The one thing I've seen destroy others efforts using the refillable carts is to not keep everything clean. Even if you use seperate syringes for each color you need to keep them perfectly clean. So, cleaning and reusing the same syringe for all the colors does not increase your workload.
Cleaning under a small flow of tap water and a few pumps on the syringe to completely dry it will do the trick.
I use the MIS carts on three different printers.
Tom Baker
--- On Tue, 7/14/09, mike-theprint@waspfactory.org <mike-theprint@...> wrote:
From: mike-theprint@waspfactory.org <mike-theprint@...>
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] A question on MIS refill kits
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 4:31 PM
Hi Eddie,
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:15:50PM -0400, Eddie Wiseman wrote:
> Mike..
>
> I would get the EMPTY 1400 carts, and get the 4oz bottles of each
> ink..
I haven't done any serious digital printing before, let alone with
third-party inks, so I thought buying a first set of factory-filled
cartridges would minimize my chances to screw up.
Sure, it's a bit more expensive upfront, but not radically so, and it's
a tiny sum in the long term.
> I rinse my syringes out between each lolor filled, and purge them
> dry..Yo won't NEED the xtra syringes, but they're cheap.
I don't understand "purge them dry" - could you explain?
I guess plain water will rinse the syringe sufficiently.
> I would also buy and EXTRA set of carts in case you experience an
> individual cart failure, or just want to be ready to print again
> ASAP..It's a GREAT system!
Yeah, that also occurred to me - I thought I'd buy the filled set
initially, then another set of empty carts. But I guess I might as well
get 'em all together.
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Re: [Digital BW] A question on MIS refill kits
2009-07-14 by Tom Baker