Digital BW, The Print

The CFS and CIS tubes are made of different material- that may 
contribute.

Humidity here gets to 20% and I have endless problems. I even humidify 
to 45%RH but no dice.

So I switched to the 2200/IP5 and an amazing difference. Only 3 or 
four cleaning cycles TOTAL needed to get perfect nozzles in 2 1/2 
months of operation compared to cleaning cycles needed two- 8 times a 
week for 1280/VM roughly.

I have an idea why I got banding occuring in midprint six times with 
2200. The Epson driver everyso often makes a lot of cleaning cycle 
noise without being told to. I think it runs a cleaning cycle whenever 
it feels like it-built into Epson driver. If IP5 is used, the Epson 
driver isn't, except it sometimes makes noise when first turned on. 
Just a wild guess right now. But if IP5 doesn't call for a cleaning 
cycle now and then, maybe banding will suddenly occur. This is VERY 
infrequent, I am very happy with my 2200 wrt clogging. Running a purge 
pattern in draft mode with plain paper w/Epson driver before using IP5 
seems to be helping with the banding stuff...I note that it sometimes 
does a cleaning cycle noise during this.
Jim H.



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Harry Saddler 
<hsaddler@p...> wrote:
> I don't think it's air in the tubes; I haven't seen any. The CFS 
charging
> seemed perfect, and the tubes haven't been out of the ink since.
> 
> It has been somewhat dry here. I wonder if it's possible to keep 
some
> humidifying agent in the printer when I'm not using it?
> 
> Harry
> 
> >Like Jerry, clogs just are not a problem for me either. I've used 
MIS
> >VM inks in carts and currently using MIS FSN inks in a MIS CIS. 
> >
> >It may be humidity dependent. I live in FL where the humidity has
> >never been below 60% even inside in the winter with the heater
> >cranking. But then I think Jerry lives in North Dakota. 
> >
> >Bob Michaels
> >
> >--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jerry Olson
> ><jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> >> I never had had out of the ordinary clogs with MIS inks. Very 
rarely do 
> >> I get one. Are you sure it isn't
> >> air in your feed tubes?
> >> 
> >> Jerry