Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Lindman" <plindman@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] CIS Mishap


> 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.)

Peter,

No wear marks on mine yet. The occurrence of clogs does seem to be
increasing with time. I may decide to change out the cartridge end of the
CIS and see if that helps.
>
> 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.

Mine droops too but it clears the small piece of black tubing by 1/16". If
it broke you would get some ink spillage into the printer but probably not a
huge amount since the system would loose vacuum and might just start sucking
air in. Probably would run out once the printing stopped.

If you do cut it off, please post how it went and what you use.

Thanks,
Martin

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