Digital BW, The Print

Martin,

I've had the periodic nozzle dropouts in the black (and cyan for some
reason) and I'm wondering if that was a prelude to this. Is there any
wear at all on the tubing leading to the black cart on your printer?
(This one has a small white spot with rough edges and maybe some vinyl flakes\ufffd)

That corner of the printer housing has a definite droop so I'll probably
cut the thing off. Hadn't prior to this because I didn't want to do
anything destructive to the printer. But the vision of ink spewing out
of a hole worn in the tubing for the 30-40 minutes it take to print an
image has me rethinking that. I might even go so far as to trash that
piece of tubing and cart and replace it with new.
Peter

Martin Wesley wrote:
> 
> Peter,
> 
> We have the same setup and while I have experienced the image
> degradation
> you describe a few times it was always due to a nozzle clog on the
> black
> cartridge which cleared up with a nozzle clean or two.
> 
> The install instruction with my NoMoreCart CIS had a warning about the
> black
> tube catching and they said to bend up the corner of the printer
> housing you
> are talking about to make sure it does not contact the tube. I did
> this but
> the plastic has a memory and tends to sink back down so I have
> periodically
> checked it and tugged on the housing to pull it back up again.
> 
> Maybe yours droops a bit more than the norm and you should consider
> cutting
> this corner off altogether. At least the tube didn't break!
> 
> Martin