Digital BW, The Print

Well, you could try two different tricks:

1) MIS and maybe we-Ink too sell a plastic plug for the bottom of the 
cart chamber. It is a one use thing. It is not the metal Rivet sold by 
MIS, not the EZ-plug sold by nomorecarts. This is a big round plastic 
plug which MIS should still be selling (let's hope). Go to the MIS 
site and look under accesories. You shoe-horn this thing in and it is 
supposed to give a fairly good seal, or at least I heard it can-never 
tried it myself-look on the we-ink site for the same item and see if 
they still give direction for using the plug to do a vacuum refill on 
a used cart. Obviously I'm giving all this to you from memory, so 
check it out for yourself.

2) MIS has a procedure for getting rid of air or "foamy ink" in their 
carts/CFS. The procedure might be listed under CFS FAQ or some such as 
"recovery method". But you probably should have some ink in the carts 
to start out with. Basically you take a syringe and put a MIS "bottom 
fill adapter" on it and suck air/ink out through the bottom of the 
cart and return it to the bottle. Repeat many times until the ink 
in the drawing syringe has no bubbles left. I don't know whether this 
would help you or not- I have used it to clear a tiny bit of air out 
of my CFS with good results. It might be adaptable to your problem.

At anyrate, good luck,
Jim H. 






--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Mark Romine <klick3@g...> 
wrote:
> To achieve a vacuum with a CIS can this only be done once before the
> carts are installed or can a vacuum be achieved at any time after 
the
> carts have had their seal broken by installation? The reason for my
> asking I am in the process of installing new carts for my CIS and I 
am
> having trouble getting a vacuum with the new carts already 
installed.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
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