I recently revived my old 1160, which I had a CIS hooked up to with VM inks. Due to underuse over the last year, things had clogged up pretty thoroughly. I tossed the old carts and tubes, and after cleaning the nozzles (a big job!) and getting good clean nozzle checks with color ink carts, I installed new UT-filled carts with tubes from MIS, attached to new bottles of UT. Didn't take long before I passed nozzle checks, at which point I printed some pics using Paul's latest UT curves for the 1160 from the MIS site (the UT11 curves, on EAM). The results were very blue (I assume heavy on toner). Even using the UT11-W1 curve. In fact, I could tell no difference in tone between the 4 different curves. The light-to-midtones in all were tinted a strong blue. The toner is printing in the Magenta position when I print a purge page. However, the toner in the bottle (obvious - it's blue) is labeled Yellow, and I connected it to the tube leading to the yellow chamber of the ink cart. Can I conclude that MIS preloaded these carts incorrectly, putting toner in the Magenta chamber, and the lightest black ink in the Yellow chamber? If someone could confirm the UT toner should be in the yellow position with 4-color printers, I'd appreciate it. MIS doesn't show swabs for 4-color UT systems on their swab page, so I couldn't confirm it there. Toner was in the yellow position with VM inks, as I recall. Assuming this is the problem, I guess I'll have to wait another week to get my carts replaced before I can print :(. Neil S.
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1160, UT and PS 5.5 - Am I blue?
2004-01-17 by nsimms
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