Digital BW, The Print

To the list:

I recently fired up my 1160 with quad-tone MIS inks in user-filled carts 
that I hadn't used since June. First nozzle check had a few gaps. I topped 
up the cartridges, ran a couple of cleaning cycles, printed a purge page, 
got a good nozzle check, and proceeded to print a dozen or so satisfactory 
13×19s. That was after five months down time.

Incidentally, I also restarted my 1200 (with MIS color inks in user-filled 
carts) that I hadn't used since last April. That was more of a problem. No 
amount of cleaning and purging produced a good nozzle check. I ended up 
attaching a piece of shrink-fit tubing to a syringe filled with cleaning 
fluid that I'd purchased from a local ink supplier and (having heat shrunk 
the tubing to fit tightly on the nipples in the cartridge well) injected 
half a CC or so of fluid into each nipple. I slid a piece of blotter paper 
under the head which minimized the mess. It took a couple of tries, but 
after the second injection my nozzle check was much improved. I filled a 
new cartridge and ran a couple of cleaning cycles. After letting the 
printer sit for a couple of hours I got a good nozzle check and proceeded 
to print five or six 13×19s.

I've never installed a CIS since I knew that I'd probably let my printers 
sit unused for months at a time and feared the consequences of evaporation, 
dried ink in the tubes, and deteriorating sponges in the dedicated CIS 
cartridge. I was gratified to find that even after half a year I could get 
my printers back up and running. The 1160 was particularly easy.

-- Victor Landweber


At 10:07 PM 12/16/2002 +0000, you wrote:

>I'm going to be traveling for several months, and unfortunately my 1160 may
>have to stay behind, boxed up with no one to look after it. Fortunately I 
>don't
>have a CIS yet -- I use carts (FS-N at the moment).
>
>I was thinking I'd get some of InkJetMall's cleaning carts, flush it 
>really well,
>and then store it without any carts in it at all. Is this the best way to go?
>
>Thanks,
>Peter
>
>
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