Digital BW, The Print

Eric,
I had this same problem with an 1160 last year. It is is not difficult
to suck the foamy ink from the cart but it never did cure the problem.
MIS sent new carts and the problem continued. I gave up and pulled the
CIS out and installed MIS preloaded carts and they did not work
either. Then I installed the original Epson ink and everything was
immediately fine again. I gave up entirely and set up a 7000 with UT
ink and all is well. Now I am in the process of setting up a new 1280
with UT2 CIS. The ink is on the way and I have my fingers crossed that
I'm not making the same mistake as I did with the 1160. 
Wayne



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "e5bowman"
<e5bowman@y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> I recently installed an MIS UT7 CIS in my 1280.  It looked great 
> (after some fiddling) for a few days, but now it seems that no matter 
> what I do, I get nasty, inconsistent banding.  Nozzle checks are 
> really ugly, and if I do manage to get them "clean" before I run too 
> many cleaning cycles and have to let it sit, it will only print maybe 
> a few inches into the next print before you can see that it is 
> starting to drop nozzles again.  The next nozzle check will look 
> terrible.
> 
> I tried putting some Windex on the waste sponge and letting it sit 
> parked for a day and a half, and have re-aligned the heads, but this 
> is driving me nuts.  The prints looked fantastic at first, but I've 
> had it installed for less than a week and it is virtually unuseable 
> now.  I'm tired of wasting ink and paper.
> 
> I see on the MIS site that sometimes "foamy ink" may be a culprit, 
> and that they recommend sucking a bunch of ink through the cartridge 
> to purge the foam.  Anyone tried this with any success?  I'm really 
> frustrated...
> 
> Eric