Digital BW, The Print

> I want to clean the underside of my 1160's printhead because I'm 
> experimenting many bad nozzle checks just after adding some MIS FSN-K 
> to my CIS system (the ink in the CIS bottle was FS-K but rzeiss from 
> MIS told me that it's the same ink used in FSN-K). Actually the 
> phenomenon looks like starvation not clogging - different nozzles 
> won't fire on each try and it goes worse after every cleaning cycle. 
> I tried to raise the K bottle by 1/2 - 2/3" but it didn't helped. 
> Then I returned it to the original height. Waiting overnight seems to 
> solve the problem but when I let the printer power off more than two 
> days all the above scenario repeats. If you have suggestions to solve 
> this problem I would like to hear them.
> 
> Now, the original question: I want to clean the underside just to 
> eliminate the probability of underside ink residue being the problem. 
> I have access to ammonia (we don't have Windex in our area) - will 
> buy it at the pharmacy. I want to do the papertowel trick, should I 
> dilute the ammonia from the pharmacy? If yes, what should be the 
> ammonia:water ratio?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Loris.
> 
> 
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From: "Jerry Olson" <jerryolson@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Print head cleaning


> YEs! Dilute the ammonia 1 part ammonia to 9 parts water.
> 
> Jerry