Digital BW, The Print

Thanks... I guess I know all that... but I want to throw my printer out 
the window at this point!  I have a feeling that the carts are all 
defective.  The poppet is really, really touchy in the black and that 
is the worst (really had to wiggle the adapter around to get it to open 
up for the priming step)... think one or two of the "color" set were 
also weird.  Off to a great start!  Between the ink, carts and paper 
order I have a feeling I just wasted $200 for nothing but a few nights 
frustration :(  I also have a clean CFS that I can use if these 
spongeless carts are really so terrible... first try I have 3 channels 
bad... makes it seem statisically unlikely that I would ever be able to 
get a color cart in which all three channels worked :(

... the optimistic in me wanted to believe that with the new carts and 
inksets that the system would actually work as advertised... at least I 
wasn't so optimistic that I bought a new 1280 strictly for MIS inks and 
everything to go with it... (I was close, but then figured I try out 
the 1160 before spending $500 on the 1280 setup... the price of a wide 
carriage HP or a good down payment on a R2400!).

I've reprimed the carts 3 times.  I've printed purge patterns until 
they were all gray.  I've done more cleaning cycles than I should have 
and the patterns change every time.  The printer was giving perfect 
patterns with epson dye the minute before the installation of the MIS 
spongeless carts.  Am I missing something?

Thanks,

mark

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "kenstrain2000" 
<kenstrain2000@y...> wrote:
> Mark,
> your struggles are familiar (with 1160,1270,1290 printers). AFAIK it
> is really important not to do more than 3 clean cycles without 
> stopping for a rest (for the printer) and (very important) then do a
> small print
> (purge pattern). 
> The "cleans" are not all the same (short, medium and long), and I
> think the pattern requires to be reset after a set of 3 to work well. 
> Look for the cause of the problem - if a couple of sets of cleans do
> not fix it. There are many resources with advice (the old mwords.co.uk
> pages, MIS, etc. etc.), but thoughtful diagnosis is the best way to a
> cure.
> 
> Ken