Digital BW, The Print

Put a normal ink cart in there and run it for a while. Original ink might fix it. In the meanwhile, block ur cart up so it doesnt dry off.

Sam
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Chris Hargens 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 10:33 AM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] ink not coming out...


  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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