My Lazarus printers... :)

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I've got a small selection of C84, C86 and D88's that have been knocking about the house after they were retired (foolishly) from my schools in favour of the Canon iP4200's and unfortunately the CIS kits I'd created were clogged silly when I realised my mistake and tried to return.

Well, with money short and budgets being slashed I've been slowly trying to resurrect them and as of today, two of the stock clogged units are now back up and running and feeding pigment ink via another of my homebrew CIS units... and not an equal pressure system in sight!

Took three weeks and finally me losing my patience with the magenta clog to fix them both but I have to say I'm wondering what on earth made me decide to abandon them given the quality of the output... Speed and paper capacity may have been the primary reason but as old reliable workhorses you really can't beat them now.

 

[mikling]

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you're using a normal siphon system I suppose? for those CIS homebrews?

 

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you're using a normal siphon system I suppose? for those CIS homebrews?

Dip tube style - bottle reservoirs... which I think is pretty much what you mean...

I've had a similar system on a C84 in school now for over 6 years and it's just a case of agitating the reservoir bottles every once in a while..

Oh and the open end of the dip tube is around 7mm above the bottom of the bottle so you don't get so many problems with pigment settling and being sucked into the cartridges/printhead.

 

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Those printers are all Epsons, aren't they?

(Wouldn't want any one to think that old Canons are good with CIS.)

 

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Those printers are all Epsons, aren't they?

(Wouldn't want any one to think that old Canons are good with CIS.)

Correct... All Epsons... I wouldn't dream of using a dip tube reservoir with a Canon... One millibar of pressure change on a Canon and the whole thing throws it's toys out of the pram*


*strange how baby metaphors seem to be so prevalent in my mind now.

 

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websnail wrote:- I wouldn't dream of using a dip tube reservoir with a Canon... One millibar of pressure change on a Canon and the whole thing throws it's toys out of the pram*

I use the dip tube style reservoir system on all my canon printers and havent lost one toy yet from using it.

 

[mikling]

Just finished my homebrew dip tube on my RX580 today. I got hundreds of feet on ribbon tubing and hundreds of connectors and elbows.

 

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Just finished my homebrew dip tube on my RX580 today. I got hundreds of feet on ribbon tubing and hundreds of connectors and elbows.

Hopefully not all used on the same CIS ..

*visions of a CIS running three times around the room before feeding into the printer*