Digital BW, The Print

I haven't used the jet jrano carts-are they made for pigmented 
inks? If so they are probably a better choice than the oem carts. 
The purge prints with the dry print head is the worst thing you can 
do. It can damage the print head crystals -think dry heaves. The head 
works by pushing not pumping so if the ink isn't right in the nozzles 
it wont flow. Your better off with head cleanings and rest periods.
The 10 days to dryness is a bit alarming. The head is capped when you 
shut the printer down so it shouldn't be drying out. How's the 
humdity in your area? That said there may be some sort of pull back 
by the CIS system caused by cycles of heating and cooling. Or the 
head isn't getting sealed correctly. The next time you don't plan on 
using the printer for awhile you might want to try disconnecting the 
CIS tubes and leave the cartridges in the printer to sit in a more 
static environment. Some tubing is notorously bad at letting water 
evaporate right though it-usually takes a few months though not days. 

Jeff

> working great.  If 10 days of inactivity can do this much damage, I 
> might need to find another way of printing B&W.  Do black only 
> prints out of the better Epson printers, the 5500, 7000, 9000 or 
> 10000 look any better then the black only prints out of the 1280?
> 
> Thanks again for any advice.
> Justin Smith