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How do I empty cartridges of cleaning fluid?

How do I empty cartridges of cleaning fluid?

2014-02-01 by <paulmwhiting@...>

Hello,

I did some searching before I posted this but no luck... apologies if this has been discussed earlier.

I have some cleaning carts in my refurbed 1400 and would like to fill them with the Carbon-6 inkset. Had good success mixing the various dilutions of Eboni and am ready for my maiden voyage. But how do I empty the carts of the cleaning fluid? Not really a cleaning fluid in the strict sense, it's the Carbon6b base fluid, tinted with red dye so I can see nozzle checks... which I've been running periodically while I bought a scale and figured out mixing the Carbon-6. I don't want residual tinted base fluid to mix with my Carbon-6 inks.

Thank you!

Paul W.

RE: How do I empty cartridges of cleaning fluid?

2014-02-01 by <paulmwhiting@...>

A horrible thing just happened. I pulled those cleaning fluid carts to look at them and was ready to fill them with the C-6 inkset but didn't know how to empty them first. So I pressed the ink refill button, put them back in the printer and pressed the ink refill button again to reposition the carriage and I got this horrible grinding noise. I quickly pulled the power cord, and plugged it back, and the carriage went through all kinds of back and forth motion - then it finally settled down.


Did I damage anything? It was the most god-awful noise.


Paul W.

Re: [Digital BW] RE: How do I empty cartridges of cleaning fluid?

2014-02-01 by Paul Roark

I've heard the grinding noise, and it usually does not damage the printer. I think it's the belt drive slipping on the belt. The carriage seems able to re-calibrate itself.

As to rinsing, I use distilled water for the first few flushes and then the C6b base. I do a few flushes where I pull most out with the same syringe in the reservoir as was used to fill the cart. I also use a bottom fill adapter to pull water and base through the outlet. You should be able to see when the fluid is clear.

Good luck with the setup.

Paul
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On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 10:03 AM, <paulmwhiting@...> wrote:

A horrible thing just happened. I pulled those cleaning fluid carts to look at them and was ready to fill them with the C-6 inkset but didn't know how to empty them first. So I pressed the ink refill button, put them back in the printer and pressed the ink refill button again to reposition the carriage and I got this horrible grinding noise. I quickly pulled the power cord, and plugged it back, and the carriage went through all kinds of back and forth motion - then it finally settled down.


Did I damage anything? It was the most god-awful noise.


Paul W.


Re: [Digital BW] RE: How do I empty cartridges of cleaning fluid?

2014-02-01 by <paulmwhiting@...>

Thanks, Paul, that's reassuring. A while back got the same noise from my venerable R1800, I had been doing the shoeshine underhead cleaning with a paper towel - forgot to remove the towel! Dumb mistake... there again, I quickly pulled the power plug, removed the towel, and the carriage reset itself. Immediately made a print, and all was well. Whew...


Thanks for the tip on cleaning the carts, too.


Best regards,


Paul

Re: [Digital BW] RE: How do I empty cartridges of cleaning fluid?

2014-02-01 by <paulmwhiting@...>

Basic question, sorry: what's a flush? Do you actually run a cleaning cycle with the distilled water and C6b? You did say to do a flush by pulling out the fluid with syringe, but does that come later, after doing a couple of cleaning cycles?

Re: [Digital BW] RE: How do I empty cartridges of cleaning fluid?

2014-02-01 by Paul Roark

I do all the cleaning, rinsing or flushing of the old inks with the carts removed from the printer and over a sink. Pull the ink out the top, rinse the reservoir a couple of times with distilled water (never use tap water). I pull the water and clear fluids out the top first, but also through the outlet. That has to be totally clean also. Eventually what you pull out the outlet will be visually clear.

Paul
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On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:44 AM, <paulmwhiting@yahoo.com> wrote:

Basic question, sorry: what's a flush? Do you actually run a cleaning cycle with the distilled water and C6b? You did say to do a flush by pulling out the fluid with syringe, but does that come later, after doing a couple of cleaning cycles?


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