Digital BW, The Print

Jordan,

Did you remove the vent hole tape on the top over the sponge?

I tried the new MIS filling instructions on a new cart yesterday also.  I
found that I had to remove the tape to get the sponge to fill.  I did this
before priming.  After filling the reservoir with the vent tape off, I
primed the cart while I held my finger over the vent hole so that the ink
would pull from the reservoir and not the sponge.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jordan
> Wosnick
> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 5:38 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Filling MIS carts -- sponge only partly soaked?
> 
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Yesterday I had my first go at filling a cart with MIS Eboni for my
> C86. (I use the MIS EZ inks.) Things went fairly well (with a
> little ink spilled, but no big deal) until near the end...
> 
> The instructions from MIS state that after filling and "priming"
> with the bottom-fill adapter, the ink should soak into the sponge
> over the course of an hour. I "primed" the cart (withdrawing just
> over 1 ml of ink) and the sponge did begin to soak with ink.
> 
> But after an hour, and even after leaving the cart standing upright
> overnight, only about 1/3 of the sponge had soaked up ink -- the
> rest of it was still "snowy white".
> 
> Is this a problem for printing, and how do I solve it?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Jordan
> 
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> 
> Jordan Wosnick
> jwosnick@...
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