> > are the holes (vent ?) on the top of the MIS CFS carts meant to be > > open/exposed or taped shut ? > Shut. The off-center holes in the bottle lids are the vents for the > CFS. > > The vent holes on ANY system need to be placed: > printhead/cart--->ink--->vent in general. For a standard non CFS cart, > having the vent in top of cart does not violate this rule as the ink > is ALL below the vent physically. > > In a CFS the ink is in bottles: printhead--->cart--->tubing--->ink in > bottom of bottle---->air vent above ink in bottle. > > If you indroduce a vent hole between the cart and tubing which opening > up these holes in a CFS effectively does you will get air in > tubing/carts/head as the siphoning action is broken, i.e. an air leak. > Jim H. Thanks Jim.
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Re: Holes on top of CFS carts open or closed ?
2003-01-25 by frankg_photo <fh.gross@sympatico.ca>