Digital BW, The Print

> 
> The hoses are beginning to fill but not completely there yet. I am 
about to take off the 
> head cover and use the syringe to bring ink into the dampers, or 
at least look at them. I 
> have some cleaning carts but they are getting very low in a couple 
of channels too.
> 
> But, I'm still not sure about putting piezzo inks on top of the 
dye inks in the lines.
> 
> john

DO NOT mix pigments with the dyes in the lines! If you are taking 
the dampers off anyway, put the remains of your cleaning carts in, 
pull cleaning fluid into the dampers with a syringe, then switch to 
the pigs, and pull some of that ink into the lines to where the 
pigment is JUST getting to the damper. You can do both in one step, 
and you can empty out and refill your cleaning cart with windex if 
you're running low. And there's no reason with you can't do this one 
ink at a time using only one cleaning cart- you could transfer the 
contents of all of them into one if you're running low and don't 
trust Windex. After you have the pigments just getting to the 
dampers, put it all back together and do 4-5 cleaning cycles to 
flush the cleaner through the heads, then do a test print. You 
should be up and running in under an hour if you don't stop for 
lunch or a beer!

Steve Karafyllakis