Digital BW, The Print

Tom, Craig,

>Well -- alas -- Tom's right.  As of this morning, the intermittent 
>banding and skipping problems with my spongeless MIS cartridges have 
>returned with, as Tom reports, cleaning cycles sometimes helping and 
>sometimes exacerbating the situation.
 
My suspicions lie with the spongeless carts. My only experience with
them was bad.  For two years I used MIS refillable carts with/sponge
in a 2200 and had amlost no problems (1 bad chip and 1 bad cart). 
Later, for a while with my R200 I used the oem color inks with Eboni
for BO, in a sponge cart, and again no problems.

Then I ordered a set of R2 inks and they came in spongeless carts
(deep somber tolling of a bell at twilight and rumble of thunder in
the distance as a flock of bats flies overhead).  They worked fine the
first time, but when I first refilled some of them they leaked badly
out the main bottom valve.  I fussed and fiddled with them, but
eventually every one of them leaked.  They were a horrible mess and
completely unreliable.  I finally sent them all back and requested a
replacement set of sponge carts.  Back to no problems.

I know this was a different sort of problem, but the word "spongeless"
keeps popping out at me as I read your posts.

Regards,
Clayton


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