Digital BW, The Print

James,

As Jim says this is a new one. I am curious as to what method you used to
fill the new CIS carts? Is it possible the old tubing no longer fits tightly
on the inlet nipples on the cartridges?

I recently took apart and old 1200 CIS that I wasn't using and cleaned it
up. I noticed that the tubing had gotten a bit stiffer with age and that the
ends I pulled off the cartridges stayed a flared. The tubing was a bit
sludged up too when I rinsed it out. I suspect that in addition to replacing
the CIS carts occasionally it may be advisable to replace the tubing as
well. It seems like you might need to change everything but the support arm
and the bottles.

In your case if the tubing is loose where it connects to the cartridges you
might try gluing the tubing to the cartridge attachment points with silicon
caulking or something more permanent.

Martin Wesley
http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html



----- Original Message -----
From: "jimhayes361" <jimhayes@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] CIS problems


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., James Haney <jhaney@m...>
wrote:

>
> That\ufffds just it, I get absolutely nothing when I print. The
cartridges will
> not create a vacuum so no ink is getting in there to make a print.
There is
> no output, no ability to do a nozzle check. The ink lines have air
bubbles
> in them and I can\ufffdt draw ink into the cartridge.
>
> James
> jhaney@m...
>

Although I've had more than my share of CIS problems, I've never had
to correct this problem. With that as a disclaimer, I'm going to
recomend that you explore the MIS site, where they give instructions
on how to correct this in a CFS unit- I think they would be similar
enough.

I don't know the exact page but if you hunt around enough in the CFS
instructions, maybe FAQ's on the CFS, somewhere they describe how to
cure a similar problem.

Basically, the idea as I understand it is to get some of MIS "bottom
fill adapters" and stick them on a 10-60 cc syringe. Then you suck ink
out of the bottom of the offending color/cart. It starts coming out
foamy, or full of air bubbles. You eject the full syringe back into
the bottle so you waste little ink, and repeat the sucking out of ink,
then ejecting into bottle, etc. When the ink gets sucked out with no
bubbles any longer, MIS contends about ten fills of a 10cc syringe,
you put the cart back in and away you go.

At least I think that's it, from memory. Check out the site, worth a
shot anyway.
Jim H.



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