Digital BW, The Print

Hallo K2,

Yes, you must perform step 1 *if* you are going to fill the cart with 
another dye-ink or pigment-ink.
 
There are foam inserts in each chamber that holds the ink. It takes a 
lot of time using MIS flushing/cleaning outfit. (or your own invented 
one)
I do buy the "inlet knees" and the carts loose and put them together. 
The advantage with orginal cleaned Epson carts are the poppet valve 
(a spring + a ball that closes the cart when you take it out of the 
printer).

It takes ten minutes to drill, tap and glue the knees on. Don't 
forget to close the air-inlets on the cart with melt-glue. That's it!
(Special glue for the inlet knees - Loctite "Plastix" with activator 
and glue)

The other steps 2 to 4 is right. It's that simple.
You must not be the "master DIY" in your town to fix a CIS yourself!

If you are letting the printer stand for three weeks now and then, 
then I do recomend you to rip off the black tube and have that easaly 
taken away. I use some simple El-tape to tape that black tube to the 
others. Put a endglued 6 mm tube on the cart inlet(the knee) to close 
the black cart. 
Rise the black tube to empty it. Close all airinlets on the bottles. 
Go to holiday. Coming back - with a syringe suck black ink into the 
black tube and connect it again.
Print!
(The black PIEZO and MIS archival and pigmeted black inks evaporates 
through the tubes..)


Happy DIY - CIS'ing

Fiat Lux!

Bo Wrangborg
Sweden

 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "K2 Chittin" <k2lists@h...> 
wrote:
> Thanks Bo and Murray.  What started out as a question of curiosity 
> may well end up being far more beneficial!
> 
> I was doing some research on the latest on the CIS front for some 
> colleagues here in Europe.  Now I might recommend that they just 
make 
> their own CIS.  The question is, for someone who is technically and 
> DIY savvy, how complicated is it?  I presume you
> 
> 1. Clean out old Epson carts
> 2. Drill holes in the top of each colour chamber
> 3. Glue the little tube fittings and attach the tubing
> 4. Suck the ink into each chamber with a bottom fill adaptor
> 
> Do you even need to perform step 1?
> 
> I have enough printers and CISes so I won't be attempting this 
> surgical procedure anytime soon myself. :)
> 
> K2