Digital BW, The Print

Well, I finally installed my Quadtone ink cartridges in a 1280 that I 
had formerly been using for color.  (I now do my color printing on a 
2200, a nice improvement.)

When I printed out the 21step.jpg test file that MIS has linked to 
its site, the result was bad. For one thing there is no solid black 
and the black end of the 21 steps definitely does not appear to be 
getting darker at the right rate.  

I did run the nozzle cleaning procedure a few times.  

Should I run it a few more?  Is it possible that the black cartridge 
is defective?  

Any other suggestions/

Thanks in advance

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, himwich@i... wrote:
> Well, I finally installed my Quadtone ink cartridges in a 1280 that I 
> had formerly been using for color.  (I now do my color printing on a 
> 2200, a nice improvement.)
> 
> When I printed out the 21step.jpg test file that MIS has linked to 
> its site, the result was bad. For one thing there is no solid black 
> and the black end of the 21 steps definitely does not appear to be 
> getting darker at the right rate.  
> 
> I did run the nozzle cleaning procedure a few times.  
> 
> Should I run it a few more?  Is it possible that the black cartridge 
> is defective?  
> 
> Any other suggestions/
> 
> Thanks in advance

What does a nozzle check look like?

The nozzle check looks OK. The left most one (with the check at the 
top of the page) looks pretty dark.  The next to the last on the 
right is also dark but a little less so than the left-most one.  The 
other three are slightlt different grays.  (We are not talking about 
a big enough area for my eyes to distinguish much.)  

Tried print the 21step.jpg file again with the same result.  Even the 
labels on each step (0%, 5, ...) are not a nice black which I am 
guessing they should be.



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jim0266" 
<jim0266@y...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, himwich@i... 
wrote:
> > Well, I finally installed my Quadtone ink cartridges in a 1280 
that I 
> > had formerly been using for color.  (I now do my color printing 
on a 
> > 2200, a nice improvement.)
> > 
> > When I printed out the 21step.jpg test file that MIS has linked 
to 
> > its site, the result was bad. For one thing there is no solid 
black 
> > and the black end of the 21 steps definitely does not appear to 
be 
> > getting darker at the right rate.  
> > 
> > I did run the nozzle cleaning procedure a few times.  
> > 
> > Should I run it a few more?  Is it possible that the black 
cartridge 

> > is defective?  
> > 
> > Any other suggestions/
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> 
> What does a nozzle check look like?