Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "lyonscox" <lyonscox@m...> 
wrote:
> I have a 1270, PC, MIS Vm inks. EclipseBrightcubeSoftwhite in 
300gsm.
> 
> Picture I'm printing has a very subtle solid field of color.  In 
that 
> area I am seeing some marks which I now take to be the rollers at 3" 
> and 3.5" in from the right side (when facing the print feed out).  
> I'd say this is equivalent to a 3000 pizza wheel problem except the 
> area in question is slightly darker...so I'm not sure if I'm 
tracking 
> ink along the print like dirt into the house?
> 
> I mopped up some ink that had oversprayed on an earlier test in the 
> center portion of the printer...ran a cloth along the main roller 
and 
> the smaller rollers adjacent to it by pressing the paper feed.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 

Just had a novel cleaning experience with my 1160. There is a bank of 
light gray rollers set in a white nylon matrix running parallel to, 
and just below, the steel rod on which the cartridges ride 
(nomorecarts CIS, MIS FM inks). A couple of these rollers have been 
picking up ink and marking the print. Of course I assumed something in 
the paper drive was inking up and passing it on to the rollers. 
However, I discovered that the SIDE of the cartridge vehicle was wet 
with ink and passing it to some few of the rollers as it travelled 
back and forth. Sorry I can't be more specific; the smear was on the 
inboard side, which can't be seen. At any rate, a Windex-dampened 
strip of the blue shop towels already mentioned by a member as a 
perfect cleaning material may be easily slipped up alongside the 
vehicle and gently moved back and forth to eliminate the trouble. 
In my experience with the 1160, this blue paper toweling (dampened 
with Windex, of course) may be moved across the heads with no trace of 
lint or particles (rather than passing the heads laboriously over the 
dampened towel laid in the recess below the heads). Seems to do a much 
more thorough job of cleaning. And now I'll take a couple of swipes up 
along the inboard side of the cartridge vehicle as well.
Bob Bollini
> Haven't tried windex...read that it was used by never really paid 
> attention to how.
> 
> Thanks,
> Cleavis