Digital BW, The Print

Martin and Tom

It's nice to know that the staining won't affect the colour balance 
of new inks.

I spend a lot of time on the road and my printer may go unused for 
several weeks at a time.  Once, I was away for 5 months.  Upon my 
return, I fired up my printer and got a perfect nozzle check.  I was 
lucky I guess.  Bearing in mind tales of blocked lines from Paul and 
others, I shouldn't tempt fate.  Luckily, here in the UK, 1160s have 
not been discontinued.

K2

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Martin Wesley" 
<mwesley250@e...> wrote:
> 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