Digital BW, The Print

> Seeming to have more than my share of problems with both PiezoBW 
and 
> MIS VM, I'm going to suggest the following as an experiment or for 
> discussion, not yet as proven fact. The times I list pertain to 
> pigment inks only, dye inks should last longer, esp Epson:
> 


Jim-

Most of your suggestions are great for the person struggling to keep 
the printer going. My point, however, was that since I switched from 
the Piezo ink carts (maybe CIS would have been better?), all of my 
problems went away. With both CIS and carts, printing daily or after 
as much as a 10 day layoff... I have had ZERO problems. 

My only thought on your suggestion to stick with carts is that there 
could be an advantage with the bulk systems...once set up and running 
well, there is no change to interfere with good performance...this 
could, as you say, change for very infrequent printers (who may well 
be better off for reasons of flexibility as well to stay with carts).

You have a few interesting tricks in there...if I get in a jam again, 
I'll refer back to this post.

Thank,

Tom O'Connell