Digital BW, The Print

I guess switching over to the 1270 is not going to fix my problem.  
When I say my house is climate controlled, I mean that it is 
always air conditioned, but we do run a humidifier quite a bit 
because my wife and I are pretty sensative to dry air.  I live in 
Tampa,FL, so dry air is rarely an issue.
I am expecting to receive some tubing and more Jet Jrano fluid 
in the mail today, and I am certainly going to try the suction and 
pressure methods described last week.  I'll let you know how it 
turns out.  In the meantime I have OEM carts sitting in the printer, 
and every couple of days I run a nozzle check, and I still haven's 
seen anything yet.

DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "iwasnvrhere" 
<iwasnvrhere@y...> wrote:
>   Both printers have a 4 picoliter drop size so I don't think you'll 
> have any better luck switching.
>  When you say "climate control" is this an air conditioner or 
> something that can control humidity? If it's the former it may be 
> turning your room into a dessicator thereby drying out your 
inks. If 
> it's the latter and you can control the humidity I would check to 
see 
> where it's set. 
> As far as fixing the clogged nozzles goes, have you tried the 
more 
> extreme measure I gave you last week? From what I've read in 
your 
> replies it sounds like you initially had a drying clog in the black 
> that got compounded when you you reprimed the CIS 
system-then all the 
> channels shut down -am I close? So what your dealing with is 
an air-
> locked and clogged printhead. 
> Most remedies you've been given will only handle the clog or a 
minor 
> air entrapment but not both. You'll either need to do something 
a 
> little more extreme or have the head fixed at a shop. Since your 
at 
> the point of replacing it anyway you can't make it worse right? 
So 
> this is what I would do: Take the carts out of printer and attach 
> tubing filled with flushing fluid or a 50/50 simple green/distilled 
> water mix right on the printhead port. Make sure there's no air 
in 
> the tubing. This is really easy if you have a syringe. Then use 
> GENTLE pressure THEN suction in a back and forth manner 
just like you 
> would do to a clogged toilet. Keep at it until it feel like you can 
> push fluid though the head-try and get 2-3ml though. Do that to 
all 
> the offending heads. Then put OEM carts in and check your 
nozzles. IT 
> may take a few head cleanings to get everything going. If that 
> doesn't fix the problem the printer is beyond help and you can 
> confidently take to the shop and say its dead. I've done this with 
my 
> 3000 and it works 2/3 of the time. It depends on how bad the 
clog is. 
> But when works it works great.
> 
> "Try it and you may like it" -Dr Soos
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "smithj72" 
<smithj72@y...> 
> wrote:
>  
> > Jerry Olsen did not write the above passage on 4-15-02, I  
wrote 
> > that passage about a week ago.  I took the cartridges out 
while I 
> > was trying to clean the heads with Jet Jrano fluid I bought 
from 
> > MIS, not while I was away.  
> > For what its worth, it has been a week and a half since I first 
had 
> > this problem, and still nothing fires at all.  I did try to flush 
> with 
> > OEM cartridges and flushing fluid and still nothing.  It looks 
like 
> > warrenty replacement again for me.  The new printer will be 
my 
> > third in less than one year.  I am thinking of switching my 
B&W 
> > ovet to the 1270.  Maybe the fact that it only prints at 1440 
means 
> > it has slightly larger nozzles and will clog less frequently?  I 
do 
> > live in Florida, but my home is always climate controlled and I 
> > can't believe I am having so many clogging problems.  The 
wet 
> > darkroom doesn't look to bad after all this...
> > Justin Smith