Digital BW, The Print

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:54:56PM -0000, scottmcl2000 wrote:
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> 
> I'm using the C84 and EZ inks and foolishly didn't print anything for
> 4 or 5 months.  I then got serious banding and ran a ton of cleaning
> cycles and ate up a tone of ink.  
> 
> I seemed to solve the problem, but then a week or so later, the
> banding was back. This time, after eating up some ink cartidges with
> cleaning cycles, I couldn't get rid of the banding.  So I purchased a
> 2nd C86 to try again, but I've been reluctant to set it up without
> asking here on the group how I might fix or avoid this problem in the
> future.

I had a similar problem after not using the printer for a few weeks.
Two cleaning cycles used ink and didn't fix the problem. I came
back several hours later, printed a purge file and found the banding
was gone.  It's possible that you need to leave some time between
cycles, or to print out a purge file.... but it's too expensive to
experiment much!

I would like to find a definitive answer as well ;)

Eoin