Digital BW, The Print

hey all. i have been using my epson 890 with MIS' FS
inkset in carts, which i have been refilling,
successfully for the past month or so. 

while my results have been good, i still have a long
way to go. 

but now i have run into a problem. i have
occassionally had clogged heads that a cleaning cycle
will take care of. but i left my printer idle for a
couple of days, turned on, and now the photo cyan head
isn't putting out any ink. 

i made a print that looked like crap. did a nozzle
check and found the black ink wasn't shooting any ink.
so i did a cleaning cycle. the next nozzle check
showed that the black was now perfect, but that the
photo cyan position ink wasn't doing anything.
nothing. 

so i ran a print through to maybe get it going. still
no good. another nozzle check, cleaning cycle and
nozzle checks no improvement. thinking, incorrectly
now that i think about it, that maybe i had missed
refilling that ink when i had done the last refill i
switched to a fresh cartridge. let the cart sit in the
printer 2-3 hours then ran a nozzle check. still, the
photo cyan position is putting out no ink. 

i am letting the printer sit overnight. hopefully this
will fix itself. but i am not sure it will. 

i am thinking it is probably air in the print head. is
this possible or probable? anything else it might be?
solutions? someone mentioned once a procedure
involving a syringe and a short length of tubing...
might this procedure work here? anything else i might
try? 

this is the first real problem i have come up against
in my month or so of digi b&w printing. i would like
to get past it. all thoughts appreciated. 

thanks in advance.

michael meyer

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