Digital BW, The Print

Since I'm pretty new with all that "kitchen work", I'll copy part of your 
workflow. One question arise, pardon me if it's really basic, but having a set 
of full cartridges waiting for a change, is there any danger, that at the bottom 
of the cartridge, ink will dry and finally clog the printer?
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Good question
You can find caps for your cartridges I bought mine at www.rjettek.com but you 
could find them at many ink sources they are really inexpensive so get more than 
you think you will need. I cut a ziplock freezer bag into 1 inch squares and 
place these on the outlet then seat the cap I have never had this leak and have 
done hundreds of refills. For the printers where I have had extra 
cartridges HP's and the Canon 9000 I keep extra filled cartridges in a zip lock 
bag for each color and each cartridge has a number on the side so I replace in 
order and never let one sit over one cycle. I also recap and put the used 
cartridges in the same bag. For those cartridges I remove and store I do the 
same but put a bit of damp tissue in the bag with the cartridges. I have one 
printer that sits unused for 5 to 7 months a year and this is its 6th year and I 
expect when I set it back up it will work fine. I store it with cartridges 
filled with distilled water and glycol and put it in a trash bag for the winter. 
My winter weather is normally humid so I do not put any moist tissue in the 
trash bag but I believe some in very arid desert enviornments do put water in 
with the printer some use sponges.

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Topping off cartridges.

While this was possible with some older technology I did this with two older HP 
Printers where I never removed the cartridges just opened and filled. The newer 
printers are often user unfriendly in order to force users to buy $15 ink 
cartridges. Frequent software and firmware updates to some printers have made 
older cartridges obsolite to discourage refilling and resetting. While the OEM 
TO79's work in either printer I believe the older 1400 ARCS will not function in 
the 1430 but I am not sure that this is a fact.

I have ARC Cartridges for several printers but with the exception of the 1430 I 
only use them as cleaning cartridges. I have had problems with them not 
reporting empty and having the printer waste a sheet of photo paper. I had to 
count sheets and check ink levels frequently and the only way on the 1430 is to 
pull the cartridge out enough to see the ink level. I have found having multiple 
cartridges for each position and using a chip resetter to be the best method for 
my use at this time. I understand that some ARC Cartridges can be manually reset 
but these are usually expensive sets and might not be available for the 1430. As 
far as I am concerned there is not a good option for the 1430 for B&W at this 
time but there are ways to ge the job doneI hope to find sets of empy OEM 
cartridges on Ebay and find a reseller that can sell me empty cartridges so I 
can put OEM Chips on Empty Cartridges so I can use a chip resetter and the OEM 
Chips will report when empty correctly. From what I have seen the chips on the 
nonOEM cartridges seen on Ebay are not reprogramable so can not be reset.

Bill Lewis