Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "K2 Chittin" <k2lists@h...> 
wrote:
> I spoke to Bob Zeiss at MIS a couple of hours ago about something 
and 
> asked him about what Jim Hayes mentioned: topping up the carts 
> without having a CFS.
> 
> Bob said that they use CFSes at MIS but related to what Jim was 
> talking about.  Check out this page on the MIS site.  
> 
> http://www.inksupply.com/index.cfm?source=html/sponge.html
> 
> As you'll see, it's not a topping up procedure as we originally 
> speculated.
> 
> K2

Yeah, I guess not. If you could fill from the top, it would be close 
to what I was imagining I heard (I have some hearing loss and 
telephones can be a problem getting 100% of the words in<g>).

I'm wondering why you still couldn't just fill from the top. Only 
thing I can think of is it might trap more air, causing foamy ink. Or 
if a long needle was used so that the ink exited near the bottom port, 
past the sponge?

The other advantage not mentioned to this method is that you can get 
carts with poppet valves on them, if you can't find a 3rd party 
source. With all the work involved though, you'd have to be pretty 
desperate.
Jim H.