Digital BW, The Print

Seem to have got it licked.
Windex on a paper towel to clean the underside of the heads.  
Sucked 2 OZ ink through each nozzle (after loosing vacuum - DOH!)
4 head aligment cycles (Still no idea what I'm doing, but aiming for 
the most 'continuous tone' seemed to be the thing to do???)
Cleaning, purging, singing God Save The Queen and my prints look 
great again, no banding PHEW!

Thanks for your help.

Steve.


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "scrber" 
<stephen.bate@m...> wrote:
> This sounds like a possible, it is with new-ish carts already, but 
> seems to have just 'happened'.  I will pull some ink through the 
> carts, re-install, re-purge, re-clean and re-try (don't you just 
love 
> it?....)
> Is it possible for the 'paper drive belt' to stretch?  I heard 
> something about a machine wear in this respect but I didn't think 
> this was a belt drive printer like the old 3000/1200?
> 
> Thanks for the advice.
> 
> Steve.
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Johnny 
Eades" 
> <jeades1@s...> wrote:
> > I had a similar instance of banding with the same printer and it 
> > turned out to be one of the chambers was not full of ink, but 
> rather 
> > full of foam. I sucked as much of the ink and foam out and put 
it 
> > back into the proper bottle of ink and then I went to the 
kitchen 
> > sink and simply injected water till it ran out of the cartridge 
> > clear. Then I taped over the air vent holes with electrical tape 
> and 
> > used a large syringe to suck out any remaining foam or water. 
After 
> > refilling the cartridge with ink; which this time was all ink in 
> the 
> > cartridge and not any foam; and have been printing all day 
today. 
> > Possibly one of your cartridges has accumulated too much foam. I 
> > don't know if this is a problem with CIS setups or not, but just 
> and 
> > idea.
> > 
> > Your friend in Photography,
> > 
> > Johnny Eades
> >