Digital BW, The Print

One bit of advice I've received is that the MIS ink may be
thinner than the UltraChome ink. It might be that the cleaning
cycle (a) squirts more ink out, since it was designed for
more viscous ink (b) actually introduces bubbles, which are the
probable cause of the "clog". Just speculation.

The Linux escputil program reported that my carts were 4% lower
after a single cleaning. I'm at 50% on all carts at this point.

I'm down to a couple of gaps in one head right now, and have
resigned myself to waiting until tomorrow morning, under the 
theory that whatever bubbles are in there need time to dissolve
back into the ink.

My gaps, unlike yours, seem relatively constant. Especially if you
just put the carts in, wait a few hours. It was 5-6 hours after
I first installed them before I got a clean nozzle check. (I also
did a "shakedown" on the carts as Epson recommends which could have
made matters worse.)

I'm assuming these are one-time changeover problems, not something
that occurs every time one puts a new cartridge in. That would be
unacceptable, and no one is reporting that.

david



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jsinger986" 
<jsphotos@t...> wrote:
> I'm having the same clogging problem.  I just installed my MIS UT 
inks on my 2200.  I 
> was getting clogs in random nozzles.  I would print a pattern and 
two nozzles would 
> be clogged.  I'd then immediatly print the pattern again without a 
cleaning and then a 
> different two nozzles would be clogged.  Then I'd print again 
without cleaning and 
> another two, etc, etc.  I've done many cleanings (already went 
through a quarter of 
> every cartridge) and still have the problem.  At the moment I have 
it down to one 
> nozzle (yellow position).
> 
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "David 
Wroblewski" 
> <dawroblewski@y...> wrote:
> > I'm not getting good nozzle checks on my 2200 with the 
> > UltraTone carts on day three of my switch.
> > 
> > I got excellent nozzle checks yesterday, but this morning my 
> > first check showed one pattern skipping, six good. After 3 
> > cleanings/nozzle checks (one of them a double cleaning) I now 
> > have three screwed up patterns. I seem to be making it worse.  
> > 
> > I've never had to deal with this before. Any advice? 
> > 
> > -david