Digital BW, The Print

>Matin (II),
>
>Thanks for the suggestion, but I figure if Epson thought the sponge
>wasn't needed, they could have saved more money in the design of the
>carts and left them out, IOW it is there for a reason.

One obvious reason to me is that pehaps one third of the ink they sold
you in the cartridge will never be used (it remains stuck in the sponge),
and that little insignificant piece of sponge will increase cartridges
sales by 50 %  for Epson !

>If the ink is properly formulated, we should not have to resort to
>such potentially harmful measures just to get it to work in a printer
>it is supposed to work in.
>
>Terry
>
>--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Martin Sluka
><martinsluka@m...> wrote:
>
>SNIP
>
>>  >  > > > Manny suggested a fix earlier which was to bypass the CIS
>>  >>  cartridges
>>  >  > > > completely and run the tubing directly onto the ink stems.
>>
>>  Have you try to experiment with "inlet filters"? These filters are
>>  special very small filters used for medical and
>>  analytical/bio/organic chemistry. One may very easy attach this
>>  filter on beggining of tube in botle, so ink could be filtered. The
>>  only problem with pigmented inks is to find apropriate porosity of
>>  filters.
>>
>>  Martin (II)
>
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