Digital BW, The Print

I'm going to be traveling for several months, and unfortunately my 1160 may 
have to stay behind, boxed up with no one to look after it. Fortunately I don't 
have a CIS yet -- I use carts (FS-N at the moment).

I was thinking I'd get some of InkJetMall's cleaning carts, flush it really well, 
and then store it without any carts in it at all. Is this the best way to go?

Thanks,
Peter

To the list:

I recently fired up my 1160 with quad-tone MIS inks in user-filled carts 
that I hadn't used since June. First nozzle check had a few gaps. I topped 
up the cartridges, ran a couple of cleaning cycles, printed a purge page, 
got a good nozzle check, and proceeded to print a dozen or so satisfactory 
13×19s. That was after five months down time.

Incidentally, I also restarted my 1200 (with MIS color inks in user-filled 
carts) that I hadn't used since last April. That was more of a problem. No 
amount of cleaning and purging produced a good nozzle check. I ended up 
attaching a piece of shrink-fit tubing to a syringe filled with cleaning 
fluid that I'd purchased from a local ink supplier and (having heat shrunk 
the tubing to fit tightly on the nipples in the cartridge well) injected 
half a CC or so of fluid into each nipple. I slid a piece of blotter paper 
under the head which minimized the mess. It took a couple of tries, but 
after the second injection my nozzle check was much improved. I filled a 
new cartridge and ran a couple of cleaning cycles. After letting the 
printer sit for a couple of hours I got a good nozzle check and proceeded 
to print five or six 13×19s.

I've never installed a CIS since I knew that I'd probably let my printers 
sit unused for months at a time and feared the consequences of evaporation, 
dried ink in the tubes, and deteriorating sponges in the dedicated CIS 
cartridge. I was gratified to find that even after half a year I could get 
my printers back up and running. The 1160 was particularly easy.

-- Victor Landweber


At 10:07 PM 12/16/2002 +0000, you wrote:

>I'm going to be traveling for several months, and unfortunately my 1160 may
>have to stay behind, boxed up with no one to look after it. Fortunately I 
>don't
>have a CIS yet -- I use carts (FS-N at the moment).
>
>I was thinking I'd get some of InkJetMall's cleaning carts, flush it 
>really well,
>and then store it without any carts in it at all. Is this the best way to go?
>
>Thanks,
>Peter
>
>
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Hello

I had the following idea when I was going to be away for a while ... Does
anyone know if it would help? Or even cause problems


>> Use a timed power switch, the kind that fits into a wall socket. This would
be set to switch on for ten minutes a day. The printers do a little
'exercise' when starting and this would stop them drying out


In the end I just got my friendly plant watering assistant to press the
power button on my printers and press it again when they left.


bye for now   

Keith Cooper

http://www.Northlight-images.co.uk
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