Digital BW, The Print

At 09:54 AM 10/19/2002, you wrote:
>Oh dear, the thing i worried about the most has happened with my 1160 with
>MIS CFS installed. Last time I printed was about 2 weeks ago, then when i
>tried printing tonight, the black has stopped printing, i tried a few
>cleaning cycles and nozzle checks to no avail, it seems that the black ink
>simply isnt passing through the tube, what could be wrong? the vacuum has
>been compromised??
>
>What should I do next?

I had this happen once. Try following the recovery procedure on the MIS 
website. Basically, you remove the cartridge and use a syringe to suck ink 
through the bottom of the cartridge, then empty the syringe back into the 
bottle. After I did this for a few syringe's worth of ink, I started 
getting flow on my nozzle checks. Then a few cleaning cycles later I was 
printing perfectly.

I just recently returned from a 2.5 week trip to find that my 1280 with Gen 
5 inks and Niagara CIS printed a perfect nozzle check the first time and 
the 1270 with the MIS-VM inks and CFS required one cleaning cycle to print 
a perfect nozzle check. I live in Orem, Utah, and we're in the midst of a 
four-year drought, so I'm not sure that low humidity has much to do with 
failures in continuous inking systems. Or, then again, maybe I'm just lucky.

Stan

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