Digital BW, The Print

Well... I got my pints of FSN today. Switched out the FS inks and ran 
about 5 MIS purge files and started printing.

Anybody know if this was enough to get all the old ink flushed 
through the CIS system? 

I thought I had read that was enough, but if it is, I'm hard pressed 
to see the difference between FS and FSN (lovely though it is).

Thanks,

Tom O'Connell

TomOC@...
www.thomasoconnell.com

> Anybody know if this was enough to get all the old ink flushed 
> through the CIS system? 
> Tom O'Connell

Tom,

I recently replaced Generations 3 yellow with Generations 4 
yellow in my CIS. I made a 7"x9" purge patch in Illustrator. It took 
about 55 sheets to totally replace the old yellow with the new - I 
used my flat bed scanner to measure the color value change.

Start purging!

Best,

John V.

Why buy pints of ink, but not new carts? It's not that hard to do, or that
expensive to replace the carts in a CIS. And you start out fresh with the
new ink. You may never clean out all the old ink in the carts. Why use a
contaminated workflow?

I also went from Gen 3 to Gen 4 some time ago. As I recall, it took less
than 30 min to replace the carts & only 2 days for the stains to wash off my
fingers. :)

It took just one purge sheet to clean the old ink out of the heads.

If it matters, I did this on an 1160. -BK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: johnvphoto [mailto:johnnyv@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 4:56 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: How much ink in tubes?
>
>
> > Anybody know if this was enough to get all the old ink flushed
> > through the CIS system?
> > Tom O'Connell
>
> Tom,
>
> I recently replaced Generations 3 yellow with Generations 4
> yellow in my CIS. I made a 7"x9" purge patch in Illustrator. It took
> about 55 sheets to totally replace the old yellow with the new - I
> used my flat bed scanner to measure the color value change.
>
> Start purging!
>
> Best,
>
> John V.
>
>
>
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thanks... Good thing I bought the 16 oz. not the 4 oz. <vbg>

Tom O'Connell

TomOC@...
www.thomasoconnell.com


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "johnvphoto" <johnnyv@c...> 
wrote:
> > Anybody know if this was enough to get all the old ink flushed 
> > through the CIS system? 
> > Tom O'Connell
> 
> Tom,
> 
> I recently replaced Generations 3 yellow with Generations 4 
> yellow in my CIS. I made a 7"x9" purge patch in Illustrator. It 
took 

> about 55 sheets to totally replace the old yellow with the new - I 
> used my flat bed scanner to measure the color value change.
> 
> Start purging!
> 
> Best,
> 
> John V.

When I switched over an Inkset in my CIS system I got in touch with 
NoMoreCarts  for their
recommendations.

They said the ink in the cart was the problem, not the tubes, because 
the carts have sponges in them
and that the old ink, in effect, never goes away.

They sell (through their agents) replacement carts very inexpensively 
and say that is the way it should be done.

My caveat is, make sure you keep track of which tank each tube runs to. 
I didn't and had to do the
whole thing over again. On a 5 tank cart I got only one tube on the 
right position.

J.Z.