Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

Let me take this opportunity to thank you for all your work on black and white digital 
printing that you have so generously and openly shared with the world. Thank you!!

I currently live in Italy and suspect it will be tricky to get the ingredients for the Carbon-6 
base, but I will certainly try. 

In the meantime to continue printing (and to avoid using distilled water), do you think 
simply filling the unused carts with the same Eboni black ink that I use for the working 
carts is a solution to keep the print head healthy? These are epson color carts and I have 
the ink and refill kit from MIS. If I were to use these cart positions in the future, I'd 
probably purchase new clear refillable carts from MIS. At this point I only want to make 
sure the print head will not get damaged.

Cheers,
Simon Griffee

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pr_roark" <pr_roark@...> wrote:
>
> I would not print with an empty cart.  At a minimum, fill them with 
> distilled water.  Better would be to fill them with the Carbon-6 
> base. (See http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Ink-Mixing.pdf )  The 
> glycerol and propylene glycol (in the Photo Flo) will help keep the 
> pads moist when the printer is not used and will stop the un-used 
> nozzles from being wrecked.  You may want to use one or more of those 
> nozzles in the future.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com