Digital BW, The Print

Hi,

I'm wondering if you need to maintain the vacuum in the tubing lines 
after filling the CFS carts (after the ink 'surges' to the carts and 
the ink tube is 'at least 1" in the bottle'). I understand that I 
let the sponges soak up the ink overnight, but then I'm instructed 
to put the caps (with the tube and vent holes) on the bottles... Am 
I supposed to somehow maintain the vacuum while:

1. pulling the tube out of the bottle, 
2. capping the bottle with the drilled cap, 
3. cutting the excess slack out of the lines, 
4. marking the tubes at 3 3/4", and 
5. inserting the tubes through the caps and into the bottles?

If so, how? I've read everything I could find and it's probably so 
obvious that no one felt it meritted mention. I called tech support, 
but I wanted to get started tonight (printing tommorrow!!! =)

details: 1160 MIS CFS with UT inks

Thank you so much for your help - this will be my first (hopefully) 
working CFS...

Jim Batzer
dbatzer@...

Once you've filled the carts the vacuum is gone replaced by the 
ink.  So don't worry about the ink-bottle ends of the tubes.  Try to 
minimize the loss of ink from the tube as you struggle to get them 
stuck through the bottlecaps and cut off to the proper length. 
Any bubbles in the lines from the bottles will be drawn with the ink 
into the carts.

I usually insert the tubing into the bottle tops and cut everything 
to approximate length (making sure the bottles are in the correct 
positions and there is extra tubing length) before I load ink into 
the carts and then do a final adjustment.  A whole lot less messy.

I currently have CFS systems on a 1160 and two 1270's.

Hope this helps and is not too late.

Jeff Randall

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<jbatzer2@a...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm wondering if you need to maintain the vacuum in the tubing 
lines 
> after filling the CFS carts (after the ink 'surges' to the carts 
and 
> the ink tube is 'at least 1" in the bottle'). I understand that I 
> let the sponges soak up the ink overnight, but then I'm instructed 
> to put the caps (with the tube and vent holes) on the bottles... Am 
> I supposed to somehow maintain the vacuum while:
> 
> 1. pulling the tube out of the bottle, 
> 2. capping the bottle with the drilled cap, 
> 3. cutting the excess slack out of the lines, 
> 4. marking the tubes at 3 3/4", and 
> 5. inserting the tubes through the caps and into the bottles?
> 
> If so, how? I've read everything I could find and it's probably so 
> obvious that no one felt it meritted mention. I called tech 
support, 

> but I wanted to get started tonight (printing tommorrow!!! =)
> 
> details: 1160 MIS CFS with UT inks
> 
> Thank you so much for your help - this will be my first (hopefully) 
> working CFS...
> 
> Jim Batzer
> dbatzer@c...