Digital BW, The Print

Hello Peter,

Actually I posted this in the Epson Printers group. Sorry about that.
By the way it seems the search function of yahoogroups seems to be
much improved now. It searches quite far back.

I hope he's willing to ship them to Australia.

Here's the excerpt of the post:

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The Maximum Depot carts can be used either with or without
a CIS, and they work great, and cheap. But there is a
gotcha with the Max Depot carts. I had to perform a little
hack to each ink chamber so they work properly.

I'm talking about the carts for the Epson 1160, not 1280 or
others. Maybe for the 1280 they are very similar or the same
as the ones available at inksupply.com. If so they're ok.
But with the 1160 it's a different story.

In the 1160 spongeless carts the vent tube and the port that
draws ink from the reservoir into the damping chambers are
so close together that bubbles that leave the vent tube get
sucked into the chambers. After printing a few pages or
cleaning cycles the damping chambers get filled with foam.
These ports are less than 1/4 inch apart.

The hack involves making a slit on the cart right between
the vent and the inner ink port and insert a small thin
piece of plastic to break the path then use epoxy to
seal the slit back up. After this hack the Max Depot
carts work amazingly well. And they have the nice poppet
valves which were not in the original OEM or widely
available sponge-filled aftermarket carts.
...
Also since I got these wonderful carts now I removed
all CIS from the printers. These carts make it so
easy for refilling and switching between inksets
with virtually no cleaning cycles except for
printing some purge patterns.
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--nick

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter
Marquis-Kyle" <peter@m...> wrote:
> Thanks Nick.
> 
> I must have missed those earlier posts, and some searching in the 
> archives hasn't turned them up -- could you tell me a message number
> please?
> 
> The ebay vendor's listing says he ships only to North America. So
> my first hurdle is getting him to ship to me in Australia -- I'm 
> waiting for his response to this request.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Peter Marquis-Kyle