not like it ran out of ink.
I had a look around at the circuit, checked the 42v supply fuse, but that checks ok. The cleaning cycle works ok as the head cleaning sponge gets saturated and then the ink is pulled away down to the overflow sponge. So there is ink being drawn through the heads, but the head doesn't appear to firing on any nozzles.

That looks like the end of that printer. If anyone has any clues about a fix, then please let me know.

Now, I have this ink and cartridges and invested a lot of time as well, can I use these inks in an Epson 1270 printer? There are a few around and are pretty well the same cartridge/colour configuration as the 2000P. Except they used dye based colour printing.
I guess the chips will be different, but it would be nice if I could get some return on the ink and cartridges.

Any comments welcome.

Cheers
Greg Nixon







--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul" <roark.paul@...> wrote:
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> "Greg" <gregnixon@> wrote:
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> > ... Is there a procedure to purge the remnants of colour ink from it, so I can use it with black ink?
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> I don't know, but I doubt it.  Even with spongeless carts it takes a lot  of rinsing to get all the previous ink out.  I'd guess you'll never succeed with Epson color carts.  I don't know if the black is compatible enough to risk mixing inks in even that one.  
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> Good, new, empty, spongeless carts are what you need.  Long ago I used some MIS units in a 2000P and had no problems, but whether they have the same carts today is unknown.  I might add that the real job of these retailers is to find carts that work -- a minority of those  that are offered by the Chinese suppliers.  Inkjetcarts and InkRepublic are two other outfits that I think have a reasonably good reputation.  If the same owner is there as 5 years ago, Zeiss, former owner of MIS and the guy who really facilitated a more open-source, inexpensive B&W approach, thought the owner of InkRepublic was the best -- about the only one of his competitors he had much respect for.
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> Paul
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