Digital BW, The Print

MIS has an excellent section on their website about how to deal with
"clogs" in a CIS. Read it, follow it. Don't skip any steps, especially
those that deal with replacing the CIS carts with a new dye ink cart.
I'd bet that is going to solve your problems. 

Bob Michaels

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jnhugo"
<jacknadelle@h...> wrote:
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "njfranknj" 
> <kolwicz@e...> wrote:
> > 
> > Jack,
> > 
> > I've been using MIS CIS systems for about 3 years on an 1160 
> that's still
> > going, a 1200 whose printhead died (completely, unrelated to the 
> CIS
> 
> Thanks for the long reply- I think I know what you are talking about 
> but not sure...My previous cis I think was a niagra and I had almost 
> no problem with it. I replaced it with the unit Mis sales now and 
> the carts came attached to the tubes, pre-filled, and theoretically 
> ready to go. On my first clog I had a complete no black ink 
> situation- Mis suggested it might be foam and described a fix 
> similar to what you describe- I was unable to draw ink thru the 
> bottom of the cart- I must have been doing it wrong but there was no 
> way for me to pull ink from the bottom-it was as if i put my finger 
> tip on the syringe and tried to pull air thru my skin-
> nothing...could not get the syringe plunger to even draw...
> I wound up replacing the carts and tubes with another pre filled set 
> up and now within a month the yellow position is missing...all other 
> positions are fuctioning -mostly- they show up on a nozzle check and 
> then disappear again...I'll study your reply- I must be missing 
> something..thanks again
> Jack