Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Matt Haber" 
<matt@...> wrote:
>
> Jerry--
> 
> I have also switched to the K4 inks and spongeless carts. My 
> experience is that i often need to run several cleaning cycles 
after 
> filling. The LM seems to be the worst culprit (FWIW, it was also LM 
> that would never clear in a prior 1280). However, once it has 
> "taken," I've not had any clogs to speak of. I suspect that the 30 
> minutes or so that it takes to fill and reset the carts may allow 
some 
> ink to dry on the heads (I usually do all at the carts at once), so 
I 
> may experiment by putting an OEM cart in place while i fill the MIS 
> carts. 
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 


Matt, your experience is very interesting as I find that LM has been 
the offender for me as well (though, oddly, in the auto clean/test 
cycle LM printed perfectly and LC was the problem...then it flipped 
back to LM being spotty as the test progressed...glad I'm buying this 
in bulk :-)) 

I do them one at a time so not sure about the drying out hypothesis.  
I'll try Paul's suggestion of repriming the carts (tonight I'm just 
going to refill and reset all of them). 

A question:  if the little rubber stopper for the fill hole does not 
form a perfect seal, what would the effect be on printing?  too much 
ink flowing? 

thanks

Jerry