Digital BW, The Print

I have had to use the epson matte black ink in place of the mis 
because it hopelessly clogs. I was cleaning (used 25% of carts!!)
then suddenlyas the black cart was about all the way good it 
completely stopped printing. I can take the cart out and roll it 
back and forth and hear it has ink in it. As soon as I put the epson 
matte black in it works perfectly on the first try. Unless mis gets 
this ink to flow through epsons heads better I will need to decide 
if I want to stay with mis and throw away nearly a third of all the 
ink I buy from them or give up the black and white altogether.

Well, I am looking at the 11x17 portrait I was in the process of 
making when I had so much trouble. Even with the epson matte black 
cart mixed in with the UT7 this print is stunning.
Guess I'll just have to pony up  the dough even if I eventually fry 
the head on the 2200 and have to replace it. It is worth it to me 
for the great black and white prints I am able to produce.

It seems like the big trouble occurs when I change from epson ink to 
mis. Is it possible that even with the ut7 I should use a set of 
flush carts in between?

I personally haven't had any significant clogging problems with the UT7 
inks, but I'm using refilled Epson carts, so my setup is a little bit 
different.

I have had some problems getting the print head aligned properly after I 
got the UT7 inks though, although right now everything seems to work 
reasonably well. Not sure if this was an ink problem or just my printer 
being difficult.

I've never used flush carts when switching from Epson to MIS inks, but 
it takes several cleaning cycles to get rid of all the color, so you 
probably don't want to do the switch too often to avoid wasting ink.

Try to ask MIS if they have the refill friendly 2200 carts available. 
Bob mentioned a few weeks ago that they were expecting to get those 
cartridges any moment. If you refill from bottles the ink price is 
reduced to around 1/5-1/10 of the prefilled cartridge price.

Also try their forum:
http://www.inksupply.com/forum/index.php

I find it's a great place to get support for their products.

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Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no

byten2003 wrote:

> Well, I am looking at the 11x17 portrait I was in the process of 
> making when I had so much trouble. Even with the epson matte black 
> cart mixed in with the UT7 this print is stunning.
> Guess I'll just have to pony up  the dough even if I eventually fry 
> the head on the 2200 and have to replace it. It is worth it to me 
> for the great black and white prints I am able to produce.
> 
> It seems like the big trouble occurs when I change from epson ink to 
> mis. Is it possible that even with the ut7 I should use a set of 
> flush carts in between?

I do suspect it has something to do with the ink cart itself. Seems 
once I get it going it runs ok. I noticed that the ink cart mis 
supplies is completely different from epsons carts on the inside. 
Far less complex. Also mis has the funky little vent apparently 
missing on the epson cart. I doubt epson would have put all the 
complexity into their carts if not serving an important purpose.
 I have numerous empty ink carts. Did you just buy CF ink and start 
filling the carts yourself?  How do you know when the cart is full 
so that when the chip is reset the chip will not let the cart run 
dry?
I am definitely interested in knowing how the fill process is done.

Thanks, 
Charlie

> I am definitely interested in knowing how the fill process is done.

I've written a tutorial on how to refill the Epson cartridges:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/message/45308

It takes some preparation and practice to get it right, but once the 
cartridges are prepared they are very quick to refill and will last for 
a very long time.

Feel free to email me if you have any questions.

--
Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no

Daniel,

Thankyou  very much !