Digital BW, The Print

At 11:52 AM 11/17/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi Group, if anybody has had this problem, please e mail me and let me 
>know how you solved it.
>
>Just installed generations inks and a CIS system. Everything went fine, 
>the inks all went into their respective
>cartridges just like they should have, in less than a second.
>
>But there is a 10 " air gap in the photo cyan tube, and it won't go 
>down.  The printer has sat overnight, and it
>hasn't gone down a millimeter.
>
>All ink bottles have the same level, so the cartridge must be full of ink.
>
>When I squeeze the bottle slightly, the ink fills the tube right away, 
>but as soon as I let up on it, air fills the
>tube again.
>
>Can anything be done short of getting yet another color cartridge?  This 
>would be the third defective cartridge I've
>had in the past 3 months.
>
>However the other two exhibited the air gap problem with all the colors, 
>so the entire cartridge was defective.  In
>this case it's only the one color.
>
>Jerry
>

Jerry,

Sounds like an air leak. I've been making my own CIS units with parts from
MIS. I use silicon RTV adhesive/sealer to seal vent holes and elbow
connections. try dabbing some of that on the leaky cart.  

AZ

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