Digital BW, The Print

I am having a problem.

System: Epson 1160, No-more-carts CIS, Piezography 6 on a Macintosh.

Symptom: the black position ink isn't printing. The 3 grey inks are fine.

Other information: I don't think it is a clog (I am pretty good at clearing
those up)

A few weeks ago I accidentally let the black ink run out and got air in the
lines. I attempted to re-prime the system but couldn't create a complete
vacuum like the first time I started the system up. No matter how may times
I drew air out of the tube it never resisted enough as I expected it to. I
went ahead and dropped the tube in the new ink bottle and it seemed to prime
OK and I got some fine prints out.

However, I went to print this week and got quite a few clogged heads on the
black ink head. Windex, cleaning cycles, purge pages etc. didn't really
clear anything up so I tried the windex on a paper towel with light
scrubbing technique which left the paper tower with quite a bit of ink on
it.

After running a new cleaning cycle and windex on the pad overnight I now
have virtually black no ink at all.

I tend to think that my black cartridge has a bad seal somewhere.

Is there any way to fix this or replace the cartridge on the CIS?

James Haney
jhaney@...

I experienced the same problem with the yellow position last week. To 
test the problem I inserted the Cleaning Cartridges and after running 
a cleaning cycle, I did a nozzle check... it was perfect. I put the 
problem cart back in and once again, nothing. So, I replaced the bad 
cart and haven't had any problems since. 

Gregory Schern
Inkjet Goodies - Photographic & Fine Art Inkjet Supplies
www.inkjetgoodies.com
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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., James Haney <jhaney@m...> 
wrote:
> I am having a problem.
> 
> System: Epson 1160, No-more-carts CIS, Piezography 6 on a Macintosh.
> 
> Symptom: the black position ink isn't printing. The 3 grey inks are 
fine.
> 
> Other information: I don't think it is a clog (I am pretty good at 
clearing
> those up)
> 
> A few weeks ago I accidentally let the black ink run out and got 
air in the
> lines. I attempted to re-prime the system but couldn't create a 
complete
> vacuum like the first time I started the system up. No matter how 
may times
> I drew air out of the tube it never resisted enough as I expected 
it to. I
> went ahead and dropped the tube in the new ink bottle and it seemed 
to prime
> OK and I got some fine prints out.
> 
> However, I went to print this week and got quite a few clogged 
heads on the
> black ink head. Windex, cleaning cycles, purge pages etc. didn't 
really
> clear anything up so I tried the windex on a paper towel with light
> scrubbing technique which left the paper tower with quite a bit of 
ink on
> it.
> 
> After running a new cleaning cycle and windex on the pad overnight 
I now

> have virtually black no ink at all.
> 
> I tend to think that my black cartridge has a bad seal somewhere.
> 
> Is there any way to fix this or replace the cartridge on the CIS?
> 
> James Haney
> jhaney@m...