Digital BW, The Print

I reciently swithced from the old original Piezo ink to the PT 
Selenium. I did a flush with the original flush carts and plenty of 
purge prints. I have had a problem since installing the ink. After 
every print job, I have to do a nozzle cleaning. I can print one 21 
stepwedge and then do a nozzle check and its bad. One cleaning cycle 
clears it up, but after the next print it re-occures. The printer is 
an Epson 3000 and has a brand new black nozzle head that was 
installed just before the new inkset. The black nozzle seemes to 
check bad more often than the others but still the other nozzles 
check bad along with the black a lot of the time. 
Thank you Wilfred.

Hello Wilfred,
I have Exactly the same problem:

I purchased a used E3000 with the original Piezo inkset.
It was wonderful - every nozzle test was perfect, 'airbrush'
like greytones and it never required cleanings in over two 
months- of light use.
The inks ran out and I replaced them with the PTs. BadNews.

I also purged the nozzles with the original flush carts
and installed a PT inkset. My cyan position ink requires
one cleaning cycle prior to every print session ( different 
nozzles each time ), and I see lots of microbanding.
Other inks show problems less frequently, but one cleaning
cycle results in a perfect nozzle test, but never perfect
printing...... These prints are fair, but surely
not of the outstanding quality I had with the Original Piezos.

I am pretty much planning to go back to Sundance Inks
when these carts run out.

Anyone have any suggestions ? This is not a not clogged head
problem, more like something related to an ink feed.

SO, for what its worth, I have the same problem, but
have not found a solution. I have printed 6 16x20s and
several smaller prints; the problem remains consistent..

Best,
Alex
Orlando Florida

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "wilfredm71047" 
<wilfredm@b...> wrote:

> I reciently swithced from the old original Piezo ink to the PT 
> Selenium. I did a flush with the original flush carts and plenty of 
> purge prints. I have had a problem since installing the ink. After 
> every print job, I have to do a nozzle cleaning. I can print one 21 
> stepwedge and then do a nozzle check and its bad. One cleaning cycle 
> clears it up, but after the next print it re-occures. The printer is 
> an Epson 3000 and has a brand new black nozzle head that was 
> installed just before the new inkset. The black nozzle seemes to 
> check bad more often than the others but still the other nozzles 
> check bad along with the black a lot of the time. 
> Thank you Wilfred.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "B. Alex Pettit 
Jr." <a_pettit_jr@y...> wrote:
> Hello Wilfred,
> I have Exactly the same problem:
> 
> I purchased a used E3000 with the original Piezo inkset.
> It was wonderful - every nozzle test was perfect, 'airbrush'
> like greytones and it never required cleanings in over two 
> months- of light use.
> The inks ran out and I replaced them with the PTs. BadNews.
> 
> I also purged the nozzles with the original flush carts
> and installed a PT inkset. My cyan position ink requires
> one cleaning cycle prior to every print session ( different 
> nozzles each time ), and I see lots of microbanding.
> Other inks show problems less frequently, but one cleaning
> cycle results in a perfect nozzle test, but never perfect
> printing...... These prints are fair, but surely
> not of the outstanding quality I had with the Original Piezos.
> 
> I am pretty much planning to go back to Sundance Inks
> when these carts run out.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions ? This is not a not clogged head
> problem, more like something related to an ink feed.
> 
> SO, for what its worth, I have the same problem, but
> have not found a solution. I have printed 6 16x20s and
> several smaller prints; the problem remains consistent..
> 
> Best,
> Alex
> Orlando Florida
> 
> --- In 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "wilfredm71047" 
> <wilfredm@b...> wrote:
> > I reciently swithced from the old original Piezo ink to the PT 
> > Selenium. I did a flush with the original flush carts and plenty 
of 
> > purge prints. I have had a problem since installing the ink. 
After 
> > every print job, I have to do a nozzle cleaning. I can print one 
21 
> > stepwedge and then do a nozzle check and its bad. One cleaning 
cycle 
> > clears it up, but after the next print it re-occures. The printer 
is 

> > an Epson 3000 and has a brand new black nozzle head that was 
> > installed just before the new inkset. The black nozzle seemes to 
> > check bad more often than the others but still the other nozzles 
> > check bad along with the black a lot of the time. 
> > Thank you Wilfred.