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cis or CIS? (was Re: [Digital BW] Please Help if you can! CIS - Big Problem with large air gap in cyan ink tube)

2002-11-17 by Sam A. McCandless

Jerry -

Is this MediaStreet's "knock off" cis (Niagara Something) or 
NoMoreCarts' real CIS?

Sam


>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

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