COnverTing The ink In my CisS

[markolo25]

right now i have dye ink inside my printer. my ink running out, i was thinking to going to pigment ink. i just have a question on how to convert. do i just mix the pigment ink with dye or can i just wait for it to run out of ink or do i have to clean the cis before converting. tHANkS

 

[mikling]

Best way is to get rid of the dye and flush out of the whole system. You can take shortcuts, depends on the accuracy and whether or not you're going to profile or not.....and the compatibility of the new ink. Remember pigment always has some settling so unless you use a lot of ink constantly a CISS and pigment for a light user is not optimal.

 

[markolo25]

uhm should i flush it out by alcohol, water, windex. or will it flush out itself when it runs out of ink.

 

[mikling]

The likelihood of using out all the ink concurrently is slim, very slim. Water and removing as much as possible by whatever means is good enough.

 

[markolo25]

uhm is this a good idea to flush. put water in reservoir after empty ink print a lot of pages to clean tubes then just rinse off ink in reservoir.

 

[mikling]

No you will need to clean out the cartridges as well of the water. Just printing alone will take a ton of time. You need to take the system out and then proceed to remove the liquids from the whole system. Why do you want to use pigment ink and what printer is this going into?

 

[markolo25]

cx9400f its oem ink is pigment. in my backpack i keep my cold waterbottle with my papers i don't like the fact that the dye ink fades.

 

[qwertydude]

Pigment ink and dye ink is generally incompatible with each other. You need to rinse out all the ink and also let the water completely dry out. A good way to see how incompatible pigments and dyes are is called the egg yolk test. Take a small puddle of yellow dye ink and put a drop of pigment ink in the center, the inks will not mix even if agitated. An ink cartridge with the sponge soaked in dye ink won't allow the pigment to flow since they don't mix and you'll end up mostly sucking out the dye ink in the sponge while the pigment in the reservoir stays put.