Digital BW, The Print

To those following this thread, I determined the source of the problem with
the very prompt help from ³help@...².


Simple answer: Read the freaking manual.

It was so long ago when I initially installed my CIS that I forgot to prime
the system before seating the sealed carts in the print head. By seating the
carts I punctured the (dry) seal and thereby cannot get a good vacuum.
Tonight I will try taping up the carts and trying again, otherwise I have
another set of unused carts that I can use.

Thanks for all of your input.

James Haney





> 
> From: "Martin Wesley" <mwesley250@...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:52:35 -0700
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] CIS problems
> 

> 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:
> 
>> >
>> > That¹s 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 can¹t 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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