Digital BW, The Print

As suggested on the list, I've tried using feeder boards of varying 
thicknesses to get my 1280 to accept Museo paper, but no luck. 
It still will not pull the sheet into the printer. I've also tried applying  
slight pressure to coax the sheet to engage with the rollers but 
no luck. When I purchased the printer I bought a 
no-questions-asked replacement guarantee that allows me to 
swap out for a new one. Here's the dilemma, I just installed last 
night a new set of MIS VM cartridges. Can I remove them from my 
current printer and then re-install them in the new printer? It 
would be approximately 2 hours from removal to re-installation. I 
hate to lose my investment in the VM inks.

Thanks

Bruce McKinney

Yes, you can put them back in, but you need the bottom seal rivets 
to keep the ink from dribbling out. If you don't have them you'll be 
forced to stand the cart on end, which will produce massive air-
bubble problems, and cause you to lose most of the ink to cleaning 
cycles. As it stands, you'll lose a good bit of it anyway, by the 
time you get it going again. I haven't read previous feedback on 
your paper feeding problem by I for one have had serious trouble 
feeding anything over a 205 gsm paper through my 1280, and the few 
times I did I had to re-align my printer head.

Steve K

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "kubeatsou 
<bmckinney@t...>" <bmckinney@t...> wrote:
> As suggested on the list, I've tried using feeder boards of 
varying 
> thicknesses to get my 1280 to accept Museo paper, but no luck. 
> It still will not pull the sheet into the printer. I've also tried 
applying  

> slight pressure to coax the sheet to engage with the rollers but 
> no luck. When I purchased the printer I bought a 
> no-questions-asked replacement guarantee that allows me to 
> swap out for a new one. Here's the dilemma, I just installed last 
> night a new set of MIS VM cartridges. Can I remove them from my 
> current printer and then re-install them in the new printer? It 
> would be approximately 2 hours from removal to re-installation. I 
> hate to lose my investment in the VM inks.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bruce McKinney

Steve K wrote in response to Bruce:

"I for one have had serious trouble feeding anything over a 205 gsm paper
through my 1280, and the few times I did I had to re-align my printer head."

This isn't the first time I've heard this about the 1280, but I'm still
surprised. I routinely feed the 425gsm Epson Smooth Fine Art paper through
my 1280. It won't feed on its own. I have to firmly grip both edges and very
gently use downward pressure to feed it, but it works most of the time.
Photorag 308 is even easier to feed into my 1280.

I think I've been doing this for nearly two years now. Maybe I'm somehow
damaging the printer and shortening its life, but so far it hasn't been a
big deal with my 1280.

Tom Keesling
Intelligent Design, Inc.

Hi folks ...

I was so happy with my new 2200 until ...

I have been printing birth announcements (small 5x7 cards) and I had 
been following the ink level indicators, watching them slowly drop. 
It looked like the light cyan and light magenta were going to run out 
first. This seemed normal to me until tonight, when I went to resume 
printing, I got an error message telling me that the Matte Black and 
Yellow were completely out. Yesterday's checks showed the yellow 
above half and the matt black to be nearly full. What is most 
stunning is that the light cyan and light magenta now read full. 
Obviously (to me) there is a malfunction of some kind.

Tech support was kind but less than helpful. Since I don't have 
replacement carts on hand for these two colors, I was told there was 
nothing they could do. Their position is that I must be out of ink. 
I'm sure that's impossible in the case of the new Matte Black and 
improbable in the Yellow considering the level checks I did 
yesterday. What is most baffling is that when I reported that the 
nearly empty ones were now reading full, they said "well the 
indicators are only an estimate."

Is it possible that the ink level indicators are THAT unreliable? Can 
they read nearly empty one day and then full the next? While just by 
coincidence at the same time two colors are suspiciously and suddenly 
out? Tech support didn't see this as suspicious at all.

I am at a loss.

Anyone have similar experience?

Thanks,

Bob Whitmore

I did have a similar problem with my 2100. The light gray ink would
suddenly report out of ink in the middle of a print and stop, even
though the cartridge was actually full. Even changing between two full
cartridges didn't help. Since then I've changed from USB to a firewire
cable and also thrown away both the light black cartridges and
installed a third one. Haven't had any problems since, so it was
either defective cartridges or a bad cable in my case.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Bob Whitmore
<whitmore@o...> wrote:

> Hi folks ...
> 
> I was so happy with my new 2200 until ...
> 
> I have been printing birth announcements (small 5x7 cards) and I had 
> been following the ink level indicators, watching them slowly drop. 
> It looked like the light cyan and light magenta were going to run out 
> first. This seemed normal to me until tonight, when I went to resume 
> printing, I got an error message telling me that the Matte Black and 
> Yellow were completely out. Yesterday's checks showed the yellow 
> above half and the matt black to be nearly full. What is most 
> stunning is that the light cyan and light magenta now read full. 
> Obviously (to me) there is a malfunction of some kind.
> 
> Tech support was kind but less than helpful. Since I don't have 
> replacement carts on hand for these two colors, I was told there was 
> nothing they could do. Their position is that I must be out of ink. 
> I'm sure that's impossible in the case of the new Matte Black and 
> improbable in the Yellow considering the level checks I did 
> yesterday. What is most baffling is that when I reported that the 
> nearly empty ones were now reading full, they said "well the 
> indicators are only an estimate."
> 
> Is it possible that the ink level indicators are THAT unreliable? Can 
> they read nearly empty one day and then full the next? While just by 
> coincidence at the same time two colors are suspiciously and suddenly 
> out? Tech support didn't see this as suspicious at all.
> 
> I am at a loss.
> 
> Anyone have similar experience?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob Whitmore