Digital BW, The Print

Steve, all I asked is if anyone who was using the Eboni black had
experienced any problems. Nothing more. The ink has been available on
their site since 3 March. Banding problems can be caused by many things
other than ink.
I have just now traced my own problem to a bad vacuum pump. When I
refilled, using the very first pump I got with my first CIS system about
6 years ago, everything worked fine, I THINK. At least all the ink
chambers are now totally full, as seen by the eye, and the ink in the
bottles went down much further than they did the first time, using the
new pump; also there is now no air that can be seen in any of the ink
tubing. I've examined them closely, and there's not even an air bubble
in there!

I'll let the system set over night before I install it into the printer
and see if it will work now.
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I'm sorry if I was too soon with my question, but I thought that was the
whole purpose of beta testing, to see what other people's results are? 
I never said a word about the ink being bad. I was simply wondering if
anyone had my problems. In MY case, it was a bad vacuum pump.

> About your CIS problem; you asked if a complete vacuum was
> neccessay, and I don't recall anyone answering that directly. If you
> have any air leaks in the system anywhere except at the vent hole in
> the bottle, the system will not work, 

Assuming the problem was the pump, and there are no air leaks anywhere,
would the fact that the cartridges were totally saturated with ink be
ok, as long as there were no air in the cartridges and no leaks anywhere else?

Jerry