well ... perhaps it is that great us craftmanship then, that clogs the
nozzles. still .. if you had an undisclosure agreement there is no excuse
for breaking it. if it was me you had an agreement with i would sue your
ass off.
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:17:14 -0600, Jerry Olson <jerryolson@...> wrote:
> Hi Don,
>
> But the problem does seem to persist with all brands of inks and
> cartridges. It is entirely possible that a company can get a bad batch
> of cartridges. It has happened with at least 3 of the sellers I know of.
> I wish I could be certain that before I get cartridges that they were
> NOT made in China, Taiwan, or Korea. I've had nothing but problems with
> ANYthing made in these three countries. Their overall quality on most of
> their products is abysmal. Especially Electronics. They don't last long,
> and workmanship is not up to professional standards, in a lot of cases,
> and they don't use the best quality parts during manufacture.
>
> Trouble is, you don't have a choice anymore. Anything you might want to
> get in small appliances, or electronics is made in one of those 3
> countries. About 80 percent of KMart products, for instance. I'm sure
> there are exceptions, but I'd still like the choice.
>
> In my case, I know it is not the printer that is at fault, since it
> prints perfect prints, and nozzle patterns with Epson in. (Also made in
> China, of course, so there are exceptions).
>
> I've been using MIS VM inks since they came out, and haven't had any
> real serious problems. Most of the time, a few head cleanings will do
> it. But in the case of Eboni, thats when all the problems started, Right
> now, I have a current Set of MIS VM inks, and about half a set of
> older VM inks, (in date). This afternoon, I'm going to try and draw
> about 60 CCS of ink through the bottom of all the cartridges, so that
> they get really saturated with ink. Then I'll let the unit sit
> overnight, and will install it into the printer tomorrow. This will be
> the last time I try a CIS, unless the dealer will offer a 100 percent
> money back guarantee within 30 days if it doesn't work. I'm not going to
> clean and refill a unit again. It takes WAY too much time and is
> extremely frustrating.
>
> Jerry
>
>> I've been using the Eboni inks for about 2 weeks in the FSN inkset on
>> my 1160 using the ConeTech plugin and MIS CFS carts. I've had no
>> banding or clogs.
>
> Thats with the FSN inkset. I have been using the VM, but it shouldn't
> make any difference.
>
> I had a couple of 1160 printers that worked very well with MIS VM. I had
> about 6 months printing without a single problem a couple years ago,
> using MIS VM inks. Unless they have changed their formulation, I doubt
> it is the inks.
> That leaves the carts.
>
> But how can you tell for certain that a cartridge will not hold a
> vacuum? When I was pulling the vacuum and filling the last set of
> nomorecarts, everything seemed to be going fine. The vacuum seemed to be
> pulling fine, a little hard to get the pump all the way to 35 10 times,
> If it weren't holding, you'd think the vacuum plunger would pull very
> easily, but it didn't.
>
> However, considering that 3 chambers have no ink in them, and the other
> 2 only have ink in the tubes, and it stops just before it gets into the
> cartridges, it doesn't appear any ink is being withdrawn from the
> bottles, which still are almost full. Only the black is down about an
> inch in the K bottle.
>
> Rant over :)
>
> Jerry
>
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