Digital BW, The Print

I had the same experience as Tom. I cleaned out my 14 month old 1200 CIS to
reuse the lines and arms for a 1280 and the PiezoTone inks. The CIS had been
out of the printer sitting idle for 9 months and the lines were pretty
sludged up especially close to the cartridge end. Some work with warm
running water, a syringe and compressed air cleaned everything up except for
some staining of the plastic tubing which does not seem to be signigificant.
If things are really hardened perhaps a soaking in water or soap and water
would loosen it up.

The tubing did seem a bit more rigid than a new CIS I bought recently and I
suspect that the plastic of the lines may be hardening with time and
exposure to the ink solvents. I should probably replace this portion of the
CIS in 6 months or so.

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



----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Keesling" <tom.keesling@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:13 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Cleaning Nomorecarts CIS tubes


> K2,
>
> I encountered a similar situation when I switched from the ill-fated Cone
> archival color inks to the MIS VM inks. The tubing was permanently stained
> with the various colors, but didn't present any sort of problem when I
> loaded the VM inks.
>
> I recently needed to replace the carts again and as a precaution installed
a
> new support arm and tubing. When I removed the old tubing, I immediately
> flushed the tubing with water. It still has the color staining from the
> original inks and shows no signs of clogging from the VM inks. It's in
great
> shape still and ready to use again.
>
> Tom Keesling
> Intelligent Design, Inc.