Digital BW, The Print

>>Doug, If I pulled, say 40 CCs of ink or so through the bottom of the CIS
cartridges to get them filled with ink, would that work?<<

Sorry to hear your still having problems.  The short answer to your question
is that I don't know.  At this point, it couldn't hurt.

Didn't I read that you just got these carts today?  If so and they aren't
working, pull the ink through them, then insert them in the printer and let
them sit until tomorrow afternoon before ever even using them.  That would
be my suggestion.

>>If you fill the cartridges this way, there probably won't be a true vacuum
in there, but the carts will certainly be saturated with ink.  Would you
HAVE to have a vacuum?<<

It has worked for me.  "Priming" may be a better term than vacuum.  My
theory was to get a bunch of ink in the cart so that when the print head
tries to charge with the new ink, there is plenty of ink in there to "prime
the pump."  If there isn't enough ink to fully saturate the sponge, I would
think it would be hard to "prime" things.  I am sure there are people on
this list who know the technical aspects better than I do, so I will let
them jump in and set us straight.

Doug