Digital BW, The Print

James isn't the Cone CIS reset with a small push button switch?
Why are you removing the carts? I don't have a 1400 CIS (just 1900) so I am
extrapolating some what.

Are you using Cone ink and CIS or some other CIS?

More info would be useful.....

Mike

2009/9/13 James Irelan <james@...>

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> I've got yet another e mail out to Dana at Cone's for possible help
> getting these 1400s to work. I have two, with color CISes. Neither
> one has functioned properly. The one I've been working on currently
> keeps showing an error light, pointing to a particular cart. When I
> pull up that cart and put it back down, it may work then, or go to
> another cart. I fix that one, maybe it'll work for a cleaning cycle
> or two, then boom, another light. I've pulled ALL of the carts at a
> time, put them back, then it will seem to work longer- maybe four or
> five cleaning cycles, but before long, there's another light, and
> it'll go on like that in an ongoing cycle from color to color, getting
> back to a color I've already fixed. Before the lights started being
> the main problem, I did I don't know how many pad soaks with Cone's
> red flush, and windex-soaked paper towel cleans, trying to get full
> nozzle checks. Never could. Pulled the carts and flushed with a
> syringe and plastic tube over the intake nib with Cone's red flush.
> Still problems. These printers worked fine when I first got them,
> with the OEM carts in. Perfect from the start. With Cone's CISes:
> nothing but problems.
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> I use these printers primarily for everyday printing, with the goal of
> being able also to print a good small print as a proof or whatever. I
> long for the days of 1160s with NoMoreCarts- never a problem. I've
> got some of these printers still, don't know if they could be
> resurrected any more, or if the driver for them for OS X, which I just
> downloaded, will work in Snow Leopard. I need a printer that works,
> not one that I continually have to try to get working.
>
> Anyone know of a good 1160-like trouble-free workhorse daily printer
> with a CIS available for it? Anyone want two 1400s?
>
> James
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