Digital BW, The Print

Are you using a CFS? You might try the MIS website for info 
concerning problems with foam and how to deal with them.

Chris Hargens

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, michael meyer 
<mikenmeyer@y...> wrote:
> 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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