Digital BW, The Print

Hi folks,

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 08:13:14PM -0400, Eddie Wiseman wrote:
> 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..

Ok, I see.

>    If you don't buy the 4 oz bottles, you will go through those
> initial carts very quickly..

*nod* It seems like the best bet is to get a set of pre-filled carts, a
set of bottled inks, and a couple sets of syringe+needle+adapter. I
guess there's not much reason not to throw in a set of refill-friendly
carts and a resetter, too.

> 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!

Great, thanks for the advice!

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 04:45:58PM -0700, Tom Baker wrote:
> 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.  

*nod* A good observation. I'll try to be scrupulous :)

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 04:47:24PM -0700, RobLee wrote:
> I would suggest you try OCP German inks. I have a great success with
> them in my R1800

From the OCP website, it seems the 1400 inks are still under
development. But I'll keep it in mind if I find I want to switch from
the MIS inks.

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  | Mike Acar |                                | mike at waspfactory dot org |