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Re: [Digital BW] Re: K3 is the latest technology

2005-05-19 by Steve Kale

I believe the air leakage occurs when removing and inserting the cartridges
- not just when refilling them.  That makes them very ineffective for
swapping back and forth with different ink sets (eg colour to B&W).  I
expect the next version to be much better.


> From: scott_now_coming <scott_now_coming@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 02:08:40 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: K3 is the latest technology
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
> <stevekale@b...> wrote:
>> I've had a terrible time with small bubbles forming in the gap
> between the
>> poppet valve and the foam.  "
> 
> 
> Steve,
> 
> I had that same problem too. Then I realized I was skipping over a
> very important step of cart re-filling:
> 
> After filling the resovoir, leave the cart in the up-right position
> for 1 hour, And Then put the stopped in the resovior "fill hole".
> 
> That seemed to clear up the nozzle check problems with me.
> 
> I used to fill the cart, plug the hole, use the BFA, the try to print
> with the carts. Always had problems.
> 
> Scott
>

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