Digital BW, The Print

I'm printing away while desperately needed fresh inks are in transit. A
couple of my CIS bottles are out of ink, but there is still ink in the tubes
and the cartridges. When the inks do arrive do I need to do anything special
to try to force the air through the cartridge, or should I just add the new
ink and start printing?

I'm hoping perhaps the sponge in the cartridge somehow allows air to
disperse with ink before it exits the port, making air in the system less
than critical. Am I sadly naive?

Todd

Todd,

I spoke today with a company who sell a 'competing' ink supply system ;)
They apparently ship the carts pre-filled with ink, and tell users just to
stick the ink lines in the right bottles. Yes... their bulk ink system is
therefore implicitly being used with a lot of air in it. I would therefore
think the NMC CIS would survive equally well.

I must admit, for your situation, the easy solution does seem more
attractive than the alternative (which I'll suggest some options for you if
you'd like)

Nij

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Flashner [mailto:tflash@...]
>
> I'm printing away while desperately needed fresh inks are in transit. A
> couple of my CIS bottles are out of ink, but there is still ink
> in the tubes
> and the cartridges. When the inks do arrive do I need to do
> anything special
> to try to force the air through the cartridge, or should I just
> add the new
> ink and start printing?
>
> I'm hoping perhaps the sponge in the cartridge somehow allows air to
> disperse with ink before it exits the port, making air in the system less
> than critical. Am I sadly naive?
>
> Todd

In a message dated 11/29/2001 8:32:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
tflash@... writes:

<< 'm printing away while desperately needed fresh inks are in transit. A
 couple of my CIS bottles are out of ink, but there is still ink in the tubes
 and the cartridges. When the inks do arrive do I need to do anything special
 to try to force the air through the cartridge, or should I just add the new
 ink and start printing?
 
 I'm hoping perhaps the sponge in the cartridge somehow allows air to
 disperse with ink before it exits the port, making air in the system less
 than critical. Am I sadly naive?
  >>
Todd,
I recently had the experience of having air in one of my lines due to a low 
ink situation I didn't notice. I just printed blocks of the color that was in 
question until the line was completely full again. I think there is enough 
room in the sponge to get away with this once, maybe twice. Hopefully I will 
not have to find out. 
I did try to raise the ink bottle higher than the line to dump it in (duh), 
but of course there is a vacuum there and it doesn't do anything.
Good luck,
George J Kunze