Digital BW, The Print

I am needing to change from matt black to photo black ink cartridges 
on my R2400, in order to try printing some digital negatives.
My query is whether I can just swop them back when I need matt black 
again? Do I need to somehow seal up the matt black cartridge while it 
is out of the printer, or does it seal itself? I assume they must be 
interchangeable as required, and not to be ditched once removed.
Many thanks
John Fontana

-I always seal the cartridge in an air tight baggie with the dispenser 
portion titled down.



-- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john794552" 
<jwillyfontana@...> wrote:
>
> I am needing to change from matt black to photo black ink cartridges 
> on my R2400, in order to try printing some digital negatives.
> My query is whether I can just swop them back when I need matt black 
> again? Do I need to somehow seal up the matt black cartridge while 
it 

> is out of the printer, or does it seal itself? I assume they must be 
> interchangeable as required, and not to be ditched once removed.
> Many thanks
> John Fontana
>

John, the black carts are interchangeable and reusable. However, your 
printer will go through a charging cycle of all inks when you change 
carts. While I have never seen the definitive figures, I always figure 
that this process uses around 10% of the ink in each cart. I change 
the blacks as infrequently as possible and ususally have a bunch of 
images to print when I do. No need to seal the carts, but storing them 
in the same position as when installed is a good idea



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john794552" 
<jwillyfontana@...> wrote:
>
> I am needing to change from matt black to photo black ink cartridges 
> on my R2400, in order to try printing some digital negatives.
> My query is whether I can just swop them back when I need matt black 
> again? Do I need to somehow seal up the matt black cartridge while 
it 

> is out of the printer, or does it seal itself? I assume they must be 
> interchangeable as required, and not to be ditched once removed.
> Many thanks
> John Fontana
>

>>While I have never seen the definitive figures, I always figure that this
process uses around 10% of the ink in each cart. <<

For what it is worth, in post
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/message/77165,
Nick H. quoted the following information from his copy of the R2400 service
manual:

"Cartridge replacement: 0.386 gram per color"

He also quoted the other figures for the cleaning cycles.

Doug
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Thanks for the replies. New cartridge installed, and one step further 
up on the steep learning curve of producing digital negatives
Cheers
John
-- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john794552" 
<jwillyfontana@...> wrote:
>
> I am needing to change from matt black to photo black ink cartridges 
> on my R2400, in order to try printing some digital negatives.
> My query is whether I can just swop them back when I need matt black 
> again? Do I need to somehow seal up the matt black cartridge while 
it 

> is out of the printer, or does it seal itself? I assume they must be 
> interchangeable as required, and not to be ditched once removed.
> Many thanks
> John Fontana
>