Digital BW, The Print

Rodolpho,

>... printer ... (an useful, but old 850).

If you are using the MIS VM inkset, the curves are very printer-type
specific.  So, if the 850 is part of a family of printers that includes one
of those for which curves are written, then it should be OK.  If is it not
just a smaller size of a printer for which there are curves, then it is very
unlikely any existing curves will give acceptable results.

>... inkjet refill kit arrived. At the night of that
>day, I followed the instructions literally (except for the use of bottom
>fill adapter, that never came), taking about 1 hour - not so long, for the
>first time.

I use the MIS procedures, including the bottom fill adapter.  It might be
that without that you got an air pocket in there that is not going away.

It usually takes 3-4 cleaning cycles to get a newly filled cart to deliver a
perfect nozzle check.  I'm too impatient to wait overnight or at all.  I
just stick them in and immediately start a cleaning cycle.  It wastes some
ink, but it's not that much.  If I were not constantly changing carts, of
course, I'd use a CIS.

Because I have used a CIS, I have to use rubber ear plugs to hold down the
lever that tells the printer that a new cart has been put in.  When I used
the original CIS foam blocks to do this I would occasionally get false
signals indicating no ink because the foam block had slipped.


Paul
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