Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Ernst Dinkla 
<E.Dinkla@c...> wrote:
> dfaprinting wrote:
> 
> >The ink carts on this printer are the same as the 9500 (and or 
bigger 
> >500ml) right? If so that means no ink chips, and attaching bottles 
to 
> >the internal ink lines should be a snap.
> >  
> >
> 
> No, they are chipped. Look much more like the 9600 carts but more 
> complicated, and they are 500 ml. MIS chip resetter works on the 
carts.
> 
> No, the carts are at a much lower level than the heads so there's 
an 
> extra air pump in the printer to pressurize an extra chamber around 
the 
> ink bag in the cart to get the ink to the heads. There are also 
extra 
> electrical valves on the cart slots to prevent flow back. The carts 
have 
> also more complicated valves for that purpose. They can't be 
refilled 
> without a kind of cataract operation on the valve system but when 
that's 
> done they are fine for refilling. With 500 ml per cart and easy 
> refilling plus the complicated inkline construction I do not see 
any 
> reason to go for a CIS.
> 
> 
> Ernst

I may have to read through the service manual, that system must be a 
nightmare when it fails. You could still put a CIS on it, and just 
raise the bottles up to a level near that of the heads, gravity would 
take the place of the airbags.