Digital BW, The Print

Puddling huh?

I had that happen on my 1200 with the black ink and wondered what happend. I 
learned soon enough: The black ink bottle was empty, and it stopped printing 
entirely. But why the puddle? From your post I guesss I've learned that when there is 
no ink to pull in (just air) the ink flows too quickly through the cartridge.

Oh, how I fixed it.

I pulled the carts, and then found I had many colors where the ink had gone back in 
the bottles, and a lot of air in the lines.

I made sure each bottle had enough ink and then used a syringe to suck ink out of 
the hole in the cart that goes on the print head. When I pulled through a substantial 
quantity of ink, I squirted it back in the resevoir bottle (careful not to mix colors).

I ran about 5 cleaning cycles and I'm back in business.

-bruce

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "byushooter" <jellerbe@j...> 
wrote:
> This is a copy of an email I sent to IJM last Monday.  I still 
> haven't gotten a response from them and am wondering if anyone here 
> can help me?  Please?!
> 
> "I am installing two CIS units using Piezotone inks on Epson 
> 1160's.  I installed the first CIS without difficulty and other than 
> banding, it works correctly.  However, I attempted to install the 
> second CIS and am having difficulty.  The tubing from the CIS seemed 
> to be too short.  If the print head went all the way to the left, 
> the line was pulled taut.  I moved the velcro part over and it was 
> then too short to go all the way to the right.  In order to do 
> further adjustment, I removed the cartridges from the printer.  The 
> ink from two of the lines (the black cart and one of the color 
> lines) flowed back into the bottles and the lines are now filled 
> with air.  I have tried printing the flush image file twice but the 
> ink in those two lines has not moved.  And the ink that does make it 
> to the paper has a very heavy flow, puddling on the paper.
> 
> Is there a way to renew the vacuum and fill those two lines?  If 
> not, how do I fill them with ink?  What is causing the puddling?"
> 
> Thanks for any advice you can offer.