Digital BW, The Print

Thomas Keesling wrote:
> My 1280 w/ CIS quit working today. I was out of the room at the time,
but it
> looks like the tubing got caught under the printhead. This is my
second CIS
> and this hasn't happened since I installed it months ago. It
> happened a couple of times with my first CIS, but I never had a
> problem getting the printer reset and printing again when it
> occurred.

Thomas: Were both your CISs from MIS? Or NoMoreCarts?

Peter Marquis-Kyle

"Peter Marquis-Kyle" <petermk@o...> wrote:
> Thomas: Were both your CISs from MIS? Or NoMoreCarts?

Both were NMC. In the first one, I installed Cone's archival color 
inks which worked briefly, but then began to clog. That was about 2 
years ago. I then decided to use the printer for BW and switched the 
CIS to the VM Hex inkset. When I needed to get more ink, I installed 
new tubing carts. Have had very little trouble with the VM inkset or 
the printer til now.

Tom Keesling
Intelligent Design, Inc.

Tom Keesling wrote:
> "Peter Marquis-Kyle" <petermk@o...> wrote:
>> Thomas: Were both your CISs from MIS? Or NoMoreCarts?
>
> Both were NMC. In the first one, I installed Cone's archival color
> inks which worked briefly, but then began to clog. That was about 2
> years ago. I then decided to use the printer for BW and switched the
> CIS to the VM Hex inkset. When I needed to get more ink, I installed
> new tubing carts. Have had very little trouble with the VM inkset or
> the printer til now.

Thanks Tom.

My experience: I have a NMC in an 1160 printer that has never gone
wrong. I also have a MIS in a second 1160 -- on this one, the print
head sometimes gets tangled in the tubes. I blame the stiffer MIS
tubing. I intend to make a new bracket to hold the tubes higher above
the printer -- until I do that, I just keep fiddling and cursing...

Peter Marquis-Kyle