Digital BW, The Print

Jake,

>Did MIS change the design on their carts?

Frankly, they are at the mercy of their suppliers.  A large part of MIS's
job is to search the world for the best supplies, including the carts.  From
what I can tell these latest, poppet-valve, easy refill types are brand new.

>...If I can fill my carts this same way maybe this
>is my problem with the foam buildup.

I'm hopeful that these new carts will not have the foam problem.  I've
refilled a number of the new C86 carts and, so far, no problems. 

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com
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  -----Original Message-----
  From: Paul Roark [mailto:paul.roark@...]

  Richard,

  >Could you describe what makes certain cartridges "refill-friendly?"
  >Is this related to "poppets" you mentioned in another post?
  >(And what are they?)

  Take a look at
  http://www.inksupply.com/index.cfm?source=html/c82refill.html and
  http://www.inksupply.com/index.cfm?source=html/c84refill.html.

  (Where the C86 picture says to drill a hole, they are now pre-drilled, and
  there are little rubber "corks" that plug the hole until re-fill time.)

  To fill or re-fill these carts, all one does is pull the cork, squirt 13
cc
  of ink into the sponge-free reservoir, stick the cork back in, and re-set
  the chip.  This is really easy and cheap.  So far it is working extremely
  well with the C86 I'm using.  I don't know how long the carts will last,
but
  the system is essentially a CFS without the tubes.  The carts might last a
  year or more.

  (The latest version of Re-setter SK168 -- that turns from red to green --
is
  the recommended resetter.  It has a plastic guide that needs slight
  modification at least for the C86 carts -- 1 mm cardboard on the base to
  raise the cart, 5 mm sawed off the side of the guide to allow for a bulge
  the new carts have.  I've sent my recommendations to MIS.  With those
  modifications, it has successfully reset 100% of the time with the C86.)

  The poppet valve is similar to what Epson has had for some time, but the
  third party carts have lacked the better outlet valve.  It's a spring
valve
  as opposed to the older simple rubber gasket.  It allows me to, for
example,
  switch between Eboni matte K and PK at will, with perfect nozzle checks
  right off the bat.  Interchanging carts now becomes practical, it appears.
  I just tape the outlet of the cart that has been removed.

  So, these 2 advances, which affect the C86 carts (C84 included) and 2200
  carts (C82 included), make life for these desktop units much easier and
  cheaper.  I never liked the old re-filling, and I do not recommend bottom
  filling because it puts any junk in the ink on the wrong side of the
  sponge/filter.  With these new carts the built-in filters will always be
  able to do their job, which might allow our desktop units to live longer.

  Paul
  www.PaulRoark.com




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