Digital BW, The Print

I'm not sure what happened.  I've been printing happily for a year 
with a 1270--MIS VMs and six months with a 1280 - color perpectuals.

Today I got clogging in both machines at the same time.  Not paper 
specific, nor setting specific.  So I pulled the cartridges out of 
the 1280 to see what could be seen.  Now there's major air in the 
line, so I've likely lost the vacuum.

Suggestions??

Will cull through the archive in the meantime and see what's been 
covered.

Thanks,
Cleavis

A recent post acts as a reminder to read some good sites...

http://www.inkjetart.com/cis/fixing_air_bubbles.html

Seems to be working.

Cleavis

> Today I got clogging in both machines at the same time.  Not paper 
> specific, nor setting specific.  So I pulled the cartridges out of 
> the 1280 to see what could be seen.  Now there's major air in the 
> line, so I've likely lost the vacuum.
> 
> Suggestions??

I neglected to mention I was printing via InDesign 2.0

My home system in a Win98se-ID2.0.
I had used "my computer"/printers/properties...to set what I wanted 
as new defaults [1440, HWMp, NCA, microweave On, high speed 
Off...this works for PS7).

I then went into InDesign 2.0 and set up a printer style since I'm 
switching back-and-forth between my a color printer and a B&W printer.
 
 
The SNAFU is that InDesign wasn't accessing the new 'defaults' I set 
in the above manner while employing the printer styles.  Instead it 
was taking the usual defaults of "automatic/plain paper, etc."  This 
was making the print outs, deceivingly, look like banding or a 
clogged head, on the print.  Went through a number of different 
cleaning attempts and a certain amount of paper/time before figuring 
it out.

FYI,
Cleavis

> 
> > Today I got clogging in both machines at the same time.  Not 
paper specific, nor setting specific.  So I pulled the cartridges out 
of the 1280 to see what could be seen.