A Progress Report on air and the Epson 7000:
>Thanks for all the feedback which as excellent and helpful. I
>accordingly levelled my tubing and went through in a step by step
>the initial charge procedure and came up with air in not one but
>all on my cartridges with all ink jets filled with air. All ink
>lines were empty and devoid of ink. At that point, fearing that the
>presence of air in the lines might cause any remaining ink to dry
>and really clog my jets, I unloaded the MIS inks totally and
>reinstalled my Epson generic dye inks. What solvents Epson has in
>those inks are great as they loaded first shot with all jets
>suddenly firing. So I am back to the beginning and will contact Bob
>at MIS on Monday for the newer set of CIS . I think the small
>diameter tubing is a disaster and look forward to the larger tubes.
>I think the leveling of the lines going to the cartridge is an
>excellent idea and will do this also. Thanks for all the help as i
>now breath a sigh of relief knowing my jets are alive and well.
Stephen Harrison
>
>Ah, the double tube version. Call Bob and ask him to take it back.
>Have him send you the newest version with the single tube. As I
>mentioned mine has now been running w/o air infiltration for almost
>a month.
>
>One other option. Jim Davis has a design using 1/4"id tubing the
>runs maintenance free. I bought an extra set of carts for $10 ea.
>Tubing for $5, GE Silicon for $3, drilled a few holes and will test
>out his system in a few days. Jim says that the very thin tubing is
>starving the printer of ink.
>
>I sent my double tube version back as I could not get it to work.
>
>If you want to discuss any of this off line. You can call me in the
>office M-F at 561-893-0042 or at Home 561-637-8683
>
>Mike
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stephen Harrison
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 5:20 PM
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Epson 7000 air in line
>
>
> Mike: Thanks for your input.
>
> Yes, I am using the MIS VM inkset in the Epson 7000 and recently had
> the Epson repair tek out here and the unit was realigned and working
> fine when he left.
>
> I did the install fill according to your detailed instructions and
> the same jet remained missing. Then I printed out a purge sheet and
> after that about 5 other jets now have gaps in the pattern. They were
> not plugged before I printed the purge sheet. I wonder if it has to
> do with the tubing diameter. When the first system leaked air, Bob
> sent me a double tube set with two tubes coming out of each cartridge
> instead of one. The diameter of the new tubing is even less than the
> old CIS system I received. I wonder the heads are unable to suck the
> ink up into the ink jet heads because of the small tubing. I even
> tried the old windex trick to no avail and applied it on the parking
> pads. Something is wrong as I now have for the first time several
> gaps in my head pattern indication air or much less likely particle
> blockage.
>
> Thoughts or ideas ??
>
> Stephen Harrison
>
>
> >Stephen,
> >
> >First, are you using a CIS with your MIS VM inks? I think that is
> >what Mark is talking about. If so, I will tell you how to fix the
> >problem, it took months or experiementing and switching out parts
> >with MIS, but we finally have it working with no problems.
> >
> >If you loaded carts and have air in the line, all the cleaning cycles
> >in the world will not help as the 7000 lines are very long. You need
> >to do an initial fill to purge the air. You do not have to remove the
> >ink, but just do the init fill.
> >
> >Here is how it is done;
> >
> >Epson 7000 - INITIAL CHARGE PROCEDURE
> >1 - Ensure printer is off.
> >2 - Hold 3 buttons down and turn on machine. The three (3) buttons
> >are:
> >a) "Paper feed +" ( Paper feed plus)"
> >b) "Paper feed -" ( Paper feed minus)
> >c) "Cut/Eject" (Enter)
> >
> >3 - The LCD will display "Check : Test
> >
> >4 - Press the "Paper Source" button four (4) times to toggle through
> >the
> >cleaning menu until the LCD displays : "Check : Cleaning".
> >
> >5 - Press the "Enter" Button. The LCD will display "Cleaning :
> >Std.KK0"
> >
> >6 - Press the "Paper Source" Button to toggle though the menu until
> >the LCD
> >displays "Cleaning : Init. Fill"
> >
> >7 - Press the "Enter" Button to beginning the charging routing.
> >("Init.
> >Fill" = Initial Fill)
> >
> >8 - When the charging routing is finished - you will need to turn the
> >printer OFF to exit these menus. Turn it back ON to begin normal
> >operation.
> >
> >Hope this helps, it has always worked for me when I got air in the
> >lines. I have never used fantastic or windex on my 7000. I find the
> >heads are usually cleared by sitting or the cleaning cycles.
> >
> >Let me know if this helps,
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Stephen Harrison <sh@s...>
> >wrote:
> >> >I have an Epson 7000 and was installing the MIS VM Quad tone inks
> >> >and there seems to be air { it could be a clog as well although
> >> >probably is air) in only one of my jets. I have waited 48 hours,
> >> >run many cleaing cycles and printed out many sheets all to no
> >> >avail. The block remains. I have read where Fantastic can be
> >> >inserted on the pads where the heads rest for the Epson 3000. Does
> >> >anyone know if this is effective for the Epson 7000 as well?
> >>
> >>
> >> Stephen Harrison
> >
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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Epson 7000 air in line: an update
2002-01-13 by Stephen Harrison