Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Martin Wesley" 
<mwesley250@e...> wrote:
> Yesterday I had my first experience filling empty cartridges for my 
1280. 

Sorry Martin, I didn't mean it to sound like I was razzing on you in 
that last message. It's my nature to pull things apart and find out 
what's going on with a procedure or an object.

I had another thought. If you were not tightening the needle into the 
luer-lock syringe enough, it would cause you to have less vacuum AND 
foamy ink no matter how deep you drew from the bottle.

I use the needle sheath over the needle as a wrench and I carefully 
and firmly hand tighten the needle, twisting it into the syringe end. 
I also use the sheath to unscrew the needle. I only use finger 
pressure on the sheath, but I tighten/untighten it with a bit of 
force. You can test this by dipping just the needle end into H20 and 
drawing up the plunger- if you get lots of air, the luer-lock isn't 
tight enough.
Jim H.