Digital BW, The Print

AS far as I understand ho all the printers operate, the hardware knows 
perfectly well what printer it is and it calls for the particular 
driver.  If you supply the dye based ink to the pigment printer (if they 
fit at all) it will assume that the right pigment inks are present (or 
maybe chip in the carts will tell the printer that it's a wrong set of 
inks) and print distributing the ink as it was pigmented ink.
So, no matter how you cut it it will not work properly IMHO.

Good luck anyway,
Jack

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error516 wrote:

> My 1270 hit the dirt the other day, I thought about donating it to 
> Goodwill but then
> that would be a black cloud over my head. I just know some poor sucker 
> would pay
> $100.00 or so dollars at Goodwill only to find out that the Print Head 
> is shot.
> Replacement price is around $200.00 for a print head, I found this out 
> the other day
> when I took it in for repair.
> So the reason I write is to ask this question, does anyone know if the 
> 2000p will work
> with a different ink cart set (1270 perhaps). I found out that both 
> the 1270 and the
> 2000p use the same head. My big brain tells me that they should be 
> able to use the
> same inks too then, or maybe the cart carriage is a little different. 
> The reason I would
> like to know is, I have to buy a new printer to go with the New MIS 
> system I just
> bought for my 1270 before the head quit. I thought I could get a 2000p 
> for dirt cheap
> and use my Mis system with the 2000p.
> Something else, since these 1270 printers are starting to die and it 
> seems like only
> one color on the head always goes out. Maybe there is a solution to 
> turn it into a
> quad tone ink set up and get every inch of life out of the little beast.
>
> Please excuse my knowledge of how printers work, I can only master so 
> many things
> in my lifetime.
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