Digital BW, The Print

I will be setting up a 1270 (Ebay auction) with a CIS (inkjetart.com) 
loaded with MIS VM's (MIS of course).

I recall reports of, in a few instances, wrong ink bottles being sent 
and, perhaps needing to check them before installation...by using a Q-
tip on Kleenex to confirm they are different densities?  I haven't 
recieved my orders yet (all will be in Tues/Wed) and hope there are 
instructions with each (I did check that option at inkjetart.com for 
the CFS).

Have we, as a group, developed a checklist of things to make sure 
installation goes smoothly? :-)

I will scour through the archives & web in the meantime.

Thanks for your consideration.

Cleavis

Cleavis,

The recommendations I send out in addition to the NMC CIS' instructions are
just about as follows:


Check you have all the parts
Check you have all the inks, they are from the right set, and for the right
printer (some inks m'fers have different colour sets for different printer
models)
Do the job when you will not be disturbed ... only have one ink bottle out
at a time
Make sure you put the right ink in the right ink-line
Test the pump before use - pumping action will result in air being forced
out of the side valve on the push cycle. Carefully put thumb over end nozzle
and pull; you should feel the extra pressure, and releasing the syringe
handle will cause it to spring back. Handle pump with care.
Do not over-pump the vacuum on the cart - follow pumping instructions to the
letter
Make sure you put the right ink into the right line
MAKE SURE YOU PUT THE RIGHT INK INTO THE RIGHT LINE!


Most of the above instructions refer directly to parts supplied originally
by NoMoreCarts, a different system may not have the same type of pump etc.

Hope this helps,

Best regards,
Nij

Nigel Rheam
MWORDS Limited   www.mwords.co.uk   Digital Fine Art

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lyonscox [mailto:lyonscox@...]
> Sent: 17 February 2002 02:25
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Setting up a CFS - check list?
>
>
> I will be setting up a 1270 (Ebay auction) with a CIS (inkjetart.com)
> loaded with MIS VM's (MIS of course).
>
> I recall reports of, in a few instances, wrong ink bottles being sent
> and, perhaps needing to check them before installation...by using a Q-
> tip on Kleenex to confirm they are different densities?  I haven't
> recieved my orders yet (all will be in Tues/Wed) and hope there are
> instructions with each (I did check that option at inkjetart.com for
> the CFS).
>
> Have we, as a group, developed a checklist of things to make sure
> installation goes smoothly? :-)
>
> I will scour through the archives & web in the meantime.
>
> Thanks for your consideration.
>
> Cleavis
>
>
>
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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "lyonscox" <lyonscox@m...>
wrote:
> I recall reports of, in a few instances, wrong ink bottles being
sent 
> and, perhaps needing to check them before installation...

If you order your ink from MIS, be sure to look at the label on the
bottles to make 
sure it's the ink that you ordered. I was seconds away from screwing
up a new CIS 
when I just happened to glance at the label on the ink bottles and
noticed that they 
had sent me the FS inkset, not the VM inkset that I had ordered! From
your 
comment, it looks like they've done this on more than one occasion.

> by using a Q-
> tip on Kleenex to confirm they are different densities?  I haven't 
> recieved my orders yet (all will be in Tues/Wed) and hope there are 
> instructions with each (I did check that option at inkjetart.com
for 
> the CFS).

I ordered my CIS from Inkjetart and received no instructions... just
all the parts 
thrown into a box. Everything was fine, of course, but it would have
been nice to 
receive printed instructions. I used the instructions listed on their
web site without 
problems.
> 
> Have we, as a group, developed a checklist of things to make sure 
> installation goes smoothly? :-)
> 

One thing that I noticed is that everytime I turn my printer (870)
on, it goes through 
a charging cycle. This sometimes leaves some ink deposits on my first
print. What I 
do now is to first run a nozzle check, which usually cleans things
up. Other than 
that, I'm very happy with the way my prints are looking. Guess my
darkroom is 
going to get a little dusty ;-).

Ed

If the whole inkset is wrong, then there was clearly a mistake, but I 
often get ink from them with the "wrong" black. The blacks are the 
same and they seem to just ship using whichever label they have in 
stock.

Tom O'Connell

TomOC@...
www.ThomasOConnell.com




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "ednmetrodc" <ed@h...> 
wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "lyonscox" <lyonscox@m...>
> wrote:
> > I recall reports of, in a few instances, wrong ink bottles being
> sent 
> > and, perhaps needing to check them before installation...
> 
> If you order your ink from MIS, be sure to look at the label on the
> bottles to make 
> sure it's the ink that you ordered. I was seconds away from screwing
> up a new CIS 
> when I just happened to glance at the label on the ink bottles and
> noticed that they 
> had sent me the FS inkset, not the VM inkset that I had ordered! 
From
> your 
> comment, it looks like they've done this on more than one occasion.
> 
> > by using a Q-
> > tip on Kleenex to confirm they are different densities?  I 
haven't 
> > recieved my orders yet (all will be in Tues/Wed) and hope there 
are 
> > instructions with each (I did check that option at inkjetart.com
> for 
> > the CFS).
> 
> I ordered my CIS from Inkjetart and received no instructions... just
> all the parts 
> thrown into a box. Everything was fine, of course, but it would have
> been nice to 
> receive printed instructions. I used the instructions listed on 
their
> web site without 
> problems.
> > 
> > Have we, as a group, developed a checklist of things to make sure 
> > installation goes smoothly? :-)
> > 
> 
> One thing that I noticed is that everytime I turn my printer (870)
> on, it goes through 
> a charging cycle. This sometimes leaves some ink deposits on my 
first

> print. What I 
> do now is to first run a nozzle check, which usually cleans things
> up. Other than 
> that, I'm very happy with the way my prints are looking. Guess my
> darkroom is 
> going to get a little dusty ;-).
> 
> Ed