Digital BW, The Print

Nick H. Nugent wrote:
> I forgot to mention that these spongeless carts DO have valves  :)
> Can you believe it, valves on the 1160 carts? This is what that makes
> cart swapping for this printer is now a breeze.

...and where do you get these miracle carts, Nick? 

(I asked MIS about them by email some days ago, but they haven't responded).

Peter Marquis-Kyle
www.marquis-kyle.com.au

Ebay. I heard from another member that MIS will not be carrying
spongeless carts for older printers and the 1160 is one of them.

--nick

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter
Marquis-Kyle" <peter@m...> wrote:

> Nick H. Nugent wrote:
> > I forgot to mention that these spongeless carts DO have valves  :)
> > Can you believe it, valves on the 1160 carts? This is what that 
> > makes cart swapping for this printer is now a breeze.
> 
> ...and where do you get these miracle carts, Nick? 
> 
> (I asked MIS about them by email some days ago, but they haven't 
> responded).
> 
> Peter Marquis-Kyle
> www.marquis-kyle.com.au

Nick H. Nugent wrote:
> Ebay. I heard from another member that MIS will not be carrying
> spongeless carts for older printers and the 1160 is one of them.

I see ebay listings from a seller called sales_maximum. Was that your supplier?

Peter Marquis-Kyle
www.marquis-kyle.com.au

Yes. But please refer to earlier posts on a modification you may need
to perform once you get them. It involves putting a barrier between
the air vent tube and the damping chamber entry. Let me know once
you're ready to work on them.

--nick

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter
Marquis-Kyle" <peter@m...> wrote:
> Nick H. Nugent wrote:
> > Ebay. I heard from another member that MIS will not be carrying
> > spongeless carts for older printers and the 1160 is one of them.
> 
> I see ebay listings from a seller called sales_maximum. Was that
your supplier?

> 
> Peter Marquis-Kyle
> www.marquis-kyle.com.au

Thanks Nick.

I must have missed those earlier posts, and some searching in the archives
hasn't turned them up -- could you tell me a message number please?

The ebay vendor's listing says he ships only to North America. So my first
hurdle is getting him to ship to me in Australia -- I'm waiting for his response
to this request.

Thanks for your help.

Peter Marquis-Kyle


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick H. Nugent" <nghin@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 2:49 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: 1160 spongeless carts (was Airbrush makes great ink
mixing tool


Yes. But please refer to earlier posts on a modification you may need
to perform once you get them. It involves putting a barrier between
the air vent tube and the damping chamber entry. Let me know once
you're ready to work on them.

--nick

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter
Marquis-Kyle" <peter@m...> wrote:
> Nick H. Nugent wrote:
> > Ebay. I heard from another member that MIS will not be carrying
> > spongeless carts for older printers and the 1160 is one of them.
>
> I see ebay listings from a seller called sales_maximum. Was that
your supplier?

>
> Peter Marquis-Kyle
> www.marquis-kyle.com.au

Hello Peter,

Actually I posted this in the Epson Printers group. Sorry about that.
By the way it seems the search function of yahoogroups seems to be
much improved now. It searches quite far back.

I hope he's willing to ship them to Australia.

Here's the excerpt of the post:

===========================================================
The Maximum Depot carts can be used either with or without
a CIS, and they work great, and cheap. But there is a
gotcha with the Max Depot carts. I had to perform a little
hack to each ink chamber so they work properly.

I'm talking about the carts for the Epson 1160, not 1280 or
others. Maybe for the 1280 they are very similar or the same
as the ones available at inksupply.com. If so they're ok.
But with the 1160 it's a different story.

In the 1160 spongeless carts the vent tube and the port that
draws ink from the reservoir into the damping chambers are
so close together that bubbles that leave the vent tube get
sucked into the chambers. After printing a few pages or
cleaning cycles the damping chambers get filled with foam.
These ports are less than 1/4 inch apart.

The hack involves making a slit on the cart right between
the vent and the inner ink port and insert a small thin
piece of plastic to break the path then use epoxy to
seal the slit back up. After this hack the Max Depot
carts work amazingly well. And they have the nice poppet
valves which were not in the original OEM or widely
available sponge-filled aftermarket carts.
...
Also since I got these wonderful carts now I removed
all CIS from the printers. These carts make it so
easy for refilling and switching between inksets
with virtually no cleaning cycles except for
printing some purge patterns.
===========================================================

--nick

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter
Marquis-Kyle" <peter@m...> wrote:

> Thanks Nick.
> 
> I must have missed those earlier posts, and some searching in the 
> archives hasn't turned them up -- could you tell me a message number
> please?
> 
> The ebay vendor's listing says he ships only to North America. So
> my first hurdle is getting him to ship to me in Australia -- I'm 
> waiting for his response to this request.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Peter Marquis-Kyle

"Nick H. Nugent" <nghin@...> wrote:
> Ebay. I heard from another member that MIS will not be 
>carrying
> spongeless carts for older printers and the 1160 is one 
>of them.
> 
> --nick

Me, I called about two months ago and was so informed by 
an unnamed female associate.  Perhaps someone interested 
could call and confirm this and post.

Phil Morse