Digital BW, The Print

Adrian,

Could bpeteb's posting about seating of CIS cartridges and direct connection
be the cause of your problems? It seems possible that mere disconnection and
reconnection has solved it, rather than it being due to a different printer
or operating system.

Bob Frost.

Part of bpeteb's posting:

"Apparently the inconsistencies may have been caused by the CIS
cartridges slowly unseating themselves which allows air to enter
through the base feeds of the ink stems which the cartridges rest on.
Manny from IJM called me to give me the heads up on a fix which is
curing quite a few users. You push the CIS carts down and make certain
that you push them down frequently.

I had the DDS syndrom which is when your prints lose density in the 3/4
tones. That is the ink which is mostly affected by the cart rising. But
Manny suggested a fix earlier which was to bypass the CIS cartridges
completely and run the tubing directly onto the ink stems. That was an
instant cure and I am still using that after about 3 months and have no
plans to return to the CIS system."


----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Joyner" <ajbr22709@...>

Then for sake of completeness I swapped the CIS's from my Piezo 1160s and
tried MIS on the previously Piezo printer . Suddenly everything worked
perfectly and I have just printed out four excellent MIS VM prints which I
will post on to Tim.

I am not sure what the problem has been as I have never really been happy
with the MIS VM output. I persevered because so many others liked it and I
always thought that I must be out of step somewhere. Windows XP does seem to
make a difference as both printers printed VM poorly under XP, yet one
printer did almost as bad under 98SE whereas the other has now done so well.
I wonder if all that plugging and unplugging of the CIS did something.

I am not going to try to isolate the cause I am just grateful to be able to
print VM well. Can I offer you a public apology for doubting your VM
solution. Additionally I have now networked the two machines and put all my
scanners on the 98SE which means that I can now print, Photoshop or scan at
the same time. I'm very happy.