Got a clog on photocyan only

Tin Ho

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Ah... I suddenly understand what you are saying. Gees, that's very smart to collect and reuse the waste ink. The waste ink is a mix of all colors of ink so it is as back as it should be. That's an excellent idea. But you do know that the waste ink is a mix of dye and pigmented ink, not 100% pigmented? It sure will work in a PG cartridge.

Any way, back to the original problem. I had actually seen a printer that each color channel took turn to stop printing. When I saw your thread it sounded very familiar to me. It turned out that it was a really typical leaking problem often happened when ink cartridges are refilled. There was too much ink in the sponge.
 

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Tin Ho said:
Ah... I suddenly understand what you are saying. Gees, that's very smart to collect and reuse the waste ink. The waste ink is a mix of all colors of ink so it is as back as it should be. That's an excellent idea. But you do know that the waste ink is a mix of dye and pigmented ink, not 100% pigmented? It sure will work in a PG cartridge.

Any way, back to the original problem. I had actually seen a printer that each color channel took turn to stop printing. When I saw your thread it sounded very familiar to me. It turned out that it was a really typical leaking problem often happened when ink cartridges are refilled. There was too much ink in the sponge.
I fill with vacuum by turning cartridge upside down and using vent hole to fill. Then I squeeze it to remove ink from maze part.
I tried to fill using the exit port and that gets good results, you do not need to squeeze it to remove ink.

So it could be overfilling :rolleyes:

I placed a drop of ammonia and ran cleaning cycles and printed nozzle patterns and cyan purge pages. When I look at the service print is the same as last one I posted. The nozzles work but spray ink in wrong place.

I was thinking to use scotch tape (magic tape) that leaves no trace to try and remove something that misdirects the flow?
 

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test digital ph meter and in most case you probably must have alkaline cyan that.
must respond to alkaline solution . refer Arthur's entlitch .

something else you must make acidic solution if your cyan ph ink be under x<7.
that was easy , if you buy ph meter and test it all ink set alone in little container for test first
 
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