Digital BW, The Print

Tom wrote:

>On both my 1160 and 1270 there is almost no ink on the left hand pad
>at all, so I doubt that there would ever be enough to "drain".

Maybe something in my constant ink cartridge changing triggers the action on
the left pad.

>On the parking pad on the right, it seems you can put an awful lot of
>ink in there from cleaning cycles etc... Maybe that is what he is
>referring to?

No, we talked about that one also.  The repair person said that the printers
have a pump that pulls the inks through that pad, so there is much less
chance of a problem on the right side.

Of course, this is all just one repair person's opinion, and he was not very
familiar with 3rd party inks.  The relative size of our little market, in
fact, is reflected in his having no knowledge of the "quad" printing inks.

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:

> Maybe something in my constant ink cartridge changing triggers the 
action on
> the left pad.
> 

Paul-

I wonder if this is from the various test prints you run? I've 
noticed that ink sometimes gets everywhere if the output size of the 
paper is not the same as the image size... So that the heads are 
moving over the carriage where there is, in fact, no paper.

The only time I can actually see the print heads go over to the left 
pad is when you move it over there to change the cartridges.

tom


> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com

> I wonder if this is from the various test prints you run? I've 
> noticed that ink sometimes gets everywhere if the output size 
of the 
> paper is not the same as the image size... So that the heads 
are 
> moving over the carriage where there is, in fact, no paper.
> 
> The only time I can actually see the print heads go over to the 
left 
> pad is when you move it over there to change the cartridges.
> 
> tom

On my 1160, I have noticed that the head makes a brief stop at 
the left pad every 30 seconds or so when printing at 1440 dpi. I 
think it does this less frequently (if at all) when printing at lower 
resolutions.

Jacques Cornell