Digital BW, The Print

My experience is very positive, just like Johnny's. I think these are
the greatest thing since sliced bread. 

Bob Michaels

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Johnny Eades"
<jeades1@s...> wrote:
> 
> When I ordered mine, they came with light translucent plugs in a 
> separate small bag. The hole you put ink in with the syringe/needle 
> must be plugged with those plugs or you will get ink dripping all 
> over the place sooner or later. After plugging the holes, you must 
> use a bottom adapter on another syringe and pull out just enough ink 
> from each chamber too see in the tip of the syringe. This removes any 
> air that is in the small chamber right at the outlet the printer 
> pulls the ink from. After all this is done, you will simply need to 
> perform a nozzle check and you should have perfect patterns if you 
> had them before filling the cartridge. These are the most trouble-
> free cartridges I have ever used, and the problem of foam buildup is 
> eliminated.
> 
> Your friend in Photography,
> 
> Johnny
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "toniko74" 
> <t.zakrzewski@k...> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello group,
> > Today I tried for the first time the clear cartridges and MIS UT2 
> > inks from 4oz bottles on my Epson 1290. Nothings works, I'm afraid. 
> > Now I have to find out what exactly went wrong. Once I put the 
> filled 
> > cartriges into the printer I could not get good nozzle check 
> (almost 
> > all nozzles blocked), and after the first printout on plain paper 
> > (just to see whathappens) I noticed that the cart leaves drops of 
> ink 
> > at the left (farther form where the cart parks) border of A4 sheet 
> I 
> > was printing, the sponge where the cart parks was also full of ink 
> > and when I removed the cartriges there was a small amount of ink 
> > inside the cart near the valves. So my first try at self refilling 
> > was a disaster. Now what could go wrong?
> > First of all, my cartridges didn't have rubber plugs in round holes 
> > at top where I was inserting needle with ink. When I filled all 
> > chambers and primed the cartridges I taped the holes so that no air 
> > could come in (at least I thought so).
> > I injected about 14cc of ink into black cartridge and 12cc into 
> each 
> > color chamber. Was it too much ink so that it began to spill out as 
> > the cart was moving? Please help if anybody knows what's going on.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Tomek