Digital BW, The Print

Well, after cleaning in behind the print head(mopping up) using several thin 
and thick papers I finally have a print without drip marks. Yea, there was 
actually enough ink in excess somewhere to drip and run down the paper. I 
suspect it was some kind of air bubble burping action. Weird! The lines 
already have ink them and adding a refilled cart behind the lines you would 
think the first couple prints would be fine, but this started immediatly 
after the refill. cleaning behind the head didn't help but a second cleanig 
cycle seems to have helped. Nozzels looked good however. Took probably 10 
prints to clear this up. A little nerve wracking when this crap starts 
happining on your 4,000 printer. Probably one of the hazzards of 3rd party 
inks and refilling. I hope it doesn't come back...
Steve M.
In a message dated 11/11/2001 7:00:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
ken@... writes:


> Oh....the reason I also thought it was air...I was getting skips in 
> the black area when doing a nozzle check...
> 
> I ran a cleaning cycle, and I haven't had the problem anymore.
> 
> ken
> 
> 




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I have had this happen with a 7000 when I refilled carts and installed them
immediately. I now fill carts and let them sit overnight before inserting
into printer.
Also have to be careful not to overfill. I've done that too. I now usually
err on the side of caution and underfill the carts by about 30 mL.