Digital BW, The Print

Bill,

Great point about sucking the ink right out of the cartidges using a 
food sealer! Keeping the ports sealed on the cartridge is critical 
and not so easy.

Howard

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "yanceyiv" 
<bvaughn4@k...> wrote:
> 
> Aaron
> 
> Be careful with the food sealer. I think it has way too much 
vacuum. 
> I placed my MIS UT inkset in a bag to keep them from drying out, 
> intending to leave them only a few days and when drawing the air 
out 
> with a straw - ink began to run out of the cartridges. Now I have 
a 
> huge mess inside the bag. Trying to decide whether to write it off 
> or clean them up.
> 
> I had thought of using the sealer earlier - sure glad I didn't do 
> it. 
> 
> Bill
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron Good" 
> <agood214@c...> wrote:
> > Thanks - all these noobie type questions I'm asking 
> > 
> > it's currently just one cartridge, but it's good to know "best 
> practices" going in.
> > 
> > This would give me a great reason for getinng the vacum sealer -
>  "but honey I have to save money on ink !" - although if the cart 
> was not fully sealed - wouldn't it pull ink out the exit port when 
> you vacum seal ?
> > 
> > I hadn't thought about bacteria, is that with all inks, dye or 
> pigment,  or only certain ones - I'm using the MIS EZ inks - are 
the 
> materials in here more (or less, or equally) prone to bacterial 
> buildup ?
> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >   From: hmseattle2004 
> >   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
> >   Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 5:25 PM
> >   Subject: Re: [Digital BW] longevity of a cartirdge hat's been 
> partiall used
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >   This is a good question, that I wish I had asked when I first 
> >   archived some partially used ink cartridges.
> > 
> >   Basically there are two issues you need to deal with
> > 
> >   1) Evaporation (which is obvious) and,
> >   2) Bacteria growth (which, at least for me, wasnt initially 
> obvious)
> > 
> >   You can slow evaporation by sealing a cartridge in a well 
> evacuated 
> >   plastic bag, but, this will not prevent bateria from  growing 
> within 
> >   the ink itself. If bacteria forms, you'll be able to tell 
> because 
> >   the ink will become *stringy* (which is actually the 
bacteria!). 
> You 
> >   can slow the growth in several ways: placing it in a well 
> evacuated 
> >   plastic bag, seal all the ports on the cartridges and put in a 
> cool 
> >   place (think of it as a piece of meat - but DONT freeze it!). 
> This 
> >   could keep a cartridge for up to a year (I've done it with ok 
> >   success), but its not guaranteed, and different inks are prone 
> to 
> >   bacteria growth at different rates.  You can also try to 
*seal* 
> the 
> >   cartridge in a food storage vacuum sealer (for instance 
> something 
> >   like http://www.cooking.com/products/shprodde.asp?
SKU=302042) , 
> >   which, in theory, will slow evaporation and bacteria better 
than 
> >   just a platic bag. Of course, if its just a cartridge or two, 
it 
> >   just easier and cheaper to not risk gumming up your print head 
> and 
> >   buy fresh cartridges... or print more often :->
> > 
> >   Hope this helps.
> > 
> >   Howard
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >   --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron 
> Good" 
> >   <agood214@c...> wrote:
> >   > Anyone have any tips on how t best store a partially used 
> cart ?
> >   > 
> >   > Thanks
> >   > 
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