Digital BW, The Print

He is right and wrong.  Yes the dummy carts stop the other 3 slots on the
left side from pumping their tube line ink into the tank.  Only the K line
is flushed.  However, the printer uses the opportunity to do a rather
extensive cleaning cycle (not at all dissimilar from the Power Clean) and a
lot of ink from all lines is used.


> From: Alan Kearney <alan_kearney@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:45:19 -0700
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Switching black inks - Epson 4800
> 
> I've been watching this discussion with much interest as I'm about to
> buy a 4800. The dealer here in No. California (Palo Alto) tells me
> that Epson now supplies 3 dummy carts that when inserted make the
> machine only purge the black ink you're swapping, at a cost of
> pennies instead of flushing the whole printer for dollars! Now is
> this shop "blowing smoke" or is this something that no one on this
> discussion board knows about or bothers with???
> 
> Thanks, Alan
> 
>