Digital BW, The Print

Just install a MIS CFS with VM quadtones in a new 1160.  Nozzles 
checked out perfectly with the Epsin supplied carts, but now have a 
problem with the new MIS ink/carts.  Printed out about 30 purge sheets 
and about 20 cleaning cycles.  Missing a few bars in one head check 
(upper right had test).  Am getting some minor banding in my shadows, 
otherwise looks promising.  Using the Roark workflow.

How can I fix this?

thanks,

mark

Mark,
I sympathize with you beeing impatient. But what you are doing is 
just wasting ink, paper and time. 
Be patient and let  the combo sit for a night after having applied 
some drops of windex on the parking pad.  There is probably 
some air in the print head which needs some time to vanish.
You´re sure to have fixed the carts properly?
Bernd

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "markhahn2000" 
<markhahn2000@y...> wrote:
> Just install a MIS CFS with VM quadtones in a new 1160.  
Nozzles 
> checked out perfectly with the Epsin supplied carts, but now 
have a 
> problem with the new MIS ink/carts.  Printed out about 30 purge 
sheets 
> and about 20 cleaning cycles.  Missing a few bars in one head 
check 
> (upper right had test).  Am getting some minor banding in my 
shadows, 

> otherwise looks promising.  Using the Roark workflow.
> 
> How can I fix this?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> mark

I guess I wasn't clear, but I did the purging and cleaning in three 
steps over a 24 hr period, so impatience wasn't the problem.  I called 
Bob at MIS and he suggested that I suck out 100ml of ink from the 
offending cart, squirt the ink back into the bottle and try again.  
Two cleaning cycles later is was perfect.  Bob said that that 
procedure was a kind of catch-all fix for all kinds of CFS problems.  
Yes, I did end up wasting lots of ink, but that is the beauty of a 
CIS/CFS, there is still plenty of ink left.  The banding was caused by 
me stupidly having the wrong paper selected... now it is looking 
pretty good... just have to get my monitor/printer calibrated better.

Also waiting to get a replacement disk for SilverFast... anyone having 
good luck using that to reduce the grain aliasing?

thanks,

mark

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "ruhrfoto" <ruhrfoto@y...> 
wrote:

> Mark,
> I sympathize with you beeing impatient. But what you are doing is 
> just wasting ink, paper and time. 
> Be patient and let  the combo sit for a night after having applied 
> some drops of windex on the parking pad.  There is probably 
> some air in the print head which needs some time to vanish.
> You´re sure to have fixed the carts properly?
> Bernd
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "markhahn2000" 
> <markhahn2000@y...> wrote:
> > Just install a MIS CFS with VM quadtones in a new 1160.  
> Nozzles 
> > checked out perfectly with the Epsin supplied carts, but now 
> have a 
> > problem with the new MIS ink/carts.  Printed out about 30 purge 
> sheets 
> > and about 20 cleaning cycles.  Missing a few bars in one head 
> check 
> > (upper right had test).  Am getting some minor banding in my 
> shadows, 
> > otherwise looks promising.  Using the Roark workflow.
> > 
> > How can I fix this?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > mark