Digital BW, The Print

Printing can be an extreme sport. The dealer is hedging himself and for good reason.

If you can purge effectively, what could the problem be?? The 740 is quite old and I have used them. I think my 640 is quite dead.

gar

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On 6/6/08 at 1:51 PM fabozzism wrote:

>Hello there,
>
> I contacted the Italian dealer of Piezography to buy inks to convert
>my old 740 Epson printer to B&W.
>
>The answer sounded scary: "It would be wise to buy a new printer, it
>is a bad procedure to convert an used one. This conversion would block
>the heads of the printer in a short period".
>
>Following your experience, I understand there were some successfull
>cases of "used printers B&W converted". I'm now a little bit confused...
>
>What's your opinion?
>
>I mean, I discovered the dealer is selling a "starters kit for B&W"
>with a new printer and K7 in bundle: could this explain the
>"political" answer I got, or it is true that convert to B&W an used
>printer could raise "blocking" issues?
>
>Personally, I think it would be better to clean perfectly the printer
>and then, for the first days, use it intensively with Piezo inks to
>wash out perfectly the system. Don't understand waht could be the
>problem if in the past the printer used color inks, considering also
>that I'll be obliged to change the ink kit as Piezo needs a spongless one.
>
>Thanks for sharing, again, your experience and ideas.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Stefano
>
>
>
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