Digital BW, The Print

Dear Jim
thank You very much for your skilled answer, I think I will go on 
with MIS products; now i'm expecting the products back form MIS and 
some explication by them.

Best regards.

Corrado
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jim hayes 
<jimhayes@f...>" <jimhayes@f...> wrote:
> 
> 
> I can only partially help. Your problem may be due to other causes 
but 
> here are some thoughts-
> 
> When I used a 1280 and filled my own carts with VM ink, I never had 
> problems with ink running out too early. However, the chip that MIS 
> sells separately to assemble onto the cart was, unlike the ones on 
> Epson carts, suseptible to getting zapped in two different ways: 1) 
In 
> handling, either through touching with my finger or under physical 
> force when installing onto cart; 2) Much more common, the chip can 
> lose it's "mind" if cart is inserted into printer with power on. 
Then 
> the ink status will never again read properly for that chip. The 
> solution is to touch grounded metal before handling chip, and to 
turn 
> printer off (letting head return to right position, press off 
button) 
> and UNPLUG. Wait one minute. Then press down on white vertical post 
> near bottom front left of printhead (or an alternate method which I 
> haven't tried is to turn the white gear on the back left of 
printer) 
> and release the printhead, dragging it all the way to the left. 
Swap 
> out cart for the MIS cart and push head back to right. The white 
post 
> won't pop up again though until you plug in printer and turn it 
back 
> on.
> 
> Cutting power to printer is not nessecary if installing the chips 
that 
> come on real Epson carts, I've found.
> 
> When I bought prefilled carts from MIS, and I only bought one or 
two 
> sets in my experience, I had a problem with one color cart which 
ran 
> out of ink when the ink level from the chip was at about 30% left. 
> Since then I just kept filling my own carts using the vacuum fill 
> method. I wrote up a procedure on how to do this which is quite 
> lengthy I'm afraid<g>. It is in the file section of this group as a 
> pdf. It really isn't hard to learn, and after you invest in  all 
the 
> reusable stuff to fill yourself, I calculated that I could make my 
own 
> carts for 1/2 the cost (US) I could buy them from MIS.
> 
> MIS IS a good choice. Paul Roark has worked up a great set of 
curves 
> and inksets, although I gather that he is off now on the next 
> generation which will be offsprung from the idea of the new Epson 
> Ultrachrome inks. I am not an expert in how the new generation is 
> coming along as I have some current restrictions as to what ink 
works 
> in my environment.
> 
> My impression of MIS, and this is only a personal one, is that it 
is 
> the way to go for those that don't mind "hands-on" experimenting a 
> little more, in the way of both tweaking Paul's curves to taste, 
maybe 
> filling your own carts , having to do a couple of extra steps now 
and 
> then, etc. Other solutions like Piezo or Epson2200/ with Imageprint 
5 
> have more of the work done for you. Of course one good thing to MIS 
is 
> that you can buy just about ALL the small parts that go into their 
> products: if you want to mix your own ink or build your own bulk 
ink 
> delivery system to printer, you can. And MIS will be a little 
cheaper 
> than other solutions. Customer support is very good.
> Jim H.   
> 
> --- In 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "parrellacorrado 
> <corrado_parrella@b...>" <corrado_parrella@b...> wrote:
> > I tried to employ MIS cartridges on my 1290 EPSON printer in 
order 
> to 
> > have a quality B/N printout. I received two sets one QFS and one 
> QVM.
> > The QFS one has the black cartridge not recognized by the printer 
> > driver, the QVM one after five printouts (quiet good) seems to be 
> > empty even if the level displayed is at 75%! MIS e-mailed anwers 
> that 
> > they can change the products.
> > Does anybody have had such experiences with MIS product?
> > Is MIS product a good choice for B/W quality prints?
> > 
> > Thanks for an answer.
> > 
> > Corrado