Digital BW, The Print

Paul

Do you know whether the resetter requires modification for the 2200 carts?

Thanks

Steve


> From: Paul Roark <paul.roark@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:59:58 -0800
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] refill-friendly carts?
> 
> 
> 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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