Digital BW, The Print

Mike..

    I have warm tap water in a quart container in my sink..I purge any residual ink of EACH color back into its bottle, and then I "pump" the syringe 3-4 times full of the warm water and finally keep pumping it out of the water, until nothing more sprays out..
   If you don't buy the 4 oz bottles, you will go through those initial carts very quickly..Make sure to do nozzle checks and download MIS's purge pattern for 6 color printers..I haven't had much clogging with this printer, but the more frequently you use it, the less chance you will end up with a clog..ANY gaps in your nozzle checks will give you banding at the very least..You will need to do one or two cleaning cycles..Also make sure that on your "initial" cart filling, you suck out approx 1cc from the exit port(s) of each one of the carts using the "bottom-fill" adapter(rinsing your syringe out after each color of course!). This will help prevent  getting an "air-lock" at start-up, which you will THINK is a clog..Good luck and have fun!

Eddie

  From: mike-theprint@... 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 7:31 PM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] A question on MIS refill kits





  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.

  -- 
  | Mike Acar | | mike at waspfactory dot org |


  

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