Digital BW, The Print

Hi Jeff,

It seems that nobody quite answers this question, even when they 
directly reply to it ;)

By searching the archives with "clean parking pads", I found this:

quote:

"I succesfully cleaned parking pads today and installed my first MIS
UT filled cartridges. I would like to share with you my findings:

1. Cleaning of parking pads with paper tower, was easy. First was
just placing paper towel on pads to soak as much ink as it could.
Than by siringe with litle hose on syringe I put few drops of warm
water. Than soak with paper towel this. Than parking pad was turning
to white grey color as more and more black ink was soak to towel. At
the end towel didn't take almost any color."

Sounds good to me...

I have a question that you may know the answer to. I'm about to 
install a CIS with UT inks in an 1160 too. My question was in a 
separate post, but here goes:

"Hi,

I'm wondering if you need to maintain the vacuum in the tubing lines
after filling the CFS carts (after the ink 'surges' to the carts and
the ink tube is 'at least 1" in the bottle'). I understand that I
let the sponges soak up the ink overnight, but then I'm instructed
to put the caps (with the tube and vent holes) on the bottles... Am
I supposed to somehow maintain the vacuum while:

1. pulling the tube out of the bottle,
2. capping the bottle with the drilled cap,
3. cutting the excess slack out of the lines,
4. marking the tubes at 3 3/4", and
5. inserting the tubes through the caps and into the bottles?

If so, how? I've read everything I could find and it's probably so
obvious that no one felt it merited mention. I called tech support,
but I wanted to get started tonight (printing tommorrow!!! =)

details: 1160 MIS CFS with UT inks

Thank you so much for your help - this will be my first (hopefully)
working CFS...

Jim Batzer
dbatzer@c..."

Sorry for the long post...   =)

Thanks, 

Jim Batzer

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Magidson 
<jef.jef@v...> wrote:
> 
> 
> How does one clean the Parking pads?
> 
> I'm about to install UTs in a used 1160 that has been running with 
> Epson OEM ink in it for awhile.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 07:07 PM, Paul Roark wrote:
> 
> >
> > The problem I had with my 1280 that had dye in it first was the 
dye on 
> > the
> > parking pad itself, not the dye in the heads.  These were just 
nuisance
> > type, little clogs, nothing serious.  Cleaning the pads took 
care of 
> > them.